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 SFJ Awards 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 SFJ Awards awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from SFJ Awards.

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01What it is

The Level 2 certificate develops administrative support skills for public safety roles. It is suitable for individuals working in administration. Learners will develop skills in areas such as research, minute taking, travel arrangements, and coordinating interactions.

These are the units SFJ Awards 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 SFJ Awards. It does the teaching and the mapping. SFJ Awards 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

Administer finance Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll understand basic finance principles for administrators, including budgeting, record-keeping, and payment processing. They will develop skills to administer finance tasks such as processing invoices and managing petty cash in line with procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the basic principles of finance for administrators, including budgeting, financial record-keeping, and payment processing
  • Administer finance-related tasks effectively, such as processing invoices, managing petty cash, and reconciling bank statements, in accordance with organisational procedures
Administer the recruitment & selection process Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit covers the recruitment and selection process, including legal requirements and best practices. You'll learn to administer recruitment and selection activities fairly and transparently, applying organisational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the recruitment and selection process, including legal requirements and best practices
  • Administer the recruitment process, ensuring fairness and transparency in all stages
  • Administer the selection process, applying appropriate assessment methods to identify suitable candidates
Bespoke Systems Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll learn to input, combine, organise, and retrieve information using bespoke software applications. They will use software functions effectively to process and present information in accordance with organisational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Input and combine information accurately using bespoke applications, adhering to organisational procedures
  • Use appropriate structures to organise and retrieve information efficiently using bespoke applications, ensuring data integrity
  • Use the functions of bespoke software effectively to process and present information in a clear and concise manner
Buddy a colleague to develop their skills Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll understand the principles and benefits of buddying colleagues for skill development. They will plan buddying activities, set objectives, and support colleagues through guidance and feedback to enhance their work performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key principles and techniques involved in buddying a colleague to support their development
  • Plan a buddying programme for a colleague, including setting objectives and agreeing activities
  • Support a buddy colleague in carrying out work activities, providing guidance and feedback as required
Communicate in a business environment Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll explore effective communication principles in business, including planning, written and verbal communication, and the role of feedback. They will develop skills to produce clear, concise business communications suited to different channels.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose of planning communication in a business environment.
  • Understand how to communicate effectively in writing for business purposes.
  • Understand how to communicate verbally in a business environment.
  • Understand the purpose of feedback in developing communication skills.
  • Plan communication activities for a specific business purpose.
  • Produce written business communications that are clear, concise and accurate.
  • Communicate verbally in business environments, using appropriate language and tone.
  • Identify and agree ways of developing communication skills, based on feedback and self-reflection.
Contribute to the organisation of an event Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit provides knowledge of event organisation principles and processes. You'll contribute to event planning, setup, and post-event actions, recognising potential risks and adhering to organisational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and processes involved in event organisation.
  • Carry out pre-event actions, in line with organisational procedures.
  • Set up an event, ensuring all resources are available and ready for use.
  • Carry out post-event actions, including evaluation and reporting.
Coordinate Visitor and Service User Interactions Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit covers the coordination of visitor and service user interactions, emphasising the importance of positive experiences. You'll understand relevant protocols, etiquette, and organisational policies, and develop skills to manage these interactions professionally.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the coordination of visitor and service user interactions, including relevant protocols and etiquette
  • Coordinate visitor and service user interactions in a professional setting, ensuring a positive experience
Develop and deliver a presentation Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll understand how to develop and deliver presentations by analysing audiences, setting objectives, and selecting content. They will prepare and deliver presentations using effective verbal communication techniques.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key considerations when developing a presentation, including audience analysis, objective setting, and content selection
  • Understand the key techniques for delivering a presentation effectively, including verbal and non-verbal communication skills, use of visual aids, and handling questions
  • Develop a presentation that is well-structured, engaging, and appropriate for the intended audience and purpose
  • Prepare for and deliver a presentation confidently and effectively, using appropriate communication techniques and visual aids
Develop working relationships with colleagues Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit provides knowledge of effective team working and the importance of positive working relationships. You'll maintain professional interactions, demonstrate respect, and collabourate with colleagues to resolve problems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of effective team working within an organisation
  • Maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, demonstrating professionalism and respect
  • Collaborate with colleagues to resolve problems, contributing to a positive and productive work environment
Manage diary systems Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit provides knowledge of diary system management within organisations. You'll learn to schedule appointments, manage conflicts, and maintain accurate records using different types of diary systems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and processes involved in the management of diary systems within an organisation
  • Manage diary systems effectively, including scheduling appointments, managing conflicts, and maintaining accurate records
Manage personal performance and development Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll understand how to manage personal performance and development by planning work, being accountable, and supporting effective working behaviours. They will manage time and workload, identify development needs, and fulfil a personal development plan.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to plan work effectively and be accountable to others within the organisation
  • Understand how to behave in a way that supports effective working relationships and team performance
  • Manage personal performance to meet agreed objectives and standards
  • Manage own time and workload to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
  • Identify own development needs to enhance skills and knowledge
  • Fulfil a personal development plan by undertaking agreed learning activities
