Trainee Project Manager Apprenticeship

Job Title: Trainee Project Manager Apprenticeship

Location: Leeds

Assessment Centre Dates: June

Salary From: £28,800

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the role:

The Trainee Project Manager role is responsible for supporting the core areas of Change Management: Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Management. You will work within a supportive team and get involved in a range of different tasks such as supporting small, localised projects (or specific small projects within programmes or larger projects).

Key responsibilities/what you’ll do:

• Following a defined development path for Change Management – Including PMO and Project Management.
• Responsible for the delivery of small projects and initiatives with appropriate support.
• Learn how to and then facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, deliverables and success criteria.
• Deliver initiative/project outcomes to meet the defined success criteria.
• Follow processes to ensure documentation, reports and plans are relevant, appropriate to the complexity, accurate updated and complete.
• Control project scope and any changes using change management processes.
• Ensure project budgets are tracked and managed and that any identified deviations are escalated.
• Monitor progress against agreed milestones and provide regular updates to all stakeholders.
• Management of risks ensuring that each risk has an owner, clearly defined impact, and mitigating actions.
• Appropriate escalation of risks and issues to mentor, sponsor and stakeholders.
• Building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships with peers and line managers.

About the apprenticeship:

As a Trainee Project Manager, you will develop the technical knowledge plus the professional skills and behaviours to work within our exciting and fast-paced Change team, gaining valuable work experience plus achieving a qualification through a structured apprenticeship programme to kick-start your career.

Through the level 4 Associate Project Manager apprenticeship, you will learn and grow technical knowledge in the following areas:

• Project management fundamentals such as scheduling, budgeting, and cost control.
• Business case and benefits, planning and scope, and quality.
• Resources and procurement.
• Risks and issues.
• Stakeholder communication, leadership, and teamwork.
• Governance and methodologies.

By the end of the apprenticeship, you will achieve your Level 4 Associate Project Manager apprenticeship. Typically, the apprenticeship will take around 18 months to complete.

Requirements

To apply for this role, you will need:

• To be 18 years old as of 1st September 2026.
• Be a UK/EEA citizen or have lived in the UK/EEA continuously for the last 3 years.
• To be eligible to work in the UK and not in full-time education.
• Maths and English GCSE (or equivalent) grades A* to C (new grades 9 to 4).
• To have achieved, or predicted to achieve in 2026, a minimum of 48 UCAS points at A-level or an equivalent (e.g., BTEC qualification). Candidates who do not meet these requirements but have workplace experience will be individually evaluated.
• You must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level in a similar subject.
• A basic understanding of project delivery lifecycles (both waterfall and agile).

Find out how many points your qualifications are worth using the UCAS Tariff calculator: www.ucas.com/ucas/tariff-calculator

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – provided by Bupa
• Staff discounts on our investment products
• Personal & well-being fund – supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail discounts – savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary flexible benefits – tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.

interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.