Australian Standards Framework LEVEL 4

This level of award is appropriate for a

PROJECT TEAM LEADER

The function of a PROJECT TEAM LEADER is to work collaboratively with a Project Manager in the effective and efficient implementation of a project. The PROJECT TEAM LEADER leads a full- or part-time team responsible for discrete elements of the tasks or activities for which he/she is responsible, and to achieve this analyses the project plan to identify tasks and activities for which he/she has been delegated responsibility, gathers together and prepares the resources (human and physical) required to undertake these tasks and activities, and uses or allocates them to others to achieve the desired outcomes.

Competence at this level involves:

“. . .  the application of knowledge with depth in some areas and a broad range of skills. There is a range to tasks and roles in a variety of contexts, with some complexity in the range and choice of actions required.

Competencies are normally used within routines, methods and procedures where discretion and judgement is required, for both self and others, in planning and selection of equipment, work organisation, services, actions and achieving outcomes within time constraints.

The competencies are likely to be applied under general guidance on progress and outcomes sought. The work of others may be supervised, or teams guided or facilitated. Responsibility for and limited organisation of the work of others may be involved.”

 (National Training Board Policy and Guidelines 1992)

The competency standards detailed in the following have been developed as a result of a wide-ranging analysis of what was formerly regarded as a team member function and of industry practises in relatively stable and controlled workplace environments. They are based in part on a review of the National Competency Standards for Project Management (endorsed 1996) and the Project Management domain of the BSB01 Business Services Training Package (endorsed 2003) and should be contextualised to organisational and workplace practises when employed as a measurement of on-the-job competence.

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