Weekly online
Each four-month module includes 14 interactive two-hour classes and one reading week, following an optional full-day London masterclass. Read selected material, practise between sessions and bring your questions back to the group.
Professional learning · Project Controls & Management
Certified PMO Professional Level 6.
Build a PMO that strengthens decisions across the organisation.
KBC’s Certified PMO Professional Level 6 is a 16-month programme for professionals who want to connect governance, integrated controls and stakeholder leadership. Its four modules develop a coherent capability: establish the PMO’s purpose and authority; build credible plans and performance information; strengthen risk, issue and quality practices; and communicate insight that supports action. Each module combines critical knowledge assessment with applied professional evidence. The programme draws on recognised project-management practice while retaining its own KBC assessment structure. APM currently recognises the named qualification as technical-knowledge evidence for ChPP Pathway 2, supporting a wider professional journey.
Weekly route16 months
Live online2 hours a week
Module startsOctober · February · June
Learning structure4 modules
The professional challenge
Make the next decision with more confidence.
Governance, planning, risk and reporting may each exist, yet still tell different stories. This programme helps you bring them together: establish a consistent baseline, make authority clear, connect uncertainty to decisions and give stakeholders information they can use. The result is professional capability that can be demonstrated through practical outputs.
Who will benefit
For PMO analysts and managers, project controllers, planners, assurance practitioners and project or programme leaders taking on wider responsibility. Applicants should be able to engage in critical analysis and draw on suitable project or PMO evidence, with role fit and professional experience considered during admissions.
What you take back to work
Practical capability, built through learning.
- Design proportionate PMO governance, decision rights, assurance and review arrangements.
- Integrate scope, schedule, cost, resources and change into credible controls.
- Evaluate risk, issue and quality practices and justify improvements.
- Develop stakeholder engagement, executive reporting and reflective professional evidence.
Inside the course
A connected learning journey.
Four modules of four months give a 16-month learning journey. Using KBC’s 14-session module model provides 56 taught sessions, with independent reading, applied work, feedback and assessment around them. The six blocks above unpack the four confirmed modules; they are not six additional modules or an official PMI teaching sequence.
01Module 1: PMO purpose and operating model
Examine how the PMO’s services relate to organisational strategy, culture and customer needs. Compare operating models and clarify the office’s remit before defining processes. The PMI PMO Practice Guide provides a useful customer-and-value perspective, while KBC’s module asks you to critique alternatives and justify your choices for a particular setting, with evidence of benefits and practical limitations.
Apply it at work: Produce a PMO purpose statement, service priorities and a justified operating-model proposal.
02Module 1: Governance and assurance
Develop the relationship between sponsors, boards, delivery teams and assurance functions. Evaluate decision rights, escalation, stage reviews and the information needed to exercise oversight. Consider how governance changes across predictive, adaptive and hybrid contexts. Examine ethics and organisational culture as factors in how formal arrangements work, and assess whether the proposed controls support timely and accountable decisions.
Apply it at work: Build a governance map, responsibility matrix and review or assurance approach.
03Module 2: Integrated plans and baselines
Translate requirements into scope, a work breakdown structure, schedule logic, estimates and resource needs. Challenge whether the resulting baseline is internally consistent and achievable. Consider configuration, assumptions and dependencies, recognising how a weakness in one part of the plan affects the whole. Practise explaining the reasoning behind a planning choice and the trade-offs it creates.
Apply it at work: Develop and critique an integrated baseline with its assumptions, estimates and key dependencies.
04Module 2: Performance, forecasting and change
Use progress and cost information to examine performance and future expectations. Connect earned-value measures, variance analysis and forecasting with the underlying work and data quality. Distinguish a revised forecast from an approved change to the baseline. Evaluate the information sponsors need when choosing corrective action, and keep changes traceable across scope, schedule, cost and resources.
Apply it at work: Prepare a performance report, forecast commentary and controlled change recommendation.
05Module 3: Risk, issues and quality
Examine uncertainty and delivery confidence through a connected management approach. Consider identification, assessment, response ownership and escalation alongside quality planning, assurance and control. Critique the usefulness of registers, reviews and measures in a real setting. Explore how lessons and evidence from quality or issue trends can lead to prevention, more realistic forecasts and stronger organisational practice.
