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How you’d get it

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 Chartered Management Institute 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 Chartered Management Institute awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Chartered Management Institute.

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01What it is

Deliver the CMI Level 3 Sustainability Management qualification - ideal for supervisors and first line managers. Equip learners with key skills in sustainable leadership and practice.

These are the units Chartered Management Institute 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 Chartered Management Institute. It does the teaching and the mapping. Chartered Management Institute 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

Developing and Sharing Good Practice in Sustainability Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit provides learners with knowledge of good practice in sustainability, including its benefits, identification, development, implementation, maintenance, and improvement. You'll also learn how to share good practice effectively with stakeholders within organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the benefits of good practice
  • Identify good practice
  • Develop good practice
  • Understand how good practice can be implemented, maintained and improved
  • Share good practice with stakeholders
Ethical Management and Leadership for Sustainability Practice Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
It teaches you to understand the role of ethical management and leadership in supporting sustainability practice. You'll develop their ethical capabilities, assess their skills using tools, and create personal development plans to enhance ethical leadership.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explain the role of ethical management and leadership in supporting sustainability practice
  • Develop ethical management and leadership capabilities for sustainability practice
Implementing Operational Sustainability Practices Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll explore the role of First Line Managers in achieving organisational sustainability goals and develop plans to implement sustainability practices in operational activities. This unit focuses on identifying opportunities and preparing implementation plans within operational contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explain the role of the First Line Manager in achieving organisational sustainability goals
  • Present a plan to implement sustainability practices successfully into operational activities
Introduction To Sustainability Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit introduces learners to external influences on sustainable practices within organisations and approaches to enhance sustainability. You'll outline global and national sustainability challenges and identify frameworks and methods to improve sustainable organisational practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explain external influences on sustainable practices within an organisation
  • Describe approaches that can be applied to enhance sustainable practice in an organisation
Managing Data and Information Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
This unit covers the reasons for collecting data and information in organisations, types and uses of data, and effective data management. You'll learn to interpret data and communicate findings while considering legal and organisational requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the reasons for collecting data and information
  • Know the types and use of data and information used by organisations
  • Manage data and information
  • Interpret data and information and communicate findings
Monitoring Quality to Improve Outcomes Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll understand the purpose of monitoring quality in organisations and the use of quality systems, tools, and techniques to monitor and report outcomes. This unit covers accredited quality standards and internal systems to improve organisational performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose of monitoring quality in the organisational context
  • Understand the use of quality systems and tools and techniques for monitoring outcomes
  • Monitor quality and report on outcomes
Undertaking a Sustainability Project Real unit · Chartered Management Institute
You'll gain skills to plan and undertake sustainability projects, defining aims, objectives, and scope. This unit covers information gathering, tool selection, project planning, and reflecting on project activities to deliver sustainability initiatives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan a project to deliver a sustainability initiative
  • Undertake a project to deliver a sustainability initiative
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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.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 20 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Lead Sustainability Implementation Manager

This work can lead to running sustainability strategy at director level, taking on a chief sustainability officer role, or moving into operations leadership more broadly.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Chartered Management Institute 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

Developing and Sharing Good Practice in SustainabilityEthical Management and Leadership for Sustainability PracticeImplementing Operational Sustainability PracticesIntroduction To SustainabilityManaging Data and InformationMonitoring Quality to Improve OutcomesUndertaking a Sustainability Project

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 Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Implementing Operational Sustainability Practices” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
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.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Implementing Operational Sustainability Practices” 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

    “Managing Data and Information” 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

    “Ethical Management and Leadership for Sustainability Practice” 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 Developing and Sharing Good Practice in Sustainability, one of this qualification's own units.

Developing and Sharing Good Practice in Sustainability Level 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Lead Sustainability Implementation ManagerManager, Sustainable OperationsPrincipal Manager, Sustainable OperationsSenior Sustainability Implementation ManagerGlobal Sustainable Operations ManagerDirector, Sustainable Operations

This unit provides learners with knowledge of good practice in sustainability, including its benefits, identification, development, implementation, maintenance, and improvement. Learners will also learn how to share good practice effectively with stakeholders within organisations.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

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Your Plan Illustration

Built for CMI Level 3 Diploma in Sustainability Principles for First Line Managers

7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Management Institute.

  1. Developing and Sharing Good Practice in Sustainability
  2. Ethical Management and Leadership for Sustainability Practice
  3. Implementing Operational Sustainability Practices
  4. Introduction To Sustainability
  5. Managing Data and Information
  6. Monitoring Quality to Improve Outcomes

and 1 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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