BSB40920 Certificate IV in Project Management Practice

Learn Project Management and stand out among your peers!
Take charge of your career by developing essential project management skills to lead and manage projects successfully. This qualification is designed to equip you with the practical skills needed to confidently step into roles such as Project Administrator, Contracts Officer, or Quality Assurance Professional.

What You’ll Be Able to Do in the Workplace:

• Define and Manage Project Scope
  You’ll be able to outline project goals, define deliverables, and manage resources efficiently, ensuring that projects stay on track and meet business objectives.
• Oversee Time and Budget Constraints
  You’ll develop the skills to manage project schedules and budgets, ensuring timely completion and financial control, vital for maintaining smooth project operations.
• Lead Quality Assurance and Risk Management
  Learn how to maintain quality standards and minimise risks by identifying potential issues early and implementing strategies to address them.
• Facilitate Team Collaboration and HR Management
  You’ll effectively lead project teams, assign tasks, and resolve conflicts, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned with the project goals.
• Apply Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  Enhance your ability to assess situations, make informed decisions, and solve problems that arise during the project lifecycle.

Start Anytime, Study Anywhere

With flexible, self-paced online learning, you can enrol and begin your course at any time, allowing you to balance your studies with work or other commitments.

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BSB40920 Certificate IV in Project Management Practice

Course Description

This qualification reflects the wide variety of roles that individuals can fulfil with project management skills and knowledge. These include contracts officer, project administrator or quality assurance professional. You will have the skills to manage projects from start to finish, including startup, risk management and completion.

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who apply project management skills and knowledge in a wide variety of contexts. The job roles that relate to this qualification may include Contracts Officer, Project Administrator or Quality Officer.

Individuals in these roles work autonomously, and might be members of a project team, with no direct responsibility for overall project outcome. Primarily, these roles would support wider project operations. They may use project tools and methodologies selectively to support organisational or business activities.

Study Mode

Self-paced completed online in your own time, at your own pace.

This course is delivered using an asynchronous study methodology, utilising mainly online delivery (eLearning) of learning materials and assessment resources.

We provide our students ongoing support throughout the course duration via telephone, emails and/or virtual online meetings, on request.

Flexible Duration

Up to 12 months – can be extended up to and no longer than 3 months depending on course progression.

Study Load

Self-Paced – Completion of one unit per month is recommended to ensure ongoing progression and completion within the course duration.

Start Date

Start anytime

Course Units

This qualification consists of 9 units (3 core units and 6 elective units).

Course Completion / Qualification Pathways

Students obtaining a ‘competent’ result for all units of competency will achieve the BSB40920 – Certificate IV in Project Management Practice.

A Statement of Attainment will be issued to students who complete less than the required units for the full qualification.

*Note: Australian College does not guarantee successful completion of the course nor guarantees a particular employment outcome on completion of the qualification.’

On successful completion of this qualification, students may choose to undertake further studies in a qualification of their choice building further on a potential career for the future. Below are listed some Certificate IV and Diploma level qualifications that students may choose to continue their studies, and Australian College has on offer:

• BSB40320 Certificate IV in Entrepreneurship and New Business

• BSB40820 Certificate IV in Marketing and Communication

• BSB50120 Diploma of Business

• BSB50820 Diploma of Project Management

Career Opportunities

Students completing this qualification can aspire to work in a position of project administrator / coordinator, project officer, project analyst.

This course does not have mandatory entry requirements as outlined in the training package.

However, Australian College has certain admission criteria for this course. Prospective students must:

• Be minimum 16 years of age or older at the time of enrolment. Parental consent is required from all students under the age of 18 years
• complete a language, literacy and numeracy test prior to enrolment
• depending on the unit, students may be required to interact with actual or simulated team members, clients and staff and maybe required to participate in audio/video-recorded role-plays with others.
• obtain their Unique Student Identifier (USI) and provide it to Australian College. Information on how to obtain a USI can be found here.
• agree to comply with Australian College policies and procedures as published on the website and outlined in the Student Handbook.
• pay all fees as outlined in the Enrolment Terms and Conditions.

Students must have access to and be able to operate:

• An internet-enabled PC/Laptop or similar running a current operating system (E.g. Windows 10 or Mac OSX)
• An audio/video recording device (such as a mobile phone) for the purpose of preparing audio/video assessment recordings
• Microsoft Office (or compatible software)
• Current web browser (e.g., Chrome)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader or another PDF document viewer
• Valid email address

Overseas Students Policy

This course is not available to students on an Overseas Student Visa.

As defined in the ESOS Act 2000, Overseas students are not eligible to apply to enrol in this nationally recognised course, nor are they eligible for certification. Please refer to the Enrolment Terms and Conditions.

This course is delivered using an asynchronous study methodology, utilising mainly online delivery (eLearning) of training materials supported with emails and phone calls with the trainer and assessor, on request.

Self-paced completed online in your own time, at your own pace. We provide our students ongoing support throughout the course duration via telephone, emails and/or virtual online meetings.

There is no specification of vocational placement or workplace hours requirements for this qualification/units of competency.

Students may be instructed to complete additional study in the form of prescribed reading, or workplace activities, in addition to completion of written assessments or role-play demonstrations.

Assessments

To ensure we gather all types of evidence as required by the training package and unit requirements, various assessment methods are being used to assess the student’s competencies.

Following are assessment methods used for this qualification:

• Knowledge/Theory based assessment consisting of questions and answers
• Case Studies – includes analysis of case studies and answering questions
• Projects– depending on the unit, projects may have to be completed in a simulated environment.
• Practical activities and observations
• Third Party Reports
• Roleplays
• Portfolio Builder

Please note that practical demonstrations and roleplays will have to be video recorded and submitted via Australian College LMS for marking

This qualification does not require mandatory work placement.

However, Australian College recommends students to have access to a real office work environment for them to practice and complete assessment tasks using specific software and equipment.

Course Fees – $4,000

PAYMENT OPTION 1 – $1,400 on enrolment, $1,400 on week 2, $1,200 on week 3
PAYMENT OPTION 2 – $450 deposit, then $80 weekly (for 50 weeks) = $4,450
PAYMENT OPTION 3 – Zip Money or customise your own payment plan