Apply it at work: Develop a risk-and-quality improvement pack with ownership, review triggers and evidence of proposed benefit.
06Module 4: Stakeholders, reporting and influence
Turn technical information into communication that helps people act. Assess stakeholder needs and influence, choose an engagement approach and design reporting around decisions and exceptions. Practise explaining uncertainty, alternatives and recommendations to senior audiences. Bring the programme portfolio together through reflection on your judgement, professional contribution and areas for further development, including preparation for a possible ChPP application.
Apply it at work: Create a stakeholder engagement plan and executive reporting pack, supported by reflective professional evidence.
Learn around your working life
Time to understand. Space to apply.
This course runs across 4 modules (16 months) on the weekly route. Intensive teaching dates cover the agreed learning block; the full programme and external assessment requirements remain in your learning plan.
Online or in a city near you
Face-to-face delivery can be arranged in London, Maidstone, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool. Your course offer confirms the venue and teaching dates.
A London masterclass to start your module
Meet your tutors and fellow professionals at an optional full-day London event. KBC covers the event, agreed transportation, refreshments and an open buffet dinner. Confirm arrangements with the team before booking travel.
Support between sessions
Return to class recordings and learning resources, bring questions to your tutor and use free one-to-one tutoring and coaching support. Your course plan sets out the guided reading and practice needed alongside live teaching.
Your route to recognition
Know what the assessment involves.
Each KBC module combines critical knowledge assessment with a professional practice portfolio and reflective commentary. The programme requires evidence of both understanding and application, with approved simulated contexts where permitted by KBC. APM currently recognises the named qualification for ChPP Pathway 2 technical knowledge. Successful completion therefore supports that element of an eligible application; APM’s professional-practice, CPD, ethical and assessment requirements remain. ChPP is awarded by APM, with the applicable process checked when the learner applies.
Your written offer records the award or course completion requirements, any examination fees included, and the relevant eligibility checks.
The professional knowledge behind the course
Explore the books and standards.
The learning themes above bring together the relevant guide, syllabus and workplace practice. KBC’s teaching sequence connects these ideas through discussion and application.
- Certified PMO Professional Level 6 Programme Catalogue ↗Kent Business College · June 2026
Authoritative KBC professional programme:4 modules over 16 months; module content, knowledge assessments, applied portfolios and ChPP support.
- ChPP Recognised Assessment ↗Association for Project Management · Verified 10 September 2026
KBC Certified PMO Professional(Level 6) listing under Pathway 2 technical knowledge.
- Project Management Offices: A Practice Guide ↗Project Management Institute · 2025
Supplementary professional reading on PMO context, customer needs, services, operations and value.
- PMBOK Guide ↗Project Management Institute · Eighth Edition,2025
Supplementary integrated delivery reference across governance, scope, schedule, finance, stakeholders, resources and risk.
Your investment
Get a course offer that fits your route.
Request the standalone fee for your chosen format, including the teaching, reading materials, assessment and membership arrangements relevant to this course.
Exploring the full PCP apprenticeship?
£27,000 apprenticeship funding + £7,000 additional IPC support. The IPC package covers professional examinations, memberships, graduation, Benenden Health membership, London masterclasses and agreed transport.
These figures relate to the complete Project Controls Professional apprenticeship. Standalone course fees are separate. The team confirms eligibility, any employer contribution and the contents of your written offer.
Explore the PCP pathway →Your questions, answered.
How many modules are in the programme?
Four: PMO fundamentals and governance; planning, scheduling and integrated controls; risk, issue and quality; and stakeholder management, communication and reporting. Each runs for four months.
What does APM recognition cover?
The named KBC qualification is recognised for technical knowledge under ChPP Pathway 2. You still need to satisfy APM’s professional practice and other application requirements to achieve chartered status.
What practical evidence will I develop?
Depending on your context, outputs may include governance arrangements, an integrated baseline, performance analysis, risk and quality improvements, stakeholder plans and executive reporting. KBC’s assessment briefs define what must be submitted.
What would this help you achieve?
Talk to KBC about your experience, your goals and the right learning route for you.