Career Path and Progression
The positions of an Associate Project Manager allow the promotion to higher rank in project management. When they gain necessary experience and/or obtain further trainings, they can move up to the post of Project Manager, or Senior Project Manager, Program Manager, and even to the higher executive positions including Director of Project Management or Chief Operating Officer (COO).
An Assistant Project Manager usually becomes into a Project Manager position after taking the necessary experience proving his or her worth. From then it is similar to an Associate Project Manager and possible promotions to Senior Project Manager and so on.
Associate project manager vs assistance project manager
Within the project management domains, many stakeholders’ work together in the completion of projects. Two of such positions that people like to use interchangeably due to the similarity in their names are the position of an Associate Project Manager and an Assistant Project Manager. Although, both positions work for the Project Manager and the project team, the role, requirements, and development trajectory differs. This article attempts to explain each of these roles in a manner that will allow a comparison between them and possibly explain what each entails.