About the Skills Programme

The Occupational Skills Programme Project Management Facilitator (Project Management for Non-Project Managers) (SP-250710) is a QCTO skills programme at NQF Level 6 (60 credits, 600 notional hours; curriculum 121905-000-01-00). It is for people who are asked to help a project succeed without being its formally appointed project manager — facilitating the development of project plans, helping to identify resources, keeping stakeholders aligned, and monitoring progress, risks and obstacles so that the project is delivered.

Most of the people you will work with on a project do not report to you. This programme teaches the planning and control techniques of project management, and how to use them — together with information, facilitation and influence — when you have no authority to instruct.

What you will learn

• What makes something a project, the six constraints, delivery approaches, process groups, leadership, ethics and project technology
• Scope: requirements, the scope statement, the work breakdown structure, change control, verification and stakeholders
• Time: defining and sequencing activities, estimating (including three-point PERT), the critical path, scheduling, resource optimisation and schedule control
• Cost: the cost baseline, contingency and management reserve, cost change control, earned value and forecasting
• Quality: planning, assurance and control, quality tools and the cost of quality
• Risk: writing, rating and responding to project risks
• Applying it in practice: building and controlling a schedule and budget, and the soft skills that get decisions made

Who should enrol?

• Managers, supervisors and specialists who coordinate projects alongside their normal role
• Team leaders and coordinators who support a project manager
• Anyone who must plan, track and report on project work without the title of project manager

Entry requirement: an NQF Level 5 qualification or demonstrated equivalent competence, with English at that level and numeracy sufficient to work with percentages, ratios and simple algebra. Recognition of Prior Learning for access is available and must be applied for before the programme starts.

Certificates

Tonex Certificate of Completion: pass the post-course assessment with 70% or more. This is a Tonex certificate and carries no NQF credits.

QCTO Skills Programme certificate (60 credits, NQF Level 6): also requires the twenty-seven workbook activities, the Combined Knowledge Module Summative Assessment, eleven observed practical activities across PM-01, PM-04 and PM-05, and the supervised Final Integrated Supervised Assessment (FISA). Tonex, as the QCTO-accredited provider, conducts the FISA and submits learner results to the QCTO for approval for certification. These assessments are in the separate course Practical Assessment and FISA – Project Management Facilitator SP.