Program Overview

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Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship

Why study this course

Achieve a BA (Hons) in Business Leadership and Management whilst developing your current management career

Achieve a CMI Level 6 Diploma in Leadership and Management and upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, have the opportunity to apply for CMI Chartered Manager status

An Apprenticeship is fully funded through the apprenticeship levy or 95% funded for small businesses

All modules relevant to your organisation and network with other like-minded professionals

Course overview

Are you a leader or manager and would like to develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours within the role?

Through this Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship course, you will work towards being a Chartered Manager - someone who can take responsibility for people, projects, operations and/or services to deliver long-term organisational success, with the professional recognition of your ability to deliver impact, behave ethically and demonstrate your commitment to continual learning and development.

Within the apprenticeship, you will develop a range of knowledge, skills and behaviours, including operational strategy, project management, digital business and new technologies, managing people, developing collaborative relationships, decision-making, agility and professionalism.

Key facts

• Duration: Up to 4 years
• Mode of study: Full-time
• Start date: September
• Awarding institution: Bishop Grosseteste University

About this apprenticeship

The apprenticeship will typically take three and a half years to complete (including the End-Point Assessment) although each student will be different dependant on previous experience.

The apprenticeship will be delivered against the nationally recognised Level 6 Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship Standard and on successful completion of the programme and EPA activities participants will gain the BA (Hons) and will have the option to gain professional body recognition alongside the apprenticeship.

The Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship will allow you to:

• Develop your Operational Strategy, Sales & Marketing, Project Management and other leadership and management capabilities
• Study with peers from other industries
• Develop a range of skills, knowledge and behaviours which you can immediately apply to your role
• Achieve a degree level whilst developing your current management career
• Option to fast-track into the final year, if you have completed the Operations Manager Level 5 Apprenticeship.

What you will study

• Course modules
• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Introduction to Business, Leadership and Management

This module will introduce and explore the environments in which organisations operate, and will equip you with the ability to understand and analyse the inter-relatedness of organisations and the environment. An understanding of the internal and external environments of an organisation will be developed, and you will explore the role of leadership and management within these given contexts.

Understanding Project and Financial management

During this module, you will explore the key concepts and principles of project management and develop a working knowledge of how a project moves through planning, design, development, deployment and evaluation. You will demonstrate your ability to use widely recognised project management tools within your practical assessment for this module.

Data Analysis for Business Decision Making

This module equips you with an applied understanding of business decision making. You will be introduced to the concept of research and environmental scanning and will gain an appreciation of research practice and the role and significance of research activity for decision making purposes.

Innovation and Digital Technologies

This module enables students to explore the concept, importance, and use of innovation and digital technology in organisations. It explores the challenges surrounding innovation allowing students to investigate the wider environmental issues surrounding this subject. Analysing ways in which organisations can be innovative in products/services, markets, processes and organisational structure in order to be competitive will be a key feature of this module.

Global Business Environment

This module will support your understanding of how the environment, and changes within the environment, impact on the purpose of an organisation.

Leading & Managing Complexities

This module focuses on consolidating your knowledge and understanding of leadership and the challenges of managing people in an ever complex, agile and rapidly changing work environment.

Marketing Principles and Practice

This module provides the opportunity to explore the key principles and concepts of marketing. Throughout the module you will explore the the nature of the marketing environment and its relevance for organisations and their associated marketing practice.

Customers, Data and Competitor Analysis

This module is designed to introduce you to the importance of customer insight and data analysis to determine and drive customer service outcomes and improve customer relationships. Within the module you will learn how to employ a wide spectrum of techniques to analyse business and competitive data and information including environmental analysis, industry analysis, competitor analysis.

An Introduction to Strategy

This module aims to provide an introduction to Strategy in the context of how organisations seek to effectively deploy resources to deliver value for stakeholders.

Managing Operations in the 21st Century

In this module, you will be introduced to core concepts in the design and management of operations and supply chains in the context of your own organisation or an organisation you are familiar with. It will explore the links between operations and strategy focusing on delivery against KPIs. It will also examine resource planning, quality management and continuous improvement.

Building and Developing Collaborative Relationships

In this module, you will explore the importance of building and developing collaborative relationships. You will be supported in building internal and external networks, and motivating stakeholders whilst committing to diversity and inclusion. You will develop an appreciation of approaches to developing engagement and managerial networks, and facilitating cross functional working and negotiation, and asked to assess your own competencies in these areas.

Management in Practice 1 - (Work-based learning)

This module provides a opportunity to develop your understanding and application of reflective practice. You will learn the baseline skills you require to demonstrate your professional competency against the knowledge, skills and behaviour criteria specified in the Apprenticeship standard via a portfolio of evidence.

Strategic Management

This module focuses on “strategic choice” and translating strategy into action.

Managing Financial Principles and Techniques

This module adopts an experiential and practice-based learning approach to support help you build your understanding of the role that finance and accounting plays in organisational strategy.

Leading and Managing Change

This module will help you develop a critical understanding of approaches for leading, managing and implementing change.

Strategic Human Resources Management

This module explores the strategic management of human resources focusing on recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, talent and diversity management and workforce planning.

Organisational Behaviour and Responsible Leadership

This module will introduce the psychology and sociology of organisations, and the important organisational structures and cultures needed to build resilient and sustainable organisations.

Management in Practice 2 (Work-based learning)

This is the compulsory work-based learning module for students continuing their study from L5 on the Apprenticeship pathway.

The Synoptic Work-based Project

This module articulates the requirement of the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship standard for students to identify and design a change intervention in the workplace that can make a difference to the organisation.

Entry requirements

There are no formal entry requirements for this apprenticeship although an initial assessment will take place to ensure the apprenticeship is the most appropriate training programme for the individual and employer. Candidates will need to be resident in the UK and in employment (with at least 50% of the working hours in England). Individual employers will set the selection criteria for their Apprenticeship and employment role.

As a guide, candidates might have A Levels (or equivalent) or existing relevant level 3 qualifications. Other relevant qualifications or prior experience may also be considered as an alternative alongside consideration of the suitability of the role being undertaken and the opportunities to develop and apply the required knowledge, skills and behaviours.

Typically, candidates will also have achieved qualifications in English and mathematics at a minimum of level 2 or equivalent (GCSE grade A*/9- C/4), and also demonstrate Information Communication Technology (ICT) skills at this level. Where approved English and Maths qualifications are not held, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) funds apprentices to achieve qualifications in English and/or Maths to level 2 if they do not already meet the minimum requirements. These can be delivered through our designated Apprenticeship Support Officers alongside the apprenticeship and will need to be achieved prior to entering Gateway.

There are no upper age restrictions, although all apprentices must be aged over 18 as a minimum.

Applications for this programme can only be made through the sponsoring employer.

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Fees & Funding

Costs may be covered by government funding and/or your employer – employers who pay the Apprenticeship Levy will pay fees directly through the levy contribution.

Alternatively, businesses who do not pay the Levy may be able to claim 95% of the cost of tuition fees from the Government.

See further information on Apprenticeship Funding.

Academic staff

• Rachel Linstead

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