ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 4
ATHE Level 4 Extended Diploma in Sports Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits120
- Guided learning480 hours
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Corporate Social ResponsibilityReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues facing businesses.
- Understand the impact of corporate social responsibility policies and practices on different stakeholders.
- Make recommendations for responsible business practice, considering ethical and sustainable approaches.
Cultural PerspectivesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the concept of culture in an interconnected world
- Explain the importance of ethics when promoting positive intercultural relations
- Explain the importance of values when promoting positive intercultural relations
- Explain the importance of decision-making when promoting positive intercultural relations
- Describe cultural frameworks relevant to a business environment
- Describe contemporary issues relevant to a business environment
- Review own cultural assumptions
- Review own cultural perspectives
Digital CommunicationsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of digital communications technologies, including their features, capabilities, and limitations.
- Understand the impact of digital communications on individuals, organisations, and society, including both positive and negative effects.
- Understand issues of accessibility, security, and portability in digital communications, and how to address them.
- Understand blogging, digital content management, and social networking platforms, including their uses, best practices, and potential risks.
Financial Accounting 1Real unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the regulatory framework and standards for financial reporting.
- Prepare and interpret a statement of cash flows, in accordance with accounting standards.
- Prepare a credit control policy for an organisation.
Financial and Management Accounting Techniques for ManagersReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand financial and management accounting systems, including their purpose, components, and interrelationships.
- Can assess business organisation performance using financial and non-financial data, and identify areas for improvement.
- Can apply management accounting techniques for decision-making, including cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, and variance analysis.
Health, Fitness and ExerciseReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of fitness and the various components of physical fitness.
- Understand the positive consequences of physical activity and healthy eating habits on overall health and well-being.
- Understand the application of key variables and principles of fitness to the design and implementation of effective exercise programmes.
Introduction to the Sports and Leisure SectorsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of sport and leisure organisations that exist.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of different types of sport and leisure provision.
- Understand the factors that impact on inclusion and accessibility in sport and leisure activities.
Managing Information and KnowledgeReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the meaning of information and knowledge in the workplace
- Identify different sources of information and knowledge relevant to the workplace
- Explain how information and knowledge are shared in the workplace
- Explain how information and knowledge are used in the workplace
- Explain the importance of information and knowledge in the workplace
- Explain the importance of using current information and knowledge in the workplace
- Explain the importance of using valid information and knowledge in the workplace
- Explain the importance of using reliable information and knowledge in the workplace
- Describe policies for managing information in the workplace
- Describe procedures for managing information in the workplace
- Summarise relevant legislation for managing information
- Describe best practice for managing information
Principles of Management and Human ResourcingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the concept of Management and its key functions
- Explain the Human Resource Management (HRM) function within an organisation
- Describe different Human Resource Management (HRM) practices
Professional and Academic SkillsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of academic and workplace skills for personal and professional development.
- Apply academic skills, such as research, analysis, and critical thinking, in practical workplace scenarios.
- Reflect on the effectiveness of own skills in academic and workplace contexts, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
- Plan to improve academic and workplace skills through targeted training, development activities, and self-directed learning.
Sales and MarketingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key functions of marketing within an organisation.
- Understand the elements of the marketing mix and how they are applied.
- Understand and apply effective selling process skills.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 4 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
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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
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Where this can lead
Sports Marketing Coordinator
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're here to provide the opportunities, the learning, and the support. With hard work, curiosity, and a bit of that competitive spirit, you could build an incredible career in sports marketing with us. Let's get started!
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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
Learners will explore current corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues affecting businesses and analyse the impact of CSR policies on various stakeholders. The unit enables learners to make informed recommendations for responsible business practices, considering ethical and social implications.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ATHE Level 4 Extended Diploma in Sports Management
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Cultural Perspectives
- Digital Communications
- Financial Accounting 1
- Financial and Management Accounting Techniques for Managers
- Health, Fitness and Exercise
and 5 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.
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