Pearson EDI · RQF Level 3
Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma in Volunteer Management (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits57
- Units in this qualification28
Awarded by Pearson EDI · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson EDI 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.
Budgeting for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevance of budgets and the importance of operating within them
- Construct and manage a budget
Build, support and manage a teamReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and required attributes of a team and select those that match the team’s requirements.
- Induct team members and communicate their roles and responsibilities.
- Understand how to support team development.
- Manage team performance and understand how to disband a team.
- Understand how to disband team.
Contribute to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adultsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their organisation’s policies, procedures and practices for safe working with children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
Developing structures, systems and procedures to support volunteeringReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisation’s policy, structure, systems and procedures that support volunteering
- Justify and design improvements to organisational structures, systems and procedures to support volunteering
- Produce an action plan for the implementation of those improvements
Encourage and motivate volunteersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Motivate volunteers by promoting the special ethos and values of volunteering
- Recognise voluntary effort by valuing volunteer contributions
- Understand how to motivate volunteers by promoting the special ethos and values of volunteering
- Understand how to recognise voluntary effort by valuing volunteer contributions
Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safetyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements in relation to health and safety
- Identify hazards and evaluate risks in the workplace
- Reduce risks to health and safety in the workplace
Evaluate the programme of workReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the programme of work
- Understand evaluation activities
- Understand how to evaluate a programme of work
- Evaluate the programme of work
Introduction to campaigningReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand campaigning
- Understand campaign strategies
- Understand campaigning techniques, methods and audiences
Introduction to fundraisingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundraising activities
- Understand fundraising information and regulation
- Understand funding sources and fundraising resources, income sources and budgets
Introduction to managing volunteersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand managing volunteers
- Understand policies and procedures relating to the management of volunteers
- Understand the management of volunteers
Make effective decisionsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify circumstances that require a decision to be made.
- Collect information to inform decision-making.
- Analyse information to inform decision-making.
- Make a decision.
Manage conflict in a teamReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Support team members’ understanding of their role and position within a team.
- Take measures to minimise conflict within a team.
- Understand how to encourage team members to resolve their own conflicts.
- Understand legal and organisational requirements concerning conflict.
Manage customer service in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and communicate measurable customer service standards for own area of responsibility.
- Support staff in meeting customer service standards.
- Monitor and evaluate customer service performance, systems and processes.
Manage or support equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own responsibilities under equality legislation, relevant codes of practice and own organisational policies.
- Communicate an organisation’s written equality, diversity and inclusion policy and procedures in own area of responsibility.
- Monitor equality, diversity and inclusion within own area of responsibility.
Manage risk in relation to volunteersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how risk management impacts upon a volunteering policy.
- Carry out and evaluate risk assessment.
- Audit volunteer skills in relation to organisational goals.
- Enable staff to assess and manage risk when working with volunteers.
Managing and Developing Relationships in the WorkplaceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the needs and expectations of others
- Meet the needs and expectations of others
- Manage relationships where it is not possible to meet the need or expectations of others
Managing volunteer agreementsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between volunteer and employee relationships
- Understand good practice in the recruitment process for volunteers
- Understand good practice in volunteer agreements
Monitor the programme of workReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the programme of work
- Understand monitoring activities
- Monitor the progress of the programme of work
Negotiation and InfluencingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the aims and principles of effective negotiation and influencing skills.
- Know a variety of negotiation and influencing techniques and when they should be used.
- Demonstrate effective negotiation and influencing skills based on reflective practice.
Plan, allocate and monitor work of a teamReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work for a team.
- Allocate work across a team.
- Manage team members to achieve team objectives.
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of team members.
- Improve the performance of a team.
Project ManagementReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning effective project management
- Produce a comprehensive project plan that clearly defines aims and desired outcomes
- Implement the project plan, managing resources and timelines effectively
- Evaluate the success of the project against pre-defined criteria and identify areas for improvement
Promote volunteering within your organisation and to volunteersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need to promote volunteering
- Promote volunteering to key people in the organisation
- Help people in the organisation support volunteers
Set objectives and provide support for team membersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate a team’s purpose and objectives to the team members.
- Develop a plan with team members showing how team objectives will be met.
- Support team members identifying opportunities and providing support.
- Monitor and evaluate progress and recognise individual and team achievement.
Speaking and Listening SkillsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate with others.
- Present information to others.
- Obtain information from others.
- Engage in discussion.
Supervise and support volunteersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Encourage the development of volunteers.
- Provide appropriate and effective support to volunteers
- Evaluate volunteer activities and achievements in a constructive manner.
- Understand how to communicate and exchange feedback with volunteers.
Understand effective partnership working between organisationsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how partnership working can help an organisation achieve its mission
- Understand how partnership working is governed
- Understand how to work in partnership with other organisations
Understand values, ethics and safeguarding in the voluntary sectorReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand values and ethics in the voluntary sector
- Understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in the voluntary sector
- Understand safeguarding in the voluntary sector
Working in administrationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know the role of an administrator within business and administration
- Understand legislation affecting the work of administrators within a business environment
- Understand health and safety issues that affect the work of administrators within a business environment
- Understand the importance of organising their work area within a business environmentearning Outcome
- Carry out administrative processes in a business environment
- Reflect on own performance when carrying out administrative tasks in a business environment
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.
- Build and manage teams
- Contribute to the development of strategy in an organisation that involves volunteers
- Develop structures, systems and procedures to support volunteering
- Evaluate volunteers’ contribution to strategic goals
- Evaluate volunteers’ contribution towards your organisation’s goals
- Help address problems affecting volunteers
- Identify and prioritise issues on which to campaign
- Identify, assess and control health and safety risks
Where this can lead
PR Administrator
Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a set of interconnected paths. We'll help you explore what excites you, whether that's becoming an operational guru, moving into a broader PR role, or even specialising in a niche area. The key is to keep learning, keep growing, and keep asking 'what's next?'
See the whole journey →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 work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma in Volunteer Management (QCF)
28 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Budgeting for the Business
- Build, support and manage a team
- Contribute to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Developing structures, systems and procedures to support volunteering
- Encourage and motivate volunteers
- Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety
and 22 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.