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Certified Engineering Project Specialist

Online Certification  ·  11 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CENPS)

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Executive Summary

Certified Engineering Project Specialist

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Engineering Project Specialist (CENPS) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in project planning, delivery and programme management.

This 11 Week programme is structured around PMI/PMBOK, PRINCE2 and recognised project-management standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CENPS holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Engineering Project Specialist
Acronym
CENPS
Category
Project Management
Level
Advanced
Duration
11 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 449
Live Virtual
USD 649
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Recertification, CPD and staying current — applied to your own work
  • Requirements engineering and user stories — applied to your own work
  • DevOps, CI/CD and release management — applied to your own work
  • Software design patterns and quality — applied to your own work
  • SQL and relational databases — applied to your own work
  • Designing your first 90 days after — applied to your own work
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior project, programme and PMO leadership roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with PMI/PMBOK, PRINCE2 and recognised project-management standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex project planning functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement project planning systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to project planning
Global Employability
Qualify for project planning roles across corporates, NGOs, construction, IT and development organisations worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Project Initiation, Scope and Planning
✦Schedule, Cost and Resource Management
✦Risk, Quality and Procurement in Projects
✦Agile, Hybrid and Delivery Approaches
✦Programme, Portfolio and Benefits Management
✦Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Engineering Project Specialist
  • Certified Engineering Project Specialist: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • Project management principles and lifecycle
  • Projects, programmes and portfolios
  • Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Project roles and the project manager
  • Business case and strategic alignment
  • Project governance and assurance
  • Ethics and professional responsibility
  • Predictive, agile and hybrid approaches
  • Career pathways and professional development
2
Recertification, CPD and staying current
  • Recertification, CPD and staying current
  • Building your professional portfolio and evidence of practice
  • Mentorship, networks and the community of practice
  • Web and mobile application development
  • Software design patterns and quality
  • Maintenance, refactoring and technical debt
  • Data modelling and database design
  • SQL and relational databases
  • NoSQL and modern data stores
  • Data warehousing and data lakes
  • ETL, data pipelines and engineering
  • Business intelligence and reporting
  • Data analytics and visualisation
  • Big data technologies and platforms
  • Data privacy and protection
3
Requirements engineering and user stories
  • Requirements engineering and user stories
  • Version control and collaborative development
  • Testing, QA and test automation
  • DevOps, CI/CD and release management
  • Agile, Scrum and Kanban delivery
  • Network design, LAN/WAN and topologies
  • TCP/IP, DNS and routing
  • Wireless, mobile and edge networking
  • Cloud platforms and services
  • Containerisation and Kubernetes
  • Serverless and microservices
  • Platform engineering and reliability (SRE)
  • Monitoring, observability and logging
  • Network security and zero trust
  • Cost, performance and capacity management
4
DevOps, CI/CD and release management
  • DevOps, CI/CD and release management
  • Agile, Scrum and Kanban delivery
  • Web and mobile application development
  • Ratio analysis: liquidity, profitability, gearing
  • Pricing strategy and models
  • Decision rights and accountability
  • Anti-corruption and honest reporting
  • Stakeholder satisfaction
  • Prioritisation and portfolio value
  • Forecasting and variance analysis
  • Designing your first 90 days after certification
  • Your one-year professional development trajectory
  • The two-year horizon: expertise, leadership and professional standing
  • Curriculum and programme design
  • Account opening, KYC and customer due diligence
5
Software design patterns and quality
  • Software design patterns and quality
  • Maintenance, refactoring and technical debt
  • Data modelling and database design
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
6
SQL and relational databases
  • SQL and relational databases
  • NoSQL and modern data stores
  • Data warehousing and data lakes
7
Designing your first 90 days after
  • Designing your first 90 days after certification
  • Your one-year professional development trajectory
  • The two-year horizon: expertise, leadership and professional standing
8
Service and Beneficiaries
  • Customer and brand health metrics
  • Market and customer analysis
  • Customer data and CRM
  • Building strategic customer relationships
  • Customer success and retention
  • Customer lifetime value and profitability
  • Customer data platforms and segmentation
  • Customer experience and journey mapping
  • Cross-functional collaboration with product and service
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • IT operations and service management
  • Innovation in service delivery
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Governance of service standards
  • Responsible and ethical service
9
Safety and Wellbeing
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Influencing and safety leadership
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Driving measurable safety improvement
  • Designing a safety programme or control
  • Job safety analysis (JSA) and task risk
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Predictive safety analytics
  • Automation and safety technology
  • Brand health and measurement
  • Regulatory compliance and biosafety
  • Data protection and customer privacy
  • Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
10
Procurement and Supply
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Vendor selection and management
  • Supply market analysis
  • Contract law and formation
  • Contract exit and renewal
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
  • Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
  • The procurement cycle and operating models
  • Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
  • Public versus private procurement
  • Contract performance and exit
