Graduate Certificate of Project Management

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Qualification

Postgraduate
Duration

8 months part-time
Units

4
Start Date

Mar, Jul, Nov

Overview of the course

If you are looking to upskill your project management abilities to take on large-scale or more challenging projects, consider the Graduate Certificate of Project Management.

You will gain a foundation in project management theory, with a knowledge of both traditional and agile methodologies and how to apply them in real workplace contexts. The course will help you to build confidence and technical expertise, as well as developing greater capability to deal with the management challenges of complex projects.

Coursework emphasises the value of clear communication and comprehensive planning, equipping you with a practical toolbox of skills and strategies that can be applied in diverse situations. You will develop the ability to anticipate complications ahead of time and devise creative solutions, informed by the particular aims and constraints of a project.

Completing the Graduate Certificate of Project Management is also a pathway to further study and professional development with a Graduate Diploma of Project Management.

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What are the entry criteria?

Entry requirements

To gain entry into this course, applicants must meet the following entry criteria:

A recognised bachelor degree in a related discipline

A recognised bachelor degree in any discipline PLUS a minimum of two years equivalent full-time relevant professional experience

A minimum of three (3) years equivalent full-time relevant professional experience

Speak to one of your Course Consultants to find out more.

If you are applying as an international student, please view the English Language Requirements.

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Career & Learning

Career opportunities

Project Manager

Plan, budget, oversee and document all aspects of the specific project you are working on.
Business Analyst

Analyses an organisation or business domain and documents its business, processes or systems.
IT Project Manager

Methodically plan the scope and direction of IT projects, ensuring they reach completion in a timely fashion.
Marketing Project Manager

Oversee the marketing team in their pursuit of project-related goals, using a variety of marketing techniques.

What you will learn

Project Management

Successfully manage people and resources in order to complete projects in a results-driven environment.
Leadership

Become a leader with a proficient skill set and the ability to communicate effectively, using sound management strategies to ensure people work to the best of their ability to achieve project-specific goals.
Problem-solving

Solve problems with ingenuity and a solid foundation in the real-life application of project management theory.
Collaboration

Effective collaboration necessitates flexible leadership – learn to collaborate and allocate resources in a collaborative environment in order to achieve project-related targets.

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Course Units

Strategic Project Management (INF70005)
Strategic Project Management

INF70005
About this unit

This unit is a thought-provoking introduction to project management, with an emphasis on teaching students to see the big picture of organisational strategy so as to gain competitive advantage where possible. Project management principles and best practice are tied into the larger context of an organisation’s strategic objectives. Students learn to critically analyse and evaluate various strategies in order to implement effective solutions to existing and anticipated project-related challenges.

Content
- Project management principles and methodologies
- Issues in contemporary project management
- Project management solutions in an organisational context
- Competitive advantage
- Organisational strategy
- Strategic objectives
- Stakeholder management
- Professional communication and leadership.
This unit is found in the Graduate Certificate of Project Management and the Graduate Diploma of Project Management.

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The Risk Management Spectrum (PRM60003)
The Risk Management Spectrum

PRM60003
Unit code: PRM60003
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

About this unit:

Students will learn about both conventional and disruptive risk frameworks in the context of an increasingly interconnected and wired world where effective communication is essential. Stakeholder management is a core focus, as Project Managers frequently assume team leader and managerial responsibilities. Students learn to effectively gauge various business risks and, in doing so, develop non-linear problem-solving strategies to resolve complications in complex environments.

Content:
- Conventional and disruptive risk frameworks
- Risk types
- Effective stakeholder management
- Non-linear problem solving
- Communication and leadership
- Synthesising and implementing methods of risk adaptation
- Project management in complex environments.
This unit is found in the Graduate Certificate of Project Management and the Graduate Diploma of Project Management.

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Project Management for Innovative Outcomes (PRM60002)
Project Management for Innovative Outcomes

PRM60002
Unit code: PRM60002 Project Management for Innovative Outcomes
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12.5 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit demonstrates the decisions and tasks that emerge during the phases of the entrepreneurial life cycle. The unit also aims to provide students with an understanding of the importance of developing project management capabilities and competences within an entrepreneurial venture in such a way that it captures organisational learning and influences, as well as establishing a process that clearly aligns project selection to enterprise strategy. The unit will critically analyse personal opportunities to develop entrepreneurial activities within the student’s own role.

Content
- What is an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur and a professional manager. What are their characteristics and traits?
- The role of the enterprising leader in project management
- The entrepreneurial life cycle and the role project management plays
- Determinants of a viable entrepreneurial project
- Conditions which stimulate the emergence of enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Understanding the strategic orientation of your enterprising business
- The benefits of feasibility studies
- Negotiation within the entrepreneurial firm and project management
- How to understand and analyse risk in entrepreneurial ventures and during its life cycle
- Managing and dealing with limited resources
- Funding sources for entrepreneurial projects
This unit is found in Graduate Certificate of Management

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Operations Management (SCM60001)

Operations Management

SCM60001

This unit critically examines the issues and techniques of Operations Management. It reviews the strategic importance of the operations function in delivering top quality products and services efficiently and effectively to meet the needs of clients and customers. It focuses on the three key operations management activities of operations design, operations planning and control, and operations improvement – all in a strategic context. The unit also provides an opportunity for students to apply theory and technique to real examples drawn from literature, observed in everyday life, and from students’ own experience. Contemporary issues in operations management are also explored.

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When you enrol to study a degree with us, you will nominate how many units you would like to select per teaching period, based on a recommendation from one of our Course Consultants. From here, our enrolments team will allocate you automatically to the units they feel will be best suited to your needs, so you don’t need to worry about choosing units. If you want to choose something different than what you are allocated to, that is no problem, just get in touch with our Student Liaison Team and they will take care of it for you.

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You won’t normally have to be online at a specific time. Your course material is available for you from the beginning of each teaching period and you can work through it in the hours that suit you.

There are some live webinar sessions that run approximately once a month. These are a special opportunity for students to sign in at the same time as their tutors, normally before an assessment deadline. It gives you the chance to ask any questions relating to the assignment in real time and hear other student’s questions and thoughts. We understand that students won’t always be able to make these sessions, so they can be replayed the next day.

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