Certified Community Director
Certified Community Director is a seven-unit micro-credential for community board members.
Study the perfect board of directors course, at your own pace and on your own time!
Complete all seven units to become a Certified Community Director.
The cost for unit 1 of this course is $290.00 (inc. GST). Units 2-7 cost $140.00 (inc. GST) each. Purchase all 7 units at once and receive the final unit free (bundle price $990.00 inc GST).
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Unit 1: Governance Foundations
This course provides an introduction to community sector governance, including the roles and responsibilities of a board member, legal structures, board meetings and the constitution.
Unit 2: Understand and cultivate culture through recruitment
This unit provides an introduction to understanding the impact of external and internal factors that influence board and organisational culture as well as strategies for successful recruitment for CEOs and board members.
Unit 3: Strategic planning and change management
This unit introduces the need for and advice on strategic planning for the board as well as frameworks for managing change in the organisation.
Unit 4: Managing your funds
This unit provides an introduction to the key financial responsibilities of not-for-profit board members, including an overview of the main finance reports.
Unit 5: Effective communication for board members
This unit provides an introduction to communication strategies that boards can consider when sharing information, updates, and advocacy with internal and external stakeholders.
Unit 6: Conflict resolution and negotiation techniques for boards
This unit introduces reasons for and impacts of conflict within the board and across the organisation as well as techniques and strategies for negotiation and resolution.
Unit 7: Finding funds
This unit introduces the seven pillars of funding for not-for-profit organisations and provides advice on effective fundraising strategies.
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Access all seven units of Certified Community Director for just $990.00 inc GST ($140.00 discount on full price). Simply click the green button "Get all for A$990.00" after clicking the button below.
Enrol for Certified Community Director (Advanced)!
Ready to put your knowledge into action? Join CCD (Advanced) – a live program which explores everything learned in the self-paced version of the course through interactive board scenarios and discussions.
FAQs
To resume your studies please head to https://training.communitydirectors.com.au and login to your account.
A self-paced course means you can complete your studies in your own time and schedule. You can proceed from one topic or segment to the next at your speed without any time limit.
All unit information can be found here: https://training.communitydirectors.com.au/certified-community-director
You can find our bookings and refunds policy here: https://communitydirectors.com.au/uploads/general/CCD-Booking-and-Refunds-Policy.pdf
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In order to be assessed, you will be required to complete each chapter of each unit. This will include responding to questions, completing quizzes, and other interactive elements.
Each unit takes approximately 1.5 hours to complete.
Access to the course expires after 12 months. Throughout the 12 months you can pause and restart your course at anytime and at your own pace.
The course has been designed to suit an intermediate level. This course will provide the key information all board members should know to effectively fulfill their roles and responsibilities as well as prompts to enhance and extend your governance practice.
This course will assist with future board appointments through enabling you to participate fully in discussions regarding finances, strategy, communications, change management, funding and key governance questions relating to legal responsibilities and constitutional issues.
Community boards which are interested in ensuring their board members are adequately trained to take on the legal and ethical responsibilities of being on board would welcome board members who have completed this course.
The Diploma, costing $4,500 or $3,500 if you apply for a scholarship and are successful, takes 6-12 months to complete and includes 6 online tutorials and 12 units with assessments. The Diploma course is applied learning, meaning that you will learn theory and put it into practice regarding your own board, pressure testing this with your student cohort and trainers, with a textbook to keep and refer to when you are on your boards in the future.
The online, self-paced Certified Community Directors course enables you to learn theory at your own pace, it does not include tutorials, applied learning, access to trainers or a textbook. It encourages you to apply the theory through scenarios and case studies, and with your own board.
While both courses cover similar key concepts, content from the Certified Community Director course is applied in a different way, meaning we are unable to offer any credit.
A micro-credential certificate is awarded through our online learning management system to all who complete each of the seven units. You can share these certificates on your LinkedIn profile. Click here to learn how.
Upon completion of all seven units, learners are to be awarded a full Certified Community Director credential.
At the end of each of the seven units you will be prompted to submit your details for the Certified Community Director credential. Certificates are awarded in the final week of each month.
Aside from the additional resources provided with the course, the content cannot be downloaded. However, you can revisit the course's content as many times as you need, even after completing any unit. To do do, simply click here to log back into the e-learning platform.
Certified Community Director (Advanced) is a live, online program that allows you to put your governance skills into action through interactive board scenarios and discussions.
Taking place across four afternoon sessions, the course has been designed to allow you to apply everything learned in the self-paced course to real-life scenarios.
Complete the course and earn the Certified Community Director (Advanced) certification.