BIIAB · RQF Level 2
BIIAB Level 2 Certificate in Community Arts Administration
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits26
- Guided learning165 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by BIIAB · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units BIIAB 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.
Assist in developing, delivering and evaluating projectsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the development of aims and objectives for a project
- Contribute to the tracking and monitoring of a project
- Evaluate the success of a project
Assist in pitching for community arts workReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the preparation of a pitch
- Understand the importance of meeting the criteria and needs of funding bodies or commissioners
- Contribute to a pitch for community arts work
Assist in securing funding for community arts projectsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Know potential sources of funding/income streams for the organisation
- Assist in the completion of funding applications
- Assist in the construction of an income and expenditure budget
Assisting with daily financial issuesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain accurate and up to date financial records
- Follow company policy in relation to purchase orders , petty cash, floats and per diems
Keep up to date with developments in the artsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to carry out research to keep up to date with developments in the arts
- Understand how to present clear and accurate information
- Understand how to develop networks
- Keep up to date with developments in own organisation and sector
Make and receive telephone callsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to make telephone calls
- Understand how to receive and transfer telephone calls
- Make telephone calls
- Receive telephone calls
Manage and market own freelance servicesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Market own services
- Manage own performance
- Manage own systems, accounts and records
- Manage own contracts
Organise and report dataReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to organise and report data that has been researched
- Organise data
- Report data
Support fundraising for a creative and cultural organisationReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Answer enquiries from current and potential funders
- Provide administrative support and co-ordination for fundraising activities
- Collect and provide information to assist with fundraising
Support marketing activities in a creative and cultural contextReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Answer enquiries from customers accurately and professionally, providing relevant information and assistance.
- Keep records of customer interactions, maintaining accurate and up-to-date information for future reference.
- Provide administrative support for marketing activities, assisting with tasks such as scheduling meetings and managing correspondence.
- Provide co-ordination for marketing activities, ensuring smooth and efficient execution of marketing plans.
- Collect information to assist with marketing, gathering relevant data from various sources.
- Provide information to assist with marketing, presenting data in a clear and concise manner.
Support the organisation of an eventReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and purpose of providing support with the organisation of an event
- Support the organisation of an event
Support the organisation of business travel or accommodationReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of confirming a brief and budget for business travel or accommodation
- Know the sources of information and facilities available to make business travel or accommodation arrangements
- Support the organisation with business travel or accommodation arrangements
Understand the process for developing and evaluating projectsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop aims and objectives for a project
- Understand how to track and monitor a project
- Understand the process for evaluating a project
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young peopleReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people
- Understand the types of transitions affecting children and young people
- Understand the nature and importance of their role in multi-agency and integrated working in meeting the needs of children and young people
- Understand the importance of information sharing
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young people, and its impactReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to promote effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of, and the impact of this upon, children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people, and associated responsibilities and procedures
- Understand how to support children and young people through transitions, and circumstances requiring specialist support
- Understand sources of information regarding individual children, young people and families/carers, and the importance of effective information sharing
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Use a diary systemReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a diary system
- Understand how to use a diary system
- Use a diary system
Use electronic message systemsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of electronic message systems
- Use electronic message systems
Working in a teamReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Apply the skills needed to form collabourative relationships.
- Adapt their behaviour within a team to ensure successful working relationships are established and maintained.
- Know the approaches that can be used to resolve issues and achieve team goals.
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 2 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.
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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.
- Assist with planning fundraising activity
- Evaluate arts projects and live events
- Keep up
- Maintain the Knowledge and Contacts Required for Your Work
- Prepare information to support funding and sponsorship applications for arts projects and live events
- Support the development, delivery and evaluation of community arts projects
Where this can lead
Associate Local Marketing Coordinator
Your journey starts here by mastering the fundamentals. Show us your dedication, your knack for detail, and your passion for connecting with local communities, and we'll help you build a rewarding career in marketing.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 10 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 BIIAB Level 2 Certificate in Community Arts Administration
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by BIIAB.
- Assist in developing, delivering and evaluating projects
- Assist in pitching for community arts work
- Assist in securing funding for community arts projects
- Assisting with daily financial issues
- Keep up to date with developments in the arts
- Make and receive telephone calls
and 12 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.