Post Graduate Diploma in Humanitarian Leadership and Management

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Global Institute is pleased to announce a Post Graduate Diploma in Humanitarian Leadership and Management and Distance Learning Course, which starts on the 1st of every month.

Overall Course Overview:

Humanitarian personnel experience tremendous challenges when managing teams to deliver humanitarian actions. To effectively manage humanitarian teams and realize the expected results especially in crisis or pressured situations, leadership and management skills become critical. This course is designed and moderated by professional humanitarians with the objective of transforming the leadership offered by humanitarian organizations. 

Humanitarian Leadership examines the values, principles methodologies and challenges that underscore humanitarian operations. The course goes beyond theory. Using real-life examples, the course is designed to empower national and international managers within the aid system so they can acquire skills to manage their teams and positively impact on communities and organizations involved in humanitarian operations.

• Promote humanitarian standards and principles in managing crisis situations
• Develop capacity to work with humanitarian teams effectively
• Acquire values expected of those working in humanitarian situations
• Acquire tools for designing and effectively managing humanitarian programmes
• Focus on results based approach in managing humanitarian operations
• Communicate effectively in humanitarian and hostile environments

Assignments
There are nine assignments (continuous assessment tests), research paper and one examination to be offered at the end of the course. Assignments account for 60%, research paper accounts for 30% while Examination accounts for 10% of the marks. Upon completion of the course you shall be issued with a Diploma Certificate and a course transcript.

Examination
Certificate and Transcripts will be sent after successful completion of the course.

DURATION AND COURSE LOAD: 52 Weeks – 5 to 6 hours per week
DATES: (12 Months) Course Starts 1st of Every Month.
PARTICIPANTS: Development Professionals
REGIONS TARGETED: Global
ORGANIZERS: The Global Institute
LANGUAGE: English only
COST: $1200
FORMAT: Web-based and Distance Learning facilitated
GENERAL COURSE CONTACT: info@globalhumanitarianinstitute.org