Organise travel or accommodation Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit provides learners with knowledge of organisational policies and procedures related to travel and accommodation. You'll learn to research options, consider individual needs and preferences, and make accurate travel or accommodation arrangements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the organisation of travel or accommodation for others, including relevant policies and procedures
  • Research travel or accommodation options for others, considering their needs and preferences
  • Make travel or accommodation arrangements for others, ensuring accuracy and efficiency
Payroll Processing Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll learn to process payroll accurately, including calculating income tax and national insurance contributions using HMRC-approved tools. They will also manage voluntary and statutory deductions and produce relevant pay period reports.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use HMRC approved tools to accurately calculate income tax deductions from gross pay
  • Determine the correct national insurance contributions to be deducted from gross pay, in accordance with current legislation
  • Determine voluntary deductions (e.g. pension contributions, charitable donations) and non-standard statutory deductions (e.g. student loan repayments, attachment of earnings orders)
  • Produce relevant pay period reports, including payroll summaries and individual payslips, ensuring accuracy and compliance
  • Record and reconcile payments and deductions to employees and external agencies (e.g. HMRC, pension providers), maintaining accurate financial records
Process information about customers Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit covers the principles of processing customer information, including data protection, confidentiality, and security. You'll learn to process customer information accurately and efficiently using appropriate systems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of processing customer information, including data protection regulations, confidentiality, and security procedures
  • Process customer information accurately and efficiently, using appropriate systems and procedures, while adhering to data protection regulations and organisational policies
Produce business documents Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll understand organisational standards for preparing business documents and develop the ability to produce and distribute accurate business documents using appropriate language and methods within agreed timescales.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to prepare business documents according to organisational standards
  • Prepare business documents accurately and efficiently
  • Distribute business documents using appropriate methods
Produce minutes of meetings Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll develop an understanding of the purpose and importance of taking minutes during meetings. The unit covers note-taking methods and teaches you to produce accurate, comprehensive minutes that capture key discussions, decisions, and action points.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to take minutes of meetings effectively
  • Take accurate and comprehensive notes of meetings
  • Produce clear and concise minutes of meetings
Research, organise and report data Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit equips learners with skills to research information effectively, organise data using methods such as tables and charts, and report findings clearly. You'll understand procedures for verifying information accuracy and be able to research and present data for others.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand procedures for researching information
  • Understand how to organise and report data that has been researched
  • Research information for others, using appropriate methods and sources
  • Report and organise data clearly and accurately
Solve business problems Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit provides knowledge of recognising and analysing business problems and their causes. You'll understand problem-solving techniques and develop, implement, and review solutions to improve organisational performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise business problems and their causes, identifying potential areas for improvement
  • Understand techniques for solving business problems, including problem analysis and solution development
  • Review approaches and solutions to business problems, evaluating their effectiveness and impact
  • Recognise business problems within the workplace, identifying their impact on organisational objectives
  • Plan and carry out a solution to a business problem, implementing agreed strategies and monitoring progress
  • Review a solution to the business problem, evaluating its success and identifying areas for further improvement
Spreadsheet Software Real unit · SFJ Awards
It teaches you to use spreadsheet software to enter, edit, and organise numerical and other data. You'll develop skills in applying formulas, data analysis tools, and presentation techniques to meet specific requirements effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use spreadsheet software to enter, edit and organise numerical and other data accurately and efficiently
  • Use spreadsheet software to select and apply appropriate formulas and data analysis tools to meet specific requirements
  • Use spreadsheet software to select and use tools and techniques to present and format spreadsheet information in a clear and professional manner
Store and retrieve information Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit covers the principles of information storage and retrieval systems. You'll learn to gather, store, and retrieve information accurately and securely, using appropriate tools and following organisational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of information storage and retrieval systems and processes.
  • Gather and store information accurately and securely, following organisational procedures.
  • Retrieve information efficiently and effectively, using appropriate search techniques and tools.
Support public-facing and internal service interactions Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll understand customer service principles in both public-facing and internal contexts. They will develop skills to build positive working relationships, deliver services to agreed standards, and resolve customer service problems effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of customer service delivery in both public-facing and internal contexts.
  • Build positive working relationships with internal customers, fostering collaboration and support.
  • Deliver customer services to agreed quality standards and timescales, meeting customer expectations.
  • Deal with customer service problems and complaints effectively and efficiently, resolving issues to customer satisfaction.
  • Monitor and evaluate customer services to customers, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes.
Use telephone & IT collaboration systems Real unit · SFJ Awards
This unit equips learners with knowledge of telephone and IT collabouration systems used in business. You'll practise making and receiving calls professionally and composing and sending clear messages following organisational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to make telephone calls effectively in a business context.
  • Understand how to use messaging and collaboration systems for business communication.
  • Make telephone calls, following organisational procedures and protocols.
  • Receive telephone calls, responding appropriately and professionally.
  • Compose and send messages using various communication systems, ensuring clarity and accuracy.
Website Software Real unit · SFJ Awards
You'll learn to create accessible and user-friendly website structures and styles. They will use website software tools to prepare, optimise content for search engines and target audiences, and publish websites meeting accessibility standards.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create structures and styles for websites, ensuring accessibility and user-friendliness
  • Use website software tools to prepare content for websites, optimising it for search engines and target audiences
  • Publish websites, ensuring they are accessible and functional across different devices and browsers
Word Processing Software Real unit · SFJ Awards
It teaches you to enter and combine text and other information accurately within word processing documents. They will create and modify layouts and use formatting tools to present documents effectively while ensuring data integrity.

