Sundus Ahmad

APM Associate Member. Project Manager, AlphaPlus

Sundus is an assessment-led project manager who joined AlphaPlus in 2022. She is legally qualified and is involved with assessment creation, management, continuous improvement and quality assurance.

Clients she has worked with include the Department for Education, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

She previously worked for the General Medical Council and led the PLAB 2 assessment content development. She was also heavily involved in assessment delivery, post-assessment statistical analysis and management of associates and panels.

Sundus was responsible for a range of projects, some of which include: restructuring the PLAB 2 assessment and rewriting assessment content to ensure that it could run during the Covid pandemic and making the GMC the first regulator in the world to resume assessments during this time, producing bespoke chief invigilator training, examiner training and associate training, contributing to the creation of two new test centres, working alongside medical schools to produce content for the medical licensing assessment (MLA) and mapping the current PLAB 2 assessment to the MLA blueprint.

She is also involved in management and mentoring.

Sundus recently represented AlphaPlus during APM’s Project management employability skills workshop event at the Manchester Metropolitan University by engaging with students and other attendees.

Session: Managing Teams: Setting-up, Managing and Developing the PMO Team of a Growing Small Size Consulting Company

‘AlphaPlus is a small but rapidly growing Education Assessment Consultancy, starting 2020 with 20 employees rising to 55 in late 2022. Our entire business is focussed on the effective delivery of successful projects for our clients. We recognise that our success is dependent upon effective recruitment and induction of new staff and the continuous professional development (CPD) of our employees.

To continue our strong growth Project Management is a core discipline with investment in improving project management capability. Dr Nick Karamanis (Head of PMO) MAPM, has aligned AlphaPlus to industry best practice, becoming APM Corporate Partner in 2021.

By doing so, AlphaPlus attracted incredible Project Management talent through both apprenticeship and graduate recruitment and developed a supported CPD path with emphasis on the project management discipline, that mandates all our x13 Project Managers to be active APM members and acquire APM professional qualifications towards Chartered status (ChPP).