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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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Open College Network Northern Ireland. It does the teaching and the mapping. Open College Network Northern Ireland sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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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
- Understand political structures available to support communities
- Understand civic structures available to support communities
- Understand the role of public bodies in supporting communities
- Understand the responsibilities of public bodies in supporting communities
- Understand collaborative working
- Understand partnership working
Community Development History and Context Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the historical background of local community development, including key events and influential figures.
- Be aware of issues which may impact on community development, including social, economic, and environmental factors.
Community Development Monitoring and Evaluation Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Know the purpose of monitoring and evaluation within community development, including its role in improving project effectiveness.
- Plan monitoring and evaluation activity, including identifying key indicators and data collection methods.
- Collect monitoring and evaluation data, using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Analyse monitoring and evaluation data, and draw conclusions about project performance.
Community Leadership Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key concepts, essential skills, and desirable qualities of effective community leadership.
- Assess and develop own leadership skills in the context of community development.
Community Learning for Social Change Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of community learning for social change
- Understand the practice of community learning for social change
- Identify own learning needs
- Reflect on own practice
Equality and Good Relations Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key concepts relating to equality and good relations, including definitions and practical applications.
- Understand the importance of Equality legislation, including its purpose and impact on communities.
- Understand what is meant by good relations, including the factors that contribute to positive relationships.
- Know the causes and consequences of conflict within and between communities, including the impact on individuals and society.
- Use a range of strategies to address community tension and conflict, including mediation and negotiation techniques.
Funding and Resourcing Community Projects Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and purpose of fundraising for community projects, including its importance in achieving project goals.
- Understand funding information policies and procedures, including application processes and reporting requirements.
- Carry out a funding activity for a community project, including planning, implementation, and evaluation.
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
- Recognise what is meant by charitable status
- Be aware of the roles of governing bodies
Group work and Collective Action Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why people become involved in groups
- Understand why people become involved in networks
- Understand group work principles
- Understand group work dynamics
- Understand the issues on inclusion within groups
- Understand the issues on exclusion within groups
Planning Community Projects Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of planning for community development, including its role in achieving sustainable outcomes.
- Engage communities in planning a community project, including facilitating participation and gathering input.
- Support community project planning, including providing resources and guidance.
Support Collaborative and Partnership Work Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the value and benefits of collaborative and partnership working for community groups and organisations.
- Understand different models of formal and informal partnership arrangements, including their respective advantages and disadvantages.
- Understand the potential implications, both positive and negative, for community groups or organisations when involved in partnership arrangements.
Understand and Engage with Communities Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and diversity of community development structures, recognising different organisational models and their functions
- Use a range of methods to understand and engage with individuals and diverse communities, adapting approaches to suit different contexts and needs
- Understand how legislation and policies impact on communities, recognising the legal and regulatory frameworks that affect their lives
- Understand the assets and needs within a community, identifying strengths and challenges to inform community development initiatives
Understanding 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 process 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
Understanding Community Planning Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and purpose of community planning.
- Know the stages and processes involved in effective community planning.
- Engage effectively with the community planning process, contributing to its development and implementation.
Understanding Social Enterprise Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and function of a social enterprise within the wider economy.
- Be aware of different legal and organisational structures available to social enterprises.
- Assess the viability of potential business ideas for development as successful social enterprises.
Understanding and Influencing Political Governance Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Know how political governance structures operate at various levels, including local, regional, and national.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of elected representatives within different political governance structures.
- Collaborate with others to effectively influence local decision-making processes.
Understanding the Strategic Planning process Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental concept of strategic planning within an organisational context.
- Know and describe the key stages involved in the strategic planning process.
- Conduct a strategic audit for 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.
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Advise on organisational structures to support community development
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Advise on organisational structures to support community development
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Develop and sustain cross-sectoral collaborative working for health and wellbeing
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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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Monitor and evaluate community development activities
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Monitor and evaluate community development activities
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Plan and gain resources and funding for sustainability
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Promote and support effective relationships between communities and public bodies and other agencies
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Promote and support effective relationships between communities and public bodies and other agencies
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Promote opportunities for community development learning
Showing 18 of 31 standards these units map to.
The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 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 Development History and ContextCommunity Development Monitoring and EvaluationCommunity LeadershipCommunity Learning for Social ChangeEquality and Good RelationsFunding and Resourcing Community ProjectsGovernance and Organisational Development
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.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Understanding Social Enterprise” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Funding and Resourcing Community Projects” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Community Development Monitoring and Evaluation” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Community Leadership” 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
- 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
- Integrate and use the values and process of community development
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 own work
Learners will gain knowledge of political, civic, and public body structures that support communities. The unit covers collabourative and partnership working, enabling learners to engage effectively with these structures to achieve community goals.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OCN NI Level 2 Certificate in Community Development
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland.
- Collaborative and Cross-sectoral Work
- Community Development History and Context
- Community Development Monitoring and Evaluation
- Community Leadership
- Community Learning for Social Change
- Equality and Good Relations
and 11 more in the full unit list below.
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