Managing People and Projects in Emergencies - Credit-Rated
Date:
19 - 23 Nov 2012
Length: 5 days
Location: London, UK
Residential: No
Managing people and projects can be difficult at the best of times, but during the chaos and stress of a complex emergency, being able to deliver quality outputs on time and under pressure is crucial to any humanitarian response.
Managing People and Projects in Emergencies is a 5 day course that aims to develop the competencies needed to manage people and projects effectively and apply them in a humanitarian context. The course focuses on the application of management tools, techniques and approaches in the field and on the nature of working in a humanitarian response.
Who should attend?
What does the course cover?
- The nature and impact of emergencies
- The role and qualities of the manager in a humanitarian response
- Communication skills
- Conducting needs assessments
- Securing funding
- Project planning using Log Frames
- Accountability to beneficiaries
- Establishing and developing teams
- Implementing projects
- Leadership
- Developing individuals using coaching, feedback and performance management
- Remote and distant management
- Financial management
- Risk management
- Coordination and collaboration with partners, Governments and other humanitarian actors in the cluster system
- Conflict management and negotiation
- Project closure and exit strategies
- Project evaluation and reporting
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Describe the role and characteristics of an effective manager in humanitarian practice
- List management competencies and examine them in a theoretical and practical humanitarian context
- Apply techniques for managing people and projects to the humanitarian context
- Evaluate and reflect on personal performance in project and people management
- Identify personal strengths and weaknesses in relation to managing people and projects and devise a personal development plan to improve practice
The assessment:
Managing People and Projects in Emergencies is a competency based, assessed course worth 10 Masters level credits that can be transferred to the Masters in Development and Emergency Practice (DEP) from Oxford Brookes University or other similar postgraduate qualifications. For more infomation about this and the other credit rated courses that RedR offers click here.
Registration and timings
Registration will be from 8.45 am on Monday. Each day will run from 9 am and conclude at 5.30 pm.
Cost
Band A: £600
Band B: £780
Band C: £1014
Band D: £1318
The fees are inclusive of your course resources, lunch and refreshments throughout the day. For further information on price bands please use the link on the right.
Participants on this course are eligible for the RedR Training Loyalty Scheme.
For more information please contact our training team.
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