Graduate Certificate in Social Impact draft

Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Social Impact equips professionals from various sectors with the skills and knowledge to create positive social change. Students learn about social impact measurement, social innovation, social finance, and social design. The program offers rewarding career opportunities in the social sector, public sector, not-for-profit sector, and social impact areas of consulting and business.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Graduate Certificate in Social Impact (GCSI) is designed to build the managerial capacity of professionals across the corporate, government, and not-for-profit sectors. It provides evidence-based learning to manage organizations, businesses, and social programs that effectively create positive social change. The program aims to help students become highly skilled and effective social change-makers in today's complex global landscape.

Objectives:

The GCSI aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to:

• Achieve social impact and create meaningful social value.
• Understand and apply social impact measurement, assessment, and evaluation.
• Develop expertise in social innovation, social finance, and impact investment.
• Gain knowledge of social business, social enterprise, and philanthropy.
• Understand social investment programs, social procurement, and social partnerships.
• CSI UWA delivers education that transforms, research that informs best practice, and public engagement that inspires and mobilises change makers.
• The Centre develops solutions that are rigorous and purpose-driven and works with people, communities, and organizations across Australia to grow their capabilities and drive positive change.
• The course is taught with a solid grounding in industry partnerships with major not-for-profit organizations, social finance and philanthropic representatives, specialist social impact measurement personnel, social design practitioners, corporate social responsibility personnel, social businesses and social enterprises, and human service government departments.

Careers:

• The Graduate Certificate in Social Impact provides a wide range of rewarding career opportunities including community services manager, community development planner, not-for-profit leader/CEO, business analyst in for-purpose sector, ethical investment professional, social entrepreneur, charity executive, social policy manager, public sector manager, philanthropy professional, and social Impact consultant.
• The course will give students a competitive edge in applying for management positions in the social sector, the public sector, the not-for-profit sector, and in the social impact areas of consulting and business.

Other:

• The course is offered in intensive study mode.
• The UWA Business School is accredited through both EQUIS, the European Quality Improvement System, and AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
• Students of the GCSI can progress into the MBA (Social Impact) as part of the MBA (Flexible).
The course draws on the GCSI courses for the social impact specialisation.