MA in Management for Community & Voluntary Services
If you are working in the community & voluntary sector
~ If you want to take more responsibility in your own organisation
~ If you are looking for a move to a more challenging position in another agency
~ If you care about people enough to do something for them
~ If you see peoples’ need for education, support, welfare
~ If you are excited about culture, health, youth, art, music, sport
~ If you know that you have much to give to community, to society, to the public
Then you will want to learn about efficient and effective management of non-profit organisations.
We want to help you learn the theory and skills of management, leadership, human resources, policy design, financial administration, strategic planning, marketing, funding and decision-making in non-profit groups.
What are my career prospects if I complete this course?
A Masters Degree can open doors, open windows, or open eyes.
It can open doors, by making available to you a path to promotion, more challenging projects, and more responsible positions.
It can open windows, by letting you see possibilities and opportunities that you never thought existed.
It can open eyes, by bringing you to realize the potential that you already possess and give you the confidence and energy to put it into action.
What do we learn in this course?
The Learning Units are as follows:
- Introduction to Non Profit Management
- Social Justice: a Context for Management
- Leadership for Non Profit Organisations
- Marketing for Non Profit Organisations
- Fund-Raising for Non Profit Organisations
- Human Resource Management for Non Profit Organisations
- Spirituality in the Workplace
- Law & Voluntary Organisations
- Strategic Planning & Managing Change for Non Profit Organisations
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Policy Design & Analysis
- Project Management
- Research Methods
- Research Seminars
- Research Project
Each unit is a module in length, that is, twenty four hours of class time and approximately fifty hours of student study. There are five shorter units on practical topics necessary for contemporary management:
Basic Accounting for Non Profit Organisations (half module)
Communications for Non Profit Organisations (half module)
Public Relations and Advocacy for Non Profit Organizations (half module)
Information Technology for Non Profit Organisations (half module)
Financial Management for Non Profit Organisations (half module)
How do we learn in this course?
We relate the theory and practice of voluntary and community management to your own organisations, or an organisation with which you are sufficiently familiar. You can reflect on your own experience as a manager or employee or volunteer in the community and voluntary sector, set it alongside theory or best practice as you learn it, and plan for change, both in your place of work and in your own career.
Our approach is inter-disciplinary and interactive, using an adult model of learning. Lectures are an important element but you will be involved, as well, in case studies, group presentation, multi-media, research and in significant reflection on these experiences. You will prepare an individual research project or dissertation is presented for August of your final year.
you are working in the community & voluntary sector
~ If you want to take more responsibility in your own organisation
~ If you are looking for a move to a more challenging position in another agency
~ If you care about people enough to do something for them
~ If you see peoples’ need for education, support, welfare
~ If you are excited about culture, health, youth, art, music, sport
~ If you know that you have much to give to community, to society, to the public
Then you will want to learn about efficient and effective management of non-profit organisations.
We want to help you learn the theory and skills of management, leadership, human resources, policy design, financial administration, strategic planning, marketing, funding and decision-making in non-profit groups.
