NOCN · RQF Level 7
NOCN_Cskills Awards Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Construction Senior Management (Construction)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits179
- Guided learning550 hours
- Units in this qualification24
Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NOCN 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.
Assess and evaluate the sustainability and environmental impact of developments in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Assess theenvironmental impact ofdevelopment proposals
- Understand how to assess theenvironmental impact ofdevelopment proposals
- Evaluate andpresent sustainable requirements
- Understand how to evaluateand present sustainablerequirements
- Identify andevaluate sustainable resources
- Understand how to identifyand evaluate sustainable resources
Control budgets and contract entitlement in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Allocate budgets
- Understand how to allocatebudgets
- Prepare and agreeentitlement for reimbursementfor loss and expense
- Understand how to prepareand agree entitlement forreimbursement for loss andexpense
Control projects in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Control projectsagainst quality standards.
- Understand how to controlprojects against qualitystandards.
- Ensure projectcompliance with legal andcontractual requirements.
- Understand how to ensureproject compliance with legaland contractual requirements.
- Control projectprogress against agreedprogramme.
- Understand how to controlproject progress against agreedprogramme.
- Control projectvalue and costs.
- Understand how to controlproject value and costs.
Develop self and others in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Manage your ownresources and undertakecontinuing personaldevelopment in the occupationalpractice area.
- Understand how to manageyour own resources andundertake continuing personaldevelopment in the occupationalpractice area.
- Enable people andyourself to learn and benefitfrom practice experience.
- Understand how to enablepeople and yourself to learn andbenefit from practice experience.
Direct the management of design development and processes in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and assesshazards, and identify risks
- Understand how to identifyand assess hazards, andidentify risks
- Make designchoices to reduce health andsafety risks
- Understand how to makedesign choices to reduce healthand safety risks
- Manage the designprocess
- Understand how to managethe design process
Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure that formsof contract are prepared
- Understand how to ensurethat forms of contract areprepared
- Ensure that thecontract is negotiated and agreed
- Understand how to ensurethat the contract is negotiatedand agreed
Establish project procurement arrangements in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Select and agreeprocurement strategies
- Understand how to select andagree procurement strategies
- Establish projectteam arrangements
- Understand how to establishproject team arrangements
- Recommend andagree a form of contract
- Understand how torecommend and agree a form ofcontract
Evaluate and progress the resolution of contractual disputes in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate potentialimplications for the resolution ofdisputes
- Understand how to evaluatepotential implications for theresolution of disputes
- Negotiate andprogress the resolution ofdisputes
- Understand how to negotiateand progress the resolution ofdisputes
Evaluate sustainable resources and requirements for the whole life cycle of a construction projectReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate projectwhole life and low carbon costs
- Understand how to evaluateproject whole life and lowcarbon costs
- Assess and providefor the conservation of energyuse
- Understand how to assessand provide for the conservationof energy use
Examine staff turnover issues in own area of responsibilityReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Examine thereasons for, and impact of, staffturnover whilst maintainingconfidentiality in own areaof responsibility.
- Compare staffturnover rates acrossorganisations.
- Understand how to turnunexpected staffing turnoverinto opportunities rather thanthreats.
Implement procurement processes in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate pre-qualificationof tenderers
- Understand how to evaluatepre-qualification of tenderers
- Obtain bids andtenders
- Understand how to obtain bidsand tenders
- Analyse and selectsuccessful bids and tenders andnegotiate changes
- Understand how to analyseand select successful bids andtenders and negotiate changes
Implement, monitor and control strategic procurement systems in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Agree andimplement systems withsuppliers and services
- Understand how to agree andimplement systems withsuppliers and services
- Monitor and controlarrangements for strategic sourcing
- Understand how to monitorand control arrangements forstrategic sourcing
Lead and manage meetingsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to lead ameeting.
- Manage meetingprocedures.
- Chair a meeting.
- Undertake postmeetingtasks.
Manage marketing and customer service in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and resource the development of new products and services to meet market needs
- Understand how to identify and resource the development of new products and services to meet market needs
- Develop and implement a marketing strategy
- Understand how to develop and implement a marketing strategy
- Develop and maintain a policy to maximise client and customer satisfaction
- Understand how to develop and maintain a policy to maximise client and customer satisfaction
Manage project processes in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Assess andmanage project risks andopportunities.
