Active IQ · RQF Level 3
Active IQ Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Outdoor Programmes
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits39
- Guided learning390 hours
- Units in this qualification16
Awarded by Active IQ · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Active IQ 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.
Contribute to improving personal and organisational performanceReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to improving personal and organisational performance
- Monitor own performance and the performance of own area of responsibility
- Monitor own performance and the performance of own area of responsibility
- Contribute to evaluating and improving organisational performance
- Contribute to evaluating and improving organisational performance
- Contribute to own personal development
- Contribute to own personal development
Design outdoor development training programmesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Design outdoor development training programmes
- Identify individual and group development needs, abilities and potential
- Identify individual and group development needs, abilities and potential
- Design programmes which meet individual and group development needs, abilities and potential
- Design programmes which meet individual and group development needs, abilities and potential
Design outdoor education programmesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Design outdoor education programmes
- Identify and agree individual and group educational needs
- Identify and agree individual and group educational needs
- Design an outdoor education programme
- Design an outdoor education programme
Design outdoor recreation programmesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Design outdoor recreation programmes
- Identify the recreational needs and aspirations of participants
- Identify the recreational needs and aspirations of participants
- Design an outdoor recreation programme
- Design an outdoor recreation programme
Establish and maintain effective working relationships in the outdoorsReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with participants and colleagues
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with participants and colleagues
- Work effectively with clients and colleagues
- Work effectively with clients and colleagues
- Delegate work and monitor and support colleagues
- Delegate work and monitor and support colleagues
Facilitate adventurous experiencesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate adventurous experiences
- Prepare for adventurous experiences
- Prepare for adventurous experiences
- Prepare participants for adventurous experiences
- Prepare participants for adventurous experiences
- Supervise and facilitate adventurous experiences
- Supervise and facilitate adventurous experiences
- Conclude and review adventurous experiences
- Conclude and review adventurous experiences
Facilitate education in the outdoorsReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate education in the outdoors
- Initiate the outdoor educational experience
- Initiate the outdoor educational experience
- Monitor, support and guide the educational experience
- Monitor, support and guide the educational experience
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants
Facilitate learning using outdoor development trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate learning using outdoor development training
- Establish and maintain a climate conducive to achieving specified learning outcomes
- Establish and maintain a climate conducive to achieving specified learning outcomes
- Facilitate participants’ individual learning and group development
- Facilitate participants’ individual and group development
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants
Facilitate participants’ investigation and understanding of the environmentReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for environmental investigation
- Prepare for environmental investigation
- Prepare participants for environmental investigation and understanding
- Prepare participants for environmental investigation and understanding
- Develop participants’ investigation skills and understanding of the environment
- Develop participants’ investigation skills and understanding of the environment
Facilitate recreation in the outdoorsReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate recreation in the outdoors
- Establish a climate conducive to recreation
- Establish a climate conducive to recreation
- Facilitate outdoor experiences to meet the recreational needs of participants
- Facilitate outdoor experiences to meet the recreational needs of participants
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants
- Manage the physical and emotional well-being of participants
Organise and supervise travelReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Organise travel arrangements
- Supervise journeys
- Follow legal and organisational requirements relating to travel
- Understand how to organise travel arrangements
- Understand the organisational and legislative requirements for travel
- Understand supervisory responsibilities required during journeys
Organise people and resources for outdoor programmesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Organise resources for the programme
- Organise resources for the programme
- Prepare self and others for the programme
- Prepare self and others for the programme
- Deal with resources after use
Promote the conservation of the environmentReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Promote the conservation of the environment
- Contribute to and implement codes of practice for using the environment
- Contribute to and implement codes of practice for using the environment
- Educate participants on the impact of activities on the environment
- Educate participants on the impact of activities on the environment
Promote the transfer of learning from outdoor experiencesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Facilitate learning through individual and shared reflection on experience
- Facilitate learning through individual and shared reflection on experience
- Help participants identify how they can transfer learning to other aspects of their lives
- Help participants identify how they can transfer learning to other aspects of their lives
Provide leadership in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sector context for leadership
- Understand own personal context for leadership
- Establish the conditions for effective leadership in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to lead other people
- Lead people in own area of responsibility
- Understand how to empower other people through leadership
- Empower other people through effective leadership
Supervise residential experiencesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise participants’ arrival
- Supervise participants’ arrival
- Supervise participants’ daily organisation
- Supervise participants’ daily organisation
- Organise participants’ sleeping arrangements
- Organise participants’ sleeping arrangements
- Supervise participants’ departure
- Supervise participants’ departure
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.
- Contribute to change through implementing and reviewing strategy and policy
- Contribute to own professional development as a sport and exercise scientist
- Contribute to the work of your team
- Create innovative outdoor programmes and activities to meet the needs and goals of clients
- Develop outdoor programmes
- Facilitate and deliver outdoor programmes
- Facilitate and deliver sustainable, safe, and effective outdoor and adventure programmes
- Facilitate participants’ investigation of the environment
Where this can lead
Roadshow Director
This role offers a clear path for those who want to become masters of high-stakes logistics and executive support within the critical world of investor relations. Your attention to detail and ability to keep things running smoothly are invaluable, and we're committed to helping you grow those skills into a rewarding career.
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 Active IQ Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Outdoor Programmes
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Active IQ.
- Contribute to improving personal and organisational performance
- Design outdoor development training programmes
- Design outdoor education programmes
- Design outdoor recreation programmes
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships in the outdoors
- Facilitate adventurous experiences
and 10 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.