Program Overview

Cultural and Creative Leader Apprenticeship MBA

Overview

This course develops the apprentice's advanced personal, professional, critical thinking and reflective skills, preparing them to manage, lead and transform creative organisations and make a positive difference to society.

Course Details

Core Modules

• Competition and Collaboration
  • Expand your understanding of leadership by engaging with all aspects of organisational development and change management.
  • Develop your critical perspective on institutional practices by gaining detailed knowledge on vision, mission, culture and values, organisation structures and stakeholders, strategic workforce planning and development, and crisis and risk management strategies.
  • Learn how to lead on change management, shape competitive strategies, collaborate on defining your organisational vision and work with teams to deliver that vision.
• Conflict and Care
  • Develop a critical awareness of external environments that impact your work as a cultural and creative leader globally.
  • Recognise the most challenging social, political, ethical, and conceptual issues that affect your cultural field and determine how to lead ‘carefully’ in response to them.
  • Expand your key practices and theories and develop your advanced leadership skills by gaining knowledge of innovative and alternative methodologies for the sector.
  • Learn about the expertise in place for cultural and creative leaders including future design, systems thinking, knowledge/data management, research methodologies, and sustainable strategies and outcomes.
• Reflexivity and Resilience
  • Demonstrate and share your knowledge from your experience as a cultural and creative leader.
  • Learn advanced skills for personal development, presentation, and marketing.
  • Discover how to execute the development of a self-initiated business project for your organisation within the cultural and creative sector.

How You Learn

• This course is taught in three, one-week blocks and online seminars.
• The intensive blocks can be attended in Middlesbrough or London.
• Off-the-job training
  • This may include the following work-based activities: shadowing, researching, assisting tours, organising events, risk assessments, management of people, cataloguing, analysis, stakeholder engagement, fundraising, and managing a large research project.

How You Are Assessed

• Key assessment methods include the completion, presentation and submission of project work, including reports, presentations, project research, development work, finished presentations and visuals.
• The apprentice is assessed through reports, project research and development work, presentations and visuals.
• There are no formal exams.
• Degree assessment
  • Each 60-credit module is assessed through a portfolio submission.
  • The assessments focus on the analytical, professional, theoretical and practical elements of the apprentice's study.
  • They engage with tutors about their unique practice and progress towards their engagement plan.
• Gateway
  • On completion of the module portfolios, apprentices edit these into one larger evidence portfolio in preparation for the end-point assessment.
  • The portfolio should demonstrate the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviours gained throughout teaching to achieve the apprenticeship qualification.
• Gateway requirements
  • employer is satisfied the apprentice is consistently working at, or above, the level of the occupational standard
  • evidence portfolio.
• End-point assessment
  • The end-point assessment is delivered by an external organisation in line with the apprenticeship standard assessment plan.
  • It consists of two assessment methods:
    • professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio
    • exhibition project and written report

Entry Requirements

• To be accepted on to an apprenticeship course you must have support from your employer and meet the course entry requirements.
• The apprentice must:
  • have a minimum of two years’ experience in a relevant management role in the cultural and creative sector
  • at least a UK 2:2 honours degree (or an equivalent overseas professional qualification)
• Applicants may still be considered for entry if they do not meet these criteria but have significant management experience and/or a record of achievement in business and leadership.

Employability

Career Opportunities

• On completion of the course, the apprentice may progress on to senior cultural leadership positions in a variety of public, private and not-for-profit organisations.

Fees and Duration

• Part-time
  • Fee for UK applicants: £14,000
  • Length: 2 years +5 months EPA
  • Attendance: Blended
  • Start date: January, May or September

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