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Digital project manager
Changing a management system, rolling out an application across a branch network, migrating historical data: these operations succeed when someone runs them. The digital project manager holds that role, between technology and the business.
Running a change, not just a project
Scoping settles the essentials: what the project must produce, what it costs, who decides. Then comes steering providers, where the quality of the contract counts as much as the quality of the relationship. Change management takes at least as much space as technology: training users, adapting procedures, supporting teams who have lost their landmarks. Go-live is prepared far in advance, because it plays out in one night and is judged the next morning.
- Scope a project: perimeter, budget, governance, success criteria
- Steer a provider against a contract and delivery milestones
- Run change management: training, procedures, support
- Prepare a go-live and secure the rollback path
The projects being run here
Replacing a management system
Accounting, inventory, invoicing: a project that touches the whole organisation, with data migration as its critical point.
Digitising a public service
Online counters, paperless procedures: high-impact projects run by administrations and agencies.
Network-wide rollout
An application deployed across dozens of branches: logistics and training weigh more than technology there.
The format, stated plainly
The stated duration matches the programme followed at its intended pace, from the first block to the final defence. Taught hours are those of instructor-led sessions; credits place the programme on the catalogue's common scale. The three hold together and read at a glance, which is exactly how they are used.
- qualification level
- 6
- months of programme
- 10
- taught hours
- 750 h
- credits
- 75
- competency blocks
- 5
Manager and professional
Led by an instructor.
1 credit = 25 h of work, 10 of them taught.
Framework of the « Digital Project Manager » qualification, code TP25.
The skills map
This map shows where training time goes. A wide block concentrates practice, a short one locks down a precise point; both are needed, and the framework states which weighs what. It is the information a department head asks for when considering sending a team member on a programme.
| Competency block | What it covers | Taught hours |
|---|---|---|
| Framing and requirements | Needs analysis, scope, stakeholders, specifications, budget | 190 h |
| Project control | Planning, estimation, risks, steering committees, variances, agile methods | 200 h |
| Managing suppliers and procurement | Tendering, contracting, acceptance testing, reversibility, disputes | 170 h |
| Rollout and change management | Migration, training, support, measuring adoption | 140 h |
| Managerial conduct | Negotiating with the business, arbitrating, reporting to leadership | 50 h |
Training to run digital projects
Every row in this table comes from the official catalogue: title, duration, credits, taught hours and yearly or one-off fees. Nothing is rounded and nothing is hand-entered. This is the table you take to an employer to request funding, or to an adviser to weigh your options.
| Programme | Duration | Credits | Taught hours | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Management Certificate · Professional certification | 6 months | 18 | 180 h | 2 900 000 GNF in total |
| Digital Transformation Certificate · Professional certification | 6 months | 18 | 180 h | 3 600 000 GNF in total |
The questions we get about this occupation
Is a technical profile required?
Technical literacy is enough, and many project managers come from the business concerned — accounting, logistics, branch network. That ground knowledge makes scoping sharper and change management markedly more effective.
Which certificate prepares best?
The project management certificate installs the method in six months; the digital transformation one adds a strategic reading of information systems. Both can be taken while working and combine usefully before the level 6 qualification.
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