  • Contract governance and compliance
  • Sustainable procurement principles and standards
  • Fair trade and responsible supply
11
Change and Innovation
  • Business model design and innovation
  • Digital transformation and IT strategy
  • Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Emerging tools and innovation
  • Change control and configuration
  • Organisational change management
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Innovation and continuous delivery
  • Agile and digital transformation projects
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Digital and market transformation
  • Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
  • Customer experience transformation
12
Strategic Context
  • Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
  • Measuring strategic progress
  • Turning strategy into results
  • Supply markets and the enabling environment
  • Category management and strategy development
  • Sourcing strategies and portfolio (Kraljic)
  • Negotiation strategy and planning
  • Strategic customer relationships
  • Residential and commercial property markets
  • Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
  • Listing, marketing and selling property
  • Digital marketing strategy
  • Content marketing and editorial
  • SEO and search marketing
  • Email and marketing automation
13
Inclusion and Equity
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Team diversity and inclusion
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Handling vulnerable customers
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
  • Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
  • Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Assets, liabilities and equity reporting
  • Financial inclusion and serving underbanked markets
  • Diversity and pay-equity analytics
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • Gender, youth and social inclusion in agricultural development
14
Crisis and Resilience
  • Crisis communications
  • Emergency preparedness and response planning
  • Business continuity and recovery
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Reputation and crisis communications
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Business continuity and crisis management
  • Crisis and reputation communication
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
15
Research and Method
  • Security by design
  • Malware and attack analysis
  • Strategic analysis: PESTLE, SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces
  • Instructional design models (ADDIE, SAM)
  • Blended and hybrid learning design
  • Costing methods: absorption, marginal and activity-based
  • Cost-volume-profit and break-even analysis
  • Standard costing and variance analysis
  • Financial modelling and scenario analysis
  • Sensitivity, scenario and what-if analysis
  • Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
  • Situation analysis and diagnostic assessment
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Financial and technical feasibility analysis
  • Advisory service design and delivery
16
Knowledge and Records
  • Incident reporting and record-keeping
  • Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Lessons learned and knowledge management
  • Professional documentation and presentation
  • Professional report writing and presentation
  • Process and control documentation
  • Tender planning and documentation
  • Knowledge management and capability building
17
International and Donor Context
  • Key global frameworks: FAO, GlobalG.A.P., SDGs and national strategies
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Proposal development and donor reporting
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Communicating with families and carers
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Project governance frameworks
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Forecasting and planning
18
Leadership and Governance
  • Range planning and category management
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
  • Ground control and strata management
  • Mine water, tailings and environmental management
  • Quality management on site: inspections, hold points and defects
  • Decision support and insight
  • Front office and reservations management
  • Communicating financial results
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Leadership versus management and when each is needed
  • Situational and adaptive leadership
  • Values, purpose and authentic leadership
  • Ethical leadership and integrity
19
Risk, Compliance and Assurance
  • Interest-rate risk and gap analysis
  • Derivatives and risk instruments
  • Regulatory liquidity ratios (LCR, NSFR)
  • Governance, risk and compliance
  • Regulatory awareness (GDPR and beyond)
  • Control environment and risk assessment
  • Fraud risk and controls
  • Control monitoring and reporting
  • Risk-based audit planning
  • Data analytics in audit
  • Quality assurance of audit
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
  • The regulatory and legal environment
  • Regulator and investor relations
20
Resources and Value
  • Procurement and contract value
  • Value engineering and optimisation
  • Realising and measuring project value
  • Cost estimation and budgeting
  • Resource planning and levelling
  • Earned value management
  • Time and cost control
  • Managing schedule and budget performance
  • Portfolio and resource management systems
  • Value management and business value
  • Capacity and resource optimisation
  • Cost concepts, classification and behaviour
  • Budgeting techniques and the budgeting cycle
  • Flexible budgets and rolling forecasts
  • Responsibility accounting and cost centres
21
Evidence and Reporting
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • Monitoring, evaluation and sustainability plan
  • Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
  • Data-driven decision support and analytics
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Complaint data and learning
  • Service analytics and dashboards
  • Text and interaction analytics
  • Data privacy and consent
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Data ethics and customer privacy
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • KPIs and performance reporting
  • Data visualisation for finance
22
Stakeholders and Engagement
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
  • Advocacy and policy engagement
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Proactive engagement and success
  • Win-back and re-engagement
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
  • Managing difficult stakeholders
  • Stakeholder mapping in banking
  • Stakeholder identification and analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Motivation and engagement
  • Partnering and co-creation with customers
23
Planning and Delivery
  • Project initiation and chartering
  • Integrated project planning
  • Project management plan development
