VTCT Skills · RQF Level 3
VTCT Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Sports Development (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits64
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification21
Awarded by VTCT Skills · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units VTCT Skills registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibilityReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work for colleagues
- Brief colleagues on planned work
- Monitor colleagues’ work
- Support colleagues in their work
- Understand own sector context for allocating and monitoring work in own area of responsibility
- Understand own organisational context for allocating and monitoring work in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to plan work for colleagues
- Understand how to brief colleagues on planned work
- Understand how to monitor work carried out by colleagues
- Understand how to support colleagues in their work
Apply for external funding for sport and physical activityReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Identify sources of funding for sport and physical activity
- Identify sources of funding for sport and physical activity
- Prepare bids and tenders
- Prepare bids and tenders
- Negotiate and agree funding
- Negotiate and agree funding
Contribute to evaluating, developing and promoting servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the evaluation of service provision
- Develop and improve services
- Contribute to the promotion of services
- Understand how to carry out evaluations
- Understand how to make improvements to services
- Know which individuals in the organisation to work with in relation to different activities
Contribute to strategic development in sport and active leisureReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to strategic development in sport and active leisure
- Contribute to strategic development in sport and active leisure
Contribute to the prevention and management of abusive and aggressive behaviourReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Know and understand how to prevent and manage abusive and aggressive behaviour
- Know and understand the forms, causes and effects of abusive and aggressive behaviour
- Deal with incidents of abusive and aggressive behaviour
- Contribute to minimising the risk of abusive and aggressive behaviour
Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholdersReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Understand the organisational context for working relationships
- Understand how to identify key stakeholders
- Understand conflict resolution in relation to colleagues and stakeholders
- Establish working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Understand how to work with colleagues and stakeholders
- Work with colleagues and stakeholders
- Understand how to monitor and review relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Review relationships with colleagues and
Ensure the health, safety, welfare and security of customers and staffReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure the health, safety, welfare and security of customers and staff
- Identify hazards and assess risks to health, safety and security
- Identify hazards and assess risks to health, safety and security
- Contribute to developing and maintaining normal and emergency operating procedures
- Contribute to developing and maintaining normal and emergency operating procedures
- Contribute to maintaining and improving procedures for the protection of vulnerable participants
- Contribute to maintaining and improving procedure
Facilitate community-based sport and physical activityReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate community-based sport and physical activity
- Research the community and establish working relationships
- Research the community and establish working relationships
- Plan and deliver sport and physical activity programmes in the community
- Plan and deliver sport and physical activity programmes in the community
- Enable communities to organise and sustain opportunities for participation and progression
- Enable communities to organise and sustain opportunities for participation and progression
Involve, motivate and retain volunteersReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the value and role of volunteering
- Understand how to promote volunteering to potential volunteers
- Promote volunteering to potential volunteers
- Understand the principles of involving and motivating volunteers in an organisation
- Involve volunteers in the organisation
- Understand how to respond to volunteers wishing to change or conclude their volunteering role
- Support volunteers in changing or concluding their volunteering role
- Understand the principles of supporting and supervising volunteers in order to retain their contribution
Lead and motivate volunteersReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand good practice and legal requirements when working with volunteers
- Understand communication with volunteers when leading and motivating them
- Brief volunteers on work requirements and responsibilities
- Understand the principles of involving and motivating volunteers
- Understand the principles of evaluating the work of volunteers
- Provide volunteers with feedback on their work
- Understand the principles of supporting and supervising volunteers
- Support volunteers in solving problems during volunteering activities
Manage a projectReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of project management
- Understand how to establish the scope, aims and objectives of a project
- Establish the scope, aims and objectives of a project
- Understand how to plan a project
- Plan a project
- Understand how to implement a project
- Implement a project
- Understand how to close a project
- Close a project
Manage information for actionReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Manage information for action
- Gather required information
- Gather required information
- Inform and advise others
- Inform and advise others
- Hold meetings
- Hold meetings
Manage own resources and professional developmentReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between the management of personal resources and performance in own work role
- Understand how to identify the requirements of a work role
- Set work objectives to meet the requirements of a work role
- Evaluate personal resources against work role requirements and agreed work objectives
- Understand how to develop personal resources to meet work role requirements and improve performance
- Identify learning needs in the context of own work role
- Plan own continuing professional development
- Engage in continuing pro
Plan and organise servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and organise services
- Plan services and operations to meet requirements and expectations
- Plan services and operations to meet requirements and expectations
- Monitor and maintain services and operations
- Monitor and maintain services and operations
Promote equality and diversity in sport and physical activityReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Promote equality and diversity in sport and physical activity
- Identify issues of equality and diversity that impact on communities
- Identify issues of equality and diversity that impact on communities
- Ensure that equality and diversity are integrated into the delivery of sport and physical activity
- Ensure that equality and diversity are integrated into the delivery of sport and physical activity
Provide leadership in sport and active leisureReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own personal context for leadership
- Establish the conditions for effective leadership in a sport and active leisure context
- Understand how to lead other people
- Lead people in a sport and active leisure context
- Understand how to empower other people through leadership
- Empower other people through effective leadership in sport and active leisure
Provide learning opportunities for colleaguesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Encourage learning and development
- Help colleagues identify their learning needs and styles
- Help colleagues to plan and implement learning and development
- Help colleagues to implement learning opportunities
- Help colleagues to review and update learning and development plans
- Understand how to encourage learning and development
- Understand how to help colleagues identify their learning needs and styles
- Understand how to help colleagues to plan learning and development
- Understand how to help colleagues to implement learning and develop
Recruit, select and keep colleaguesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Identify recruitment and selection needs
- Plan a recruitment and selection process
- Contribute to a recruitment and selection of people for identified vacancies
- Contribute to the retention of colleagues
- Understand own sector context for recruitment, selection and retention
- Understand own organisational context for recruitment, selection and retention
- Understand how to identify recruitment and selection needs
- Understand how to plan recruitment and selection processes
- Understand how to contribute to the recruitment and selection of people for ide
Support the development of sport and physical activity in educationReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Support the development of sport and physical activity in education
- Understand the policies and strategies around the development of sport and physical activity in education
- Work with key stakeholders to develop sport and physical activity in education
- Work with key stakeholders to develop sport and physical activity in education
- Support the educational community to develop sport and physical activity
Support the efficient use of resourcesReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Support the efficient use of resources
- Make recommendations for the use of resources
- Make recommendations for the use of resources
- Contribute to the control of resources
- Contribute to the control of resources
Work with others to improve customer serviceReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Improve customer service by working with others
- Monitor their own performance when improving customer service
- Monitor team performance when improving customer service
- Understand how to work with others to improve customer service
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Allocate and monitor the progress of your work in your area of responsibility
- Contribute to change through implementing and reviewing strategy and policy
- Contribute to developing your organisation and its services in relation to equality in sport
- Design community-based sport and physical activity programmes
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders in sport
- Facilitate Community-Based Sport and Physical Activity
- Facilitate groups in community arts activities
- Involve, motivate, and retain volunteers
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for VTCT Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Sports Development (QCF)
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by VTCT Skills.
- Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility
- Apply for external funding for sport and physical activity
- Contribute to evaluating, developing and promoting services
- Contribute to strategic development in sport and active leisure
- Contribute to the prevention and management of abusive and aggressive behaviour
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
and 15 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.