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How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ATHE Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and ATHE Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ATHE Ltd.

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01What it is

Unlike our core portfolio of qualifications, which offer broad appeal and are open to all our centres, Bespoke Qualifications are tailored to centres’ specialist course content and meet the needs of their learners and sector. You can browse our portfolio by level to the right of this page.

These are the units ATHE Ltd 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.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with ATHE Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. ATHE Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS) Real unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the key components, roles, and responsibilities within an Incident Command Structure (ICS). You'll analyse critical issues in developing ICS for various incidents, emphasising communication and coordination.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the critical issues associated with the development and delivery of an effective Incident Command Structure (ICS).
Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectives Real unit · ATHE Ltd
It teaches you to develop an original academic response in the form of a Policy White Paper, integrating practitioner experience with academic litreature. You'll evaluate strategic risks and analyse crisis management perspectives to synthesise a 'pracademic' approach.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop a Policy White Paper that demonstrates a fully developed ‘pracademic’ approach to the subject and literature, combining practitioner experience with a sound understanding of the academic literature.
Managing the Crisis Response Real unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll understand theoretical and practical models of crisis management response. The unit involves analysing these models, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, and developing an integrated framework applicable to diverse crisis situations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the ways in which theoretical and actual models of crisis management response work and can be developed into an integrated framework that has utility in a crisis management environment.
Mapping the Future Real unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll understand emergent risks facing organisations and analyse these within a strategic framework. The unit supports the development of future strategy-setting and decision-making by evaluating the potential impact of such risks on organisational operations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the overall nature of emergent risks currently faced by organisations.
  • Analyse the emergent risks within a framework that supports future strategy-setting.
  • Apply the framework to support effective decision-making processes.
Resilience Real unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll study different approaches to organisational resilience within a crisis management context. The unit covers various dimensions and strategies of resilience, enabling learners to evaluate their application in developing resilient organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the different approaches to resilience.
  • Analyse how different approaches to resilience can be utilised in developing resilient organisations.
  • Evaluate the application of resilience approaches within a crisis management context.
Sense-Making and Decision-Making in Crisis Environments Real unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll explore academic models of sense-making and decision-making relevant to crisis management. The unit covers key components of these models and their application in understanding complex crisis situations to support effective decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the main academic models of sense-making.
  • Understand the main academic models of decision-making.
  • Evaluate how sense-making models can be utilised in a crisis management context.
  • Evaluate how decision-making models can be utilised in a crisis management context.
Understanding Contemporary Strategic Risk and Crisis Management Real unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the contemporary risk environment, highlighting key characteristics and trends shaping the 21st-century risk landscape. You'll evaluate the influence of globalisation, technology, and political instability on strategic risk and crisis management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the changing nature of the risk environment in the 21st century, specifically the 2020s.
  • Evaluate the key factors contributing to the evolving risk landscape.
  • Analyse the implications of the changing risk environment for strategic risk and crisis management.
Understanding the Crisis Environment Real unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit examines a crisis management model that addresses the complexity of emergent risks and threats. You'll analyse how the model supports risk identification and the development of appropriate risk and crisis management frameworks and protocols.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand a model of crisis management that considers the complexity of the emergent risk and threat environment.
  • Analyse how the model supports the development of appropriate risk management frameworks.
  • Analyse how the model supports the development of appropriate crisis management protocols.
  • Analyse how the model supports the development of appropriate crisis management capabilities.
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03Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

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Where this can lead

Resilience Manager

This work can lead to leading larger teams, specialising as a risk expert, or moving into broader operations leadership.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ATHE Ltd 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

Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS)Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectivesManaging the Crisis ResponseMapping the FutureResilienceSense-Making and Decision-Making in Crisis EnvironmentsUnderstanding Contemporary Strategic Risk and Crisis ManagementUnderstanding the Crisis Environment

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 The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach You have to tell the team what “Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectives” means for them next month. Say it to me now, the way you would say it to them.
You The new process goes live on the 3rd and full training will be provided.
The Coach That is the announcement. Now try the one that starts with the bit they are going to hate, and we will see which you would rather receive.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
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    “Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectives” 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.

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 Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS), one of this qualification's own units.

Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS) Level 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Resilience ManagerCrisis Management SpecialistSenior Resilience SpecialistCrisis Management Specialist ManagerLead Crisis Management SpecialistLead Resilience Strategist

This unit provides learners with knowledge of the key components, roles, and responsibilities within an Incident Command Structure (ICS). Learners will analyse critical issues in developing ICS for various incidents, emphasising communication and coordination.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for ATHE Level 6 Diploma in Strategic Risk and Crisis Management

8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.

  1. Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS)
  2. Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectives
  3. Managing the Crisis Response
  4. Mapping the Future
  5. Resilience
  6. Sense-Making and Decision-Making in Crisis Environments

and 2 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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