What you'll be able to do

  • Enter and combine text and other information (e.g. images, tables, charts) accurately within word processing documents, ensuring data integrity
  • Create and modify layout and structures for word processing documents, including page setup, headers, footers, and section breaks, to meet specific requirements
  • Use word processing software tools to format and present documents effectively, including font selection, paragraph styling, and the use of templates, to meet specified requirements
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03Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

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Where this can lead

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This role lays a foundation in HR and payroll. It can lead to a senior payroll and HR analyst role, a payroll manager role, or a move into HR business partnering.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by SFJ Awards 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

Administer financeAdminister the recruitment & selection processBespoke SystemsBuddy a colleague to develop their skillsCommunicate in a business environmentContribute to the organisation of an eventCoordinate Visitor and Service User InteractionsDevelop and deliver a presentation

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 Practical Builder The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration
The Practical Builder Paste in the draft you have for “Administer finance”. Not a tidied one, the one you would actually send.
You It is mostly there. The recommendations section is thin.
The Practical Builder Thin is fine, vague is not. Take recommendation two and tell me who does what by when, then we will see if it survives.
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.
  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Administer finance” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Bespoke Systems” 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

    “Administer the recruitment & selection process” 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 Administer finance, one of this qualification's own units.

Administer finance Level 2

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Learners will understand basic finance principles for administrators, including budgeting, record-keeping, and payment processing. They will develop skills to administer finance tasks such as processing invoices and managing petty cash in line with procedures.

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 SFJ Awards Level 2 Certificate in Administrative Support for Public Safety Roles

24 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFJ Awards.

  1. Administer finance
  2. Administer the recruitment & selection process
  3. Bespoke Systems
  4. Buddy a colleague to develop their skills
  5. Communicate in a business environment
  6. Contribute to the organisation of an event

and 18 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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