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University of Ulster Advanced Diploma in Sustainable Investment for the Third Sector

Are you a Chief Executive, Finance Manager, Senior Manager, Trustee or Director in a Northern Ireland charity, voluntary or community organisation, or social enterprise?

Public funding is under threat at the same time as the recession is impacting social enterprise activity and fundraising. Change is therefore in the air and the third sector needs to respond to the new environment.  We are looking for third sector senior managers who have the mindset and the ambition to learn new skills and to engage with the new realities.

Applications are now invited for a practically orientated management development programme that is specifically geared towards those practicing managers who want to make change happen within the third sector.  In doing so, they will play a key role in taking the sector to the next level in terms of enhanced strategic financial management capability as well as making their organisations investment-ready. 

You’ll identify the relevant social values, and meet the people who are instrumental in building businesses that embody them: those who are committed to merging economic return with social justice, democratic participation with tough-minded execution, technological innovation together with individual commitment to helping their organisations rise to the new challenges.

The programme, commissioned by Charity Bank and delivered by the Ulster Business School in collaboration with Ortus, and CIPFA, will run from November 2011 until December 2012.  Workshops will be held on the Jordanstown campus on a part-time basis (two days per month during term-time) and will involve elements of theory, case studies and benchmarking, as well as a high degree of class participation and interaction.

The programme is structured around eight modules:

  • Strategic and Business Planning
  • Sources of Finance
  • Financial and Social Impact Measurement
  • Risk Management
  • Financial Stakeholder Marketing
  • The Procurement Process
  • Embedding the Plan
  • Advocacy

Applicants should:

  • Be either a Chief Executive, Finance Manager, Senior Manager, Trustee or Director within a Northern Ireland charity, voluntary or community organisation, or social enterprise
  • Have decision making responsibility for sourcing finance and/or managing funding once it has been secured 
  • Have a high level of input into the strategic financial management process within the organisation
  • Have a working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Email, the internet and social media websites
  • Be committed to actively participating during classroom sessions

Assessment is primarily assignment based, with successful completion leading to the award of the Advanced Diploma in Sustainable Investment for the Third Sector.

The programme cost is £500 per participant.

If you are interested in finding out more, please read the supporting information.

Deadline for Applications is the 11th November 2011.

  

Programme Overview

Programme Endorsements

Programme Induction

Programme Content

Key Programme Outputs / Assessment Tasks

Programme Timetable 

To Apply

 

 

                                                     Programme Format

 

                                   

For more information, please call the Programme Manager, Melanie Fitzpatrick, on 028 90311002

 

Programme Overview

Programme Endorsements

Programme Induction

Programme Content

Key Programme Outputs / Assessment Tasks

Programme Timetable 

 


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Investment Readiness Programme Endorsements

"This is an exciting and innovative course that meets the challenges and opportunities facing the community and voluntary sector in the next decade. The programme offers participants an engaged model of developing their skills and knowledge but in a way that is directly applied to their work."
Dr. Brendan Murtagh, Reader in Urban Regeneration, Queens University Belfast.

"A critical part of our strategy to build an enduring capacity is to help diversify support away from a sole reliance on government grants and support a number of social enterprise models that will build practices that offer more sustainable and effective solutions to age exclusion and that provide experiences, skills and knowledge to advocate with government, the sector and the business community. This is an exciting opportunity for those interested in looking at the opportunities in this area and to increase their knowledge and expertise."
Dr. Ken Logue, Programme Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies

"The Investment Readiness Programme for the community and voluntary sector commissioned by Charity Bank from the University of Ulster, Ortus and CIPFA is a timely and exciting initiative. The programme content looking at procurement, sources of finance and other areas such as financial and social impact measurement are important areas to be considered now and into the future. Building Change Trust is pleased to be associated with this initiative and is confident that the programme will make a real contribution to the sustainability of the sector."
Nigel McKinney, Building Change Trust