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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Open College Network Northern Ireland has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Open College Network Northern Ireland awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Open College Network Northern Ireland.
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These are the units Open College Network Northern Ireland 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Collaborative and Cross-Sectoral Work Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Identify political structures available to support communities
- Identify civic structures available to support communities
- Explain the roles and responsibilities of public bodies in supporting communities
- Describe the principles of collaborative working
- Explain the benefits of partnership working
Community Leadership and Management Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different leadership and management theories, styles and models
- Understand the skills required to be an effective leader
- Understand the skills required to be an effective manager
- Apply creative leadership skills to meet own community development needs
- Apply innovative leadership skills to meet own community development needs
Community Learning for Social Change Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Identify formal community development learning opportunities
- Identify informal community development learning opportunities
- Describe the characteristics of participatory learning methods
- Apply participatory learning methods with a community group
- Evaluate the effectiveness of participatory learning methods used with a community group
Governance and Organisational Development Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand appropriate organisational structures for community development
- Understand appropriate legal structures for community development
- Understand what is meant by charitable status for an organisation
- Understand the roles of governing bodies within organisations
Group Work Skills Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the reasons why people become involved in groups or networks
- Identify different group roles
- Analyse the impact of different group roles on group effectiveness
- Explain the dynamics of group behaviour
- Describe the processes for developing group objectives
- Describe the processes for developing group priorities
- Explain issues relating to inclusion within groups
- Explain issues relating to exclusion within groups
Group Work and Collective Action Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the skills required to create an effective group
- Understand issues relating to inclusion within groups
- Understand issues relating to exclusion within groups
- Understand issues relating to engagement within groups
Support Collaborative and Partnership Work Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the value of partnership working within community development
- Understand models of formal partnership arrangements
- Understand models of informal partnership arrangements
- Understand the implications for community groups when involved in partnership arrangements
- Understand the implications for community organisations when involved in partnership arrangements
- Understand the techniques involved in partnership working
- Understand the approaches involved in partnership working
- Recognise what constitutes good decision making processes
- Recognise what constitutes accountability within partnership working
Understand Community Development Practice Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of community development
- Understand the context of community development
- Know the values of community development practice
- Apply the values of community development practice
- Know the process of community development practice
- Apply the process of community development practice
Understand and Engage with Communities Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the range of community development structures
- Describe the diversity of community development structures
- Select appropriate methods to understand individuals within communities
- Select appropriate methods to engage with individuals within communities
- Select appropriate methods to understand diverse communities
- Select appropriate methods to engage with diverse communities
- Gather research information for a community audit
- Gather statistical information for a community audit
- Produce a community audit using research and statistical information
Understanding the Strategic Planning Process Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental concepts underpinning strategic planning.
- Understand the key stages involved in the strategic planning process.
- Conduct a strategic audit of a specified organisation, identifying its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Advise on organisational structures to support community development
- Standard
Advise on organisational structures to support community development
- Standard
Develop and sustain cross-sectoral collaborative working for health and wellbeing
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Enable groups, communities and organisations to determine and plan how to address their issues and concerns
- Standard
Encourage and support public bodies to build effective relationships with communities
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Encourage and support public bodies to build relationships with communities
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Facilitate Community Leadership
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Facilitate community leadership
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Facilitate community learning for social and political development
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Get to know a community
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Get to know a community
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Integrate and use the values and process of community development
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Manage internal organisational development and external relationships
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Promote and support effective relationships between communities and public bodies and other agencies
- Standard
Promote and support effective relationships between communities and public bodies and other agencies
- Standard
Promote opportunities for community development learning
- Standard
Promote opportunities for community development learning
- Standard
Relate to Different Communities
Showing 18 of 30 standards these units map to.
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Director of Community
This role can lead to Chief Customer Officer, overseeing the whole customer journey, or Chief Digital Officer, driving digital transformation across a business.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Collaborative and Cross-Sectoral WorkCommunity Leadership and ManagementCommunity Learning for Social ChangeGovernance and Organisational DevelopmentGroup Work SkillsGroup Work and Collective ActionSupport Collaborative and Partnership WorkUnderstand Community Development Practice
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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- Lead it Apply
“Community Leadership and Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Advise on organisational structures to support community development
- Develop and sustain cross-sectoral collaborative working for health and wellbeing
- Enable groups, communities and organisations to determine and plan how to address their issues and concerns
- Encourage and support public bodies to build effective relationships with communities
- Encourage and support public bodies to build relationships with communities
- Facilitate Community Leadership
- Facilitate community learning for social and political development
- Get to know a community
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Collaborative and Cross-Sectoral Work, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with an understanding of political and civic structures supporting communities and the roles of public bodies. Learners will explore principles of collabourative and partnership working and their benefits for community support.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OCN NI Level 3 Certificate in Community Development
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland.
- Collaborative and Cross-Sectoral Work
- Community Leadership and Management
- Community Learning for Social Change
- Governance and Organisational Development
- Group Work Skills
- Group Work and Collective Action
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
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