Course description
Apprentices enrolled in the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability program are trained to serve as the moral compass of your organisation, driving innovation and pursuing goals for positive social and environmental transformation. The curriculum of the course is designed in accordance with the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Competency Framework, and apprentices are granted complimentary membership to the ICRS throughout the duration of their apprenticeship. This membership provides access to various benefits, including events, resources, and an online community of aspiring professionals in the field of CR&S.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who is this course suitable for?
The general purpose of the CSR / CR&S support occupation is to be a social conscience for the organisation, to help innovate and drive ambitions for social and environmental change and to make these a reality embedded and implemented across the organisation.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Knowledge
- K1: Principles of project management and a range of project planning tools.
- K2: Principles of change management and culture management.
- K3: Potential CR&S data sources including organisational, sectoral and stakeholder.
- K4: The types of metrics and insight evidence that help inform CR&S issues.
- K5: How the positioning of the CR&S function within organisational and governance structures can impact CR&S performance.
- K6: Techniques to identify/evaluate the internal and external range of potential CR&S partners.
- K7: Techniques for managing and influencing stakeholder relationships.
- K8: Principles of negotiating a CR&S project with an internal and/or external partner.
- K9: Different forms of communication (written, verbal, electronic) and how to tailor the solution to the circumstances.
- K10: Techniques for reporting on CR&S delivery against objectives.
Skills
- S1: Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- S2: Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- S3: Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- S4: Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- S5: Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- S6: Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- S7: Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- S8: Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- S9: Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- S10: Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
Training Course Content
These are the personal attributes and behaviours expected of all CR&S Practitioners carrying out their roles
- Actively champion the CR&S agenda/ethos.
- Committed to developing self and others in ways that support CR&S engagement
- Works within own level of authority, seeking support when needed.
- Takes the lead in helping others to achieve CR&S results. (within limits of own role).
- Seeks innovative ways to add value to CR&S issues while remaining objective
- Stand by difficult CR&S decisions and hold your team/organisation to account.
- Ethical and non-judgmental
Continuing Studies
Roles & Responsibilities may include:
- Community investment coordinator,
- Corporate citizenship administrator,
- Corporate responsibility (cr) administrator,
- Marketing and Communications Officer,
- Communications Executive & Communications Specialist,
- Philanthropy Coordinator,
- Social impact administrator,
- Sustainability Coordinator, &
- Environmental Social Governance (ESG) administrator.
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