- Understand how to assessand manage project risks andopportunities
- Develop andmaintain systems for managinghealth, safety and welfare
- Understand how to developand maintain systems formanaging health, safety andwelfare
- Establish andmanage project team activities
- Understand how to establishand manage project teamactivities
- Implement projectorganisation and communicationsystems
- Understand how to implementproject organisation andcommunication systems
- Obtain and evaluateproject feedback
Manage teams in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Select and form aproject team
- Understand how to select andform a project team
- Develop andmaintain working relationships
- Understand how to developand maintain working
Manage the preparation and submission of estimates, bids and tenders in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate estimate,bid and tender enquirydocumentation
- Understand how to evaluateestimate, bid and tender enquirydocumentation
- Assess theresource requirements andcosts within an estimate, bid andtender
- Understand how to assess theresource requirements andcosts within an estimate, bid andtender
- Finalise and submitan estimate, bid and tender offer
- Understand how to finaliseand submit an estimate, bid andtender offer
Managing the handover of the construction project in the workplaceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm project requirements and consult with stakeholders and develop and agree a handover programme.
- Check that project requirements have been met, or record outstanding work in order to agree and arrange a satisfactory completion.
- Carry out handover inspections and appropriate tests ensuring they are witnessed by stakeholders and certificated in accordance with current legislation.
- Record stakeholder concerns during inspection and agree any required actions.
- Ensure that stakeholders’ respective responsibilities are accepted and adopted.
- Assemble and hand over appropriate docume
Participate in meetingsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for ameeting.
- Participate in ameeting.
- Communicateinformation to relevantstakeholders.
Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibilityReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a workplan for own area ofresponsibility.
- Allocate and agreeresponsibilities with teammembers.
- Monitor theprogress and quality of work inown area of responsibility andprovide feedback.
- Review and amendplans of work for own area ofresponsibility and communicatechanges.
Plan, allocate and monitor work of a teamReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work for ateam.
- Allocate workacross a team.
- Manage teammembers to achieve teamobjectives.
- Monitor andevaluate the performance ofteam members.
- Improve theperformance of a team.
Prepare and agree a project brief and outline programme in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare proposalfor a project brief
- Understand how to prepareproposal for a project brief
- Develop a projectoutline programme which meetsthe requirements of the brief
- Understand how to develop aproject outline programme whichmeets the requirements of thebrief
- Identify, assess andagree project requirements andstakeholder preferences
- Understand how to identify,assess and agree projectrequirements and stakeholder preferences
Provide advice, judgement and service ethically in construction managementReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Exchangeinformation and present adviceon technical issues
- Understand how to exchangeinformation and present adviceon technical issues
- Resolve complexindeterminate situations
- Understand how to resolvecomplex indeterminatesituations
- Practice within anethical framework
- Understand how to practicewithin an ethical framework
Recruit staff in own area of responsibilityReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Review humanresource requirements to meetbusiness objectives in own areaof responsibility.
- Understand the importance ofensuring that recruitment andselection processes meet legal,regulatory, ethical and socialrequirements.
- Participate in therecruitment and selectionprocess.
- Evaluate therecruitment and selectionprocess and identifyimprovements for the future.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 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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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.
- Assess and evaluate the sustainability and environmental impact of developments in construction management
- Control Contract Against Agreed Budgets
- Control Projects in Construction Management
- Determine the Environmental Impact Assessment requirements and review the Environmental Statement for a project proposal
- Develop self and others in construction management
- Direct design teams and communication
- Direct the control of project delivery against design
- Direct the management of design development and processes in construction management
Where this can lead
Senior Construction Safety Director
Your journey in safety is a continuous one. We're here to support your growth, whether that's becoming a leader of people or an unparalleled technical expert. The impact you'll make on people's lives and our business is truly profound.
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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 NOCN_Cskills Awards Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Construction Senior Management (Construction)
24 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Assess and evaluate the sustainability and environmental impact of developments in construction management
- Control budgets and contract entitlement in construction management
- Control projects in construction management
- Develop self and others in construction management
- Direct the management of design development and processes in construction management
- Ensure that contracts are prepared, negotiated and agreed in construction management
and 18 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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