  • Quality planning and assurance
  • Communication planning and management
  • Building project relationships
  • Project management software and tools
  • Scheduling and planning tools
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • Automation in project delivery
  • AI and predictive project analytics
  • Managing HR projects and change
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Onboarding and induction programme design
  • Succession planning and talent pipelines
24
Communication and Influence
  • Professional presentation and pitching
  • Media and public communication
  • Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
  • Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
  • Communicating technical information to diverse audiences
  • Communication and interpersonal skills
  • Influencing and presenting insights
  • Integrated marketing communications (IMC)
  • Negotiation and influencing
  • Professional and persuasive communication
  • Ethics in communications
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Commercial negotiation and value capture
  • Integrated marketing communications
25
Quality and Improvement
  • Mineral processing and beneficiation
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Quality and delivery metrics
  • Continuous improvement and retrospectives
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Quality control and continuous improvement
  • Integrated risk and quality control
  • Costing production: standard costs, variances and the true cost of scrap
  • Service quality and the passenger experience in transport
  • Energy efficiency and demand management
  • Data quality and governance
26
People and Capability
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Leading service teams
  • Training and capability building
  • Team leadership in customer service
  • Team leadership in banking operations
  • Training needs analysis
  • Cognitive load and learning science
  • The learning and development profession
  • Learning strategy and business alignment
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
  • Team leadership and motivation
  • Leading project teams
  • Team development and effectiveness
  • Building high-performing project teams
27
Technology and Systems
  • Professional ethics in technology
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Performance management systems and cycles
  • Stakeholders and users of financial information
  • The finance function and digital transformation
  • Board reporting and information flows
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Environmental management systems (ISO 14001)
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Digital permits and inspections
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Digital, mobile and internet banking
  • The banking system, intermediation and financial markets
  • Digital disruption and the future of banking
  • Branch-to-digital migration
28
Environment and Sustainability
  • Embedding sustainability in sourcing
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Market analysis and environmental scanning
  • Sustainability and responsible marketing
  • Carbon markets and climate finance
  • Monitoring sustainability outcomes
  • Policy, institutions and the enabling environment for agriculture
  • Sustainability certification and standards
  • Environmental flows and sustainability
  • Social media customer care
  • Sustainability and responsible sourcing
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
  • Responsible and sustainable banking
29
Ethics and Accountability
  • Marketing and sales ethics
  • Conflicts of interest and transparency
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Roles, standards and professional conduct
  • Ethics and fair customer treatment
  • Complaints, redress and accountability
  • Roles, conduct and professional standards in banking
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
  • Treating customers fairly and market conduct
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
30
Policy and Institutions
  • Policy and public engagement
  • Policy administration and customer service in insurance
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Types of banks and financial institutions
  • Public, private and non-profit governance
  • Customer effort and sentiment analysis
  • Churn analysis and prevention
  • Performance management in service
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Handling escalations as a leader
  • Designing and facilitating groups
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Recertification, CPD and staying current — applied to your own work
  • Requirements engineering and user stories — applied to your own work
  • DevOps, CI/CD and release management — applied to your own work
  • Software design patterns and quality — applied to your own work
  • SQL and relational databases — applied to your own work
  • Designing your first 90 days after — applied to your own work
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CENPS certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with PMI/PMBOK, PRINCE2 and recognised project-management standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CENPS?

This certification is ideal for Project Coordinators and Officers, Project and Programme Managers, PMO and Portfolio Professionals and Team and Delivery Leads, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in project planning, delivery and programme management with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CENPS certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 11 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CENPS internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with PMI/PMBOK, PRINCE2 and recognised project-management standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CENPS certification?

The Certified Engineering Project Specialist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CENPS certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CENPS?

The Certified Engineering Project Specialist is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CENPS?

The Certified Engineering Project Specialist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CENPS while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CENPS?

Graduates progress towards senior project, programme and PMO leadership roles. The CENPS strengthens your expertise in project planning, delivery and programme management and positions you for advancement across corporates, NGOs, construction, IT and development organisations.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Programme Director
Private Sector
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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Project Manager
NGO Sector
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I earned my CENPS while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

PMO Lead
Government
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