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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ETC Awards Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and ETC Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ETC Awards Limited.

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01What it is

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These are the units ETC Awards Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Commercial Awareness and Management Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
This unit covers commercial management techniques and their application to project control. You'll learn to analyse, recommend, and prepare project control information, as well as evaluate contract information and identify key requirements for project control plans.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand commercial management techniques and their application to project control.
  • Critically analyse, recommend and prepare project control information.
  • Understand how to evaluate and interpret contract information and identify requirements that should be incorporated into project control plans.
  • Understand how to analyse bid, tender, and commercially contract information through the lens of project controls.
  • Analyse project control data effectively to support claim management and dispute resolution.
  • Understand the communication processes related to project control data and their importance.
Monitoring Control and Reporting Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of project control progress monitoring techniques and schedule management. The unit includes schedule updates, change management, evaluation of project data systems, and the impact of coding structures on reporting and data analysis.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand project controls progress monitoring techniques
  • Undertake schedule update including schedule change management
  • Critically evaluate the project data system in use
  • Understand the impact of breakdown and coding structures on reporting
  • Investigate and develop earned value management as a comprehensive project control system
  • Critically analyse project progress data and trends
Project Control, Governance & PMO Environment Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
It teaches you to understand governance principles in Project, Programme and Portfolio Management (P3M) and the project control processes that support the Project Management Office (PMO). You'll examine governance roles, responsibilities, and the impact of governance on project outcomes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand governance principles in P3M
  • Understand the project control processes that underpin and support the PMO and identify good practices
  • Understand the project control processes that underpin and support key governance roles and responsibilities in the PSG and boards
  • Know the required project control tools and processes that support the function and purpose of PMO
  • Understand the interconnections between project control key principles and project governance and assurance
  • Understand the key governance regulations, processes and ethical behaviour and the required support from project control
Risk Management Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
You'll explore key project tools and techniques for effective risk planning, response, and management. The unit covers different risk management strategies, the influence of organisational culture on risk appetite, and critical evaluation of risk factors associated with Enterprise and P3M.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand key project tools and techniques for effective risk planning, responses and management
  • Understand how different strategies to risk and risk management are shaped
  • Define risk appetite
  • Critically evaluate key risk factors associated with Enterprise and P3M
  • Understand change management and project control processes
  • Formulate risk strategies for effective project control, change control and risk management
Supply Chain and Procurement Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of various Supply Chain Management (SCM) approaches and the integrated nature of supply chain processes. You'll critically evaluate supply chain behaviours, efficiencies, the role of technology, and the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility in sourcing and distribution.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand various approaches to Supply Chain Management (SCM).
  • Understand the integrated nature of supply chain processes and their relationship to core competencies.
  • Analyse the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in sourcing and distribution channels.
  • Provide a critical evaluation of Supply Chain behaviours, efficiencies, and the role of technology.
  • Provide a critical analysis of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in managing performance effectively within the Supply Chain.
  • Understand the role of Total Quality Management (TQM) in improving supply chain processes and management for successful delivery of P3M.
Work Based Project 2 Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
You'll learn to critically analyse, recommend, and prepare project control information for a Work Based Project (WBP). The unit also covers risk identification and assessment within a WBP, and the integration of risk management and change control with other project control processes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Critically analyse, recommend and prepare project control information for a Work Based Project (WBP).
  • Identify and assess risks occurring in the selected WBP/Case study.
  • Identify tools for integrating risk management and change control with other project control processes.
  • Understand the link between project control key principles, project governance/assurance and how these are supported by project control.
  • Know the key governance regulations and processes relevant to project control.
  • Research and critically analyse project progress data.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Apply quality standards to support relationship management in procurement and supply

    Standard
  • Commission and implement projects to develop systems technology to improve the efficiency of procurement and supply

    Standard
  • Commission projects to develop the supply chain

    Standard
  • Identify, analyse and plan responses to project risks

    Standard
  • Manage projects to develop the supply chain

    Standard
  • Manage risks in an IT project

    Standard
  • Plan projects to develop the supply chain

    Standard
  • Select suppliers for the supply chain

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 38 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Lead Enterprise Risk Manager

This work can lead into director-level risk roles, a chief risk officer position, or a specialist path designing risk models and systems.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ETC Awards Limited rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Commercial Awareness and ManagementMonitoring Control and ReportingProject Control, Governance & PMO EnvironmentRisk ManagementSupply Chain and ProcurementWork Based Project 2

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Project Control, Governance & PMO Environment” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Project Control, Governance & PMO Environment” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Monitoring Control and Reporting” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Commercial Awareness and Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

What you leave holding

The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them

Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
ETCAL Level 5 Advance Diploma in Project Controls
  • Apply quality standards to support relationship management in procurement and supply
  • Commission and implement projects to develop systems technology to improve the efficiency of procurement and supply
  • Commission projects to develop the supply chain
  • Identify, analyse and plan responses to project risks
  • Manage projects to develop the supply chain
  • Manage risks in an IT project
  • Plan projects to develop the supply chain
  • Select suppliers for the supply chain
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Commercial Awareness and Management, one of this qualification's own units.

Commercial Awareness and Management Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit covers commercial management techniques and their application to project control. Learners will develop skills to analyse, recommend, and prepare project control information, as well as evaluate contract information and identify key requirements for project control plans.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for ETCAL Level 5 Advance Diploma in Project Controls

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.

  1. Commercial Awareness and Management
  2. Monitoring Control and Reporting
  3. Project Control, Governance & PMO Environment
  4. Risk Management
  5. Supply Chain and Procurement
  6. Work Based Project 2
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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