The 1st4sport Level 3 Certificate in Managing Sports Volunteers is the new qualification that recognises and provides volunteer managers working within sport with the knowledge and skills needed to excel and become a more effective manager of volunteers.
FAQs
Who is the qualification for?
What will you learn?
Why should you take the course?
What are your options and how much does it cost?
How will the learning programme be structured?
What will your assessment involve?
Book a place on a course
Other training providers offering the qualification
Who is the Qualification for?
Anyone who manages volunteers (directly or indirectly) and is responsible for club development and volunteer management and support, for example:
- governing body of sport volunteer managers
- county sports partnership managers
- local authority sports development officers
- FE/HE volunteer managers.
What Will you Learn?
The qualification consists of 4 units: Managing Yourself; Managing People; Managing Resources to Support Sports Volunteers; and Managing a Community of Sports Volunteers. They combine to provide 60 guided learning hours.
Summary of the learning content
Managing Yourself focuses upon the skills candidates need as a volunteer manager to manage themselves and the workforce around them. It focuses upon managing time, managing change, continued professional development, leadership and influencing skills.
Managing People focuses upon establishing skills to specifically develop sports volunteers, how best to manage challenges in working with people and developing skills to work effectively with, and within, teams.
Managing Resources to Support Sports Volunteers equips candidates who are volunteer managers with the skills to effectively monitor and evaluate services, and to look at financial and policy-related areas of the role.
Managing a Community of Sports Volunteers explores the challenges of diversity, strategic issues around volunteering and the quality standard for volunteering – Investing in Volunteers.
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Why Should you Take the Course?
1. Specifically tailored to those working in sport, it’s an excellent continued professional development opportunity and CV enhancer if you are involved in this sector and will enable you to:
- get the best out of yourself and the workforce around you
- develop sports volunteers and manage and overcome the challenges in working with people
- monitor and evaluate services, understand budgeting and funding, use policy and law
- tackle the challenges of diversity and maximise your community’s volunteering opportunities.
2. runningsports helped develop the qualification. It is based on the Excellence in Volunteer Management Endorsed Programme, which was created by, and is the intellectual property of, Volunteering England. So if you’re responsible for developing volunteering in sport, you can be confident in the content of the qualification and its relevance to you.
3. It’s an excellent opportunity to share your ideas and experience with others and learn from theirs, perhaps even giving you the insight to take a different approach to your work.
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What are your Options and How Much does it Cost?
Flexible learning is available to reflect your existing knowledge, experience and learning style(s).
- Full learning programme
Completing the full learning programme will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to excel as a manager of volunteers. Achieving the qualification provides recognition that you can be effective in this role.
The cost is £1000 + VAT and includes:
- your registration for the learning programme and qualification
- the full learning programme – classes and e-learning
- a set of 4 invaluable resources.
- a Candidate Pack for assessment
- tutor guidance
- assessment
- certification for a nationally recognised Level 3 qualification.
- Fast-track qualification
If you already have the knowledge, you can gain the qualification by completing just the assessment*.
The cost is £500 + VAT and includes:
- your registration for the qualification
- a Candidate Pack for assessment
- assessment
- certification for a nationally recognised Level 3 qualification.
*Should choose to complete just the assessment, please be aware that you will not have access to the learning programme or guidance from tutors.
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How will the Learning Programme be Structured?
The learning programme consists of a mixture of classroom-based and e-learning.
The pilot course of learning was typically completed in 12 weeks, consisting of 4 2-day workshops and 2 1-day workshops with 3 weeks of e-learning between classes. You will have 3 years to complete your portfolio of evidence for assessment.
What will your Assessment Involve?
There are two alternative routes through the assessment process:
- using the questions/tasks in the Candidate Pack
- choosing a real, work-based project to illustrate your competencies.
For either option, you will be required to produce a portfolio of evidence.
Option 1:
The portfolio will consist of a fully completed Candidate Pack, self-assessments and tutor comments.
Option 2:
Where possible, this evidence should be formed from work carried out in the workplace/other environment. This may include:
- reports, presentations and/or other documentation that you have written and produced to demonstrate learning and application
- demonstrating how learning has been applied from other work that has been produced (eg applying Active People data relevant to the organisation and describing its impact).
Please be aware that the two methods can be used across the qualification, but not mixed per unit.
More information on the above will be provided in your Candidate Pack.
Book a Place on a Course
runningsports is delivering this course in London, for further details including course dates and an application form, click here.
If you have any questions about the course please complete an enquiry form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Other Training Providers Offering the Qualification
- Leeds Metropolitan University
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