Advanced Contract and Project Management

COURSE DURATION 10 DAYS

Date: 20^th-24^th April,2026

 

Introduction

Advanced Contract and Project Management integrates sophisticated strategies to effectively oversee complex projects by leveraging strong contractual frameworks, focusing on risk mitigation, maximizing value, handling disputes, and ensuring strategic alignment for successful delivery within scope, time, and budget, applicable across various sectors like construction, government, and international development. It builds on core skills to develop advanced capabilities in managing project lifecycles, contractual relationships, and large-scale portfolios for tangible business benefits.

 

Objectives

This training course will equip you with all of the knowledge that you need to be effective when managing projects in a contractual environment.

 

At the end of this Advanced Contract and Project Management training course, you will understand:

• Methods for improving contract performance
• How to deal with common issues, including slippage, scope creep, and cost growth
• How to handle claims and disputes successfully
• Key “soft” skills to help you solve problems and get the best out of people
• How to utilise alternative project strategies and methods of implementation
• Ways to increase organizational project capability and maturity
• Advanced project financing concepts
• Programme and portfolio management techniques to implement strategic change

 

Who Should Attend?

This ALARDI Africa training will benefit several professions. These include:

• Contract Managers & Contract holders
• Project Managers
• Procurement/Supply Chain team members
• Project Directors
• Project Sponsors
• Senior Management
• Assurance and quality management staff
• PMO Staff
• Technical Specialists
• Government Entities.

 

Organisational Impact

Organisations will maximise the value that they gain from implementing projects via contractual means, and reduce the risk of poor performance, financial loss, reduced value, and reputational damage.

 

The organisation will also gain:

• Increased capability to deliver strategic change
• Greater predictability in the benefits produced
• Increased confidence in returning value.

 

Personal Impact

Delegates who attend this Advanced Contract and Project Management training course will learn how to ensure that contracts deliver the results required, that the relationship between contract parties remains good, and that difficulties and adverse events can be overcome. Importantly, they will learn how to manage risk and change, and how to get the best out of everyone involved.  In addition, they will:

• Understand how to create the conditions for project success
• Deepen their knowledge of project financing
• Learn how to implement strategic change for their organisations.

 

Training Methodology

The Advanced Contract and Project Management training course is full of practical techniques and examples, intended to enhance knowledge and give practical benefit. The worked examples, case studies and team exercises will make applying the knowledge gained much easier. Often, helpful insight can be gained from discussion with other delegates, and the training course delivery style will provide opportunities to do this.

 

Course Outline

 

Module I: Advanced Contract Management

 

DAY 1. Introduction and Review of Basic Principles

• Why contract management?
• Benefits of doing it right and problems with doing it wrong
• Overview of overall contracts & procurement cycle
• Relationship to project management
• Developing effective procurement strategies
• Common contract types – pros, cons, and risks
• Key roles and responsibilities

 

DAY 2. Post Award Management

• Preparation for contract post-award phase
• Handover from contract award
• Process overview, including inputs and outputs

• Initiation stage
• Planning stage
• Delivery stage

• Change management
• Risk management

 

DAY 3. Contract Closeout

• Closeout process overview, including inputs and outputs
• Contract closure
• Handover and transition
• Operations and support
• Handling premature close

 

DAY 4. Key Management Skills

• Relationship and stakeholder management
• Communication
• Performance management
• Negotiation
• Conflict management
• Leadership
• Documentation and record keeping

 

DAY 5. Encountering and Solving Problems

• Common issues and risks, and how to deal with them
• Disputes
• Claims
• Completion, sign off, and payment problems
• Recap of material
• Reference Material
• Things you can do when you return to your desk

 

Module II: Advanced Project Management

 

DAY 6. Implementing Strategy via Projects, Programmes and Portfolios

• What is strategy, and how can the project world help to deliver it?
• The increasing velocity of change and how we handle it
• Delivery of change – common vehicles, when to deploy, and how to manage them

• Projects
• Programmes
• Portfolios

• Managing for benefits and value

 

DAY 7. Advanced Project Delivery

• Determining and managing the project environment
• Setting the conditions for project success
• Alternative delivery models, including Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid and Evolving
• Change management and transition to BAU
• Project procurement strategy

 

DAY 8. Doing the Right Projects and Doing the Project Right

• Governance – methods
• Effective sponsorship
• Supporting the project organisation
• Gaining and maintaining assurance
• Focus on people and leadership

 

DAY 9. Project Finance and Project Maturity Models

• Understanding project funding
• Comprehending project accounting
• Effective investment appraisal
• Getting better at projects – using maturity models

• Organisational considerations
• Why project maturity matters
• Common models

 

DAY 10. Ethics and Professionalism

• Project professionalism
• Ethics
• Competence
• Learning and development
• Communities of practice
• Recap of material
• Reference Material
• Things you can do when you return to your desk

 

Certificate

• On successful completion of this training course, the ALARDI Africa Certificate will be issued to the participants.

 

Training Venue:

Kenya -Mombasa-Cost USD-3600

Zambia-Lusaka-Cost USD-4200

 

Date: 20^th-24^th April,2026