Team Leader/Supervisor Level 3 Apprenticeship

Facilitated by: Organisational Development/Staff Apprenticeship Scheme
Duration: 12-15 months
Cost: £4500 (funded by the University)

A team leader or supervisor is a first-line management role with operational and project management responsibilities, or responsibility for managing a team to deliver a clearly-defined outcome. Key responsibilities are likely to include supporting, managing and developing team members, managing projects, planning and monitoring workloads and resources, delivering operational plans, resolving problems, and building relationships internally and externally. View the Level 3 Team Leader/Supervisor Programme [PDF].

Team Leader/Supervisor Level 3 Apprenticeship

Facilitated by: Organisational Development/Staff Apprenticeship Scheme
Duration: 12-15 months
Cost: £4500 (funded by the University)

A team leader or supervisor is a first-line management role with operational and project management responsibilities, or responsibility for managing a team to deliver a clearly-defined outcome. Key responsibilities are likely to include supporting, managing and developing team members, managing projects, planning and monitoring workloads and resources, delivering operational plans, resolving problems, and building relationships internally and externally. View the Level 3 Team Leader/Supervisor Programme [PDF].

Higher Education Management and Leadership MSc

Facilitated by: AHEP and NTU
Duration: 24 months
Cost: from £3,900 (funded by your School/Division)

The MSc Higher Education Management and Leadership provides an accessible and stimulating learning environment to professional services staff in Higher Education to enhance their managerial and leadership capabilities within the sector. Read more about the Higher Education Management and Leadership MSC.

Spring Forward - For people on the way up

Facilitated by: Springboard (Institute for Leadership & Management approved)
Duration: three-day programme
Cost: TBC (funded by your School/Division)

Spring Forward is a career development programme for people who are approaching or newly appointed to a management role. The programme enables participants to learn how to lead a team, work on management confidence & gain insight into how gender, culture and managerial issues influence communication at work. The programme content includes:

• Presenting yourself positively as a leader
• Moving up within your organisation
• Honing your communication skills with your peers & team
• Implementing a healthy stress management strategy
• Building self-motivation and create a positive attitude
• Overcoming any barriers to success

Operational/Departmental Manager Level 5 Apprenticeship

Facilitated by: Organisational Development/Staff Apprenticeship Scheme
Duration: 30 months (not including end point assessment period)
Cost: £7000 (funded by the University)

An operational or departmental manager is someone who manages teams and/or projects, and has responsibility for achieving operational or departmental goals and objectives, as part of the delivery of the organisation's strategy. They are accountable to a more senior manager or business owner. Key responsibilities may include creating and delivering operational plans, managing projects, leading and managing teams, managing change, financial and resource management, talent management, coaching and mentoring.

Level 5 Operational/Departmental Manager Programme [PDF]

Leading Departments (Advance HE)

Facilitated by: Advance HE
Duration: in-person residential experience delivered over two, two-day/one night modules
Cost: £3495 (funded by your School/Division)

Leading Departments is a development programme designed to engage, support and develop new Heads of Department to meet the operational challenges of leading and managing academic or support teams. This innovative programme is designed for those who may have previous experience of managing team, but are still at an early stage in their role as head of department, service or school.

The programme is designed to be suitable for you whether you have an academic background and are leading a teaching, research or knowledge transfer department; or you have a professional service background and are leading an administrative or professional service - for example, student support services, information technology service, marketing, or campus services.

Aurora Leadership Programme for Women

Facilitated by: Advance HE
Duration: Introductory webinar, four development days and two action-learning set days
Cost: Early-bird member £925, Member £975, Early-bird non-member £1,230, Non-member £1300 (funded by your School/Division)

Aurora is Advance HE's leadership development initiative for women, up to Senior Lecturer level or the Professional Service equivalent, working in a university, college or related organisation. This programme is ideal for those who would like to develop and explore issues relating to leadership roles and responsibilities.

Chartered Manager Degree Level 6 Apprenticeship

Facilitated by: Staff Apprenticeship Scheme
Duration: 48 months 
Cost: £22,000 (funded by the University)

A Chartered Manager is someone who can take responsibility for people, projects, operations and/or services to deliver long term organisational success, with the professional recognition of their ability to deliver impact, behave ethically and demonstrate their commitment to continual learning and development. View the Chartered Manager (Degree) Level 6 Apprenticeship programme.

Aurora Leadership Programme for Women

Facilitated by: Advance HE
Duration: Introductory webinar, four development days and two action-learning set days

Cost: Early-bird member £925, Member £975, Early-bird non-member £1,230, Non-member £1300 (funded by your School/Division)

Aurora is Advance HE's leadership development initiative for women, up to Senior Lecturer level or the Professional Service equivalent, working in a university, college or related organisation. This programme is ideal for those who would like to develop and explore issues relating to leadership roles and responsibilities.

Preparing for Strategic Senior Leadership 

Facilitated by: Advance HE
Duration: four days/three nights
Cost: from £3895 (funded by your School/Division)

This programme has been designed for Heads of Departments, Schools, or academic subject centres; newly appointed Deans or those aspiring to the role; senior leaders up to and including Head or Director or their direct reports in professional services such as HR, Finance, Estates, Marketing, Library or Student Support.

Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership has been designed for operational managers who want to gain insight into the development of major strategic decisions in higher education institutions. The programme, which has been devised to be both challenging and empowering, emphasises innovation and creativity as a means to implement effective and sustainable change.

Strategic Leadership Programme

Facilitated by: Advance HE
Duration: two months
Cost: from £5250 (funded by your School/Divison)

The Strategic Leadership Programme will appeal to those with a portfolio which reaches across the institution and who want to exercise their strategic vision to make a meaningful impact in shaping the future direction of the higher education sector through influence and engagement.

Springboard Personal Development Programme

Facilitated by: Springboard (Institute for Leadership & Management approved)
Duration: 4 day programme
Cost: TBC (funded by your School/Division)

The Springboard Personal Development training programme is for women who want to take control, become more assertive, increase their confidence & build themselves a more positive attitude in both their work and home lives. Designed for women from all backgrounds, ages and stages of their lives, this training enables women to enhance their own skills and abilities, challenge power and equality, while building confidence, assertiveness and a positive image.

For employers, the Springboard programme can be used as part of a solution to address issues of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It also develops talent for the future, helping employers to build pipelines of diverse talent and address issues of the Gender Pay Gap.

Navigator

Facilitated by: Springboard (Institute for Leadership & Management approved)
Duration: 4 day programme, plus peer-coaching
Cost: TBC (funded by your School/Division)

The Navigator programme is for men who want to examine both their home and work life in order to identify practical and realistic steps to fulfil their potential. It offers participants  the time and space to address challenges of modern living, stereotypes of masculinity, the challenges facing the 21st century man, as well as mental health, well-being and stress management. The programme supports men to understand the world they are now living in and then challenges their expectations based on historical male stereotypes. This powerful and pioneering development course has been successfully used by over 9,000 men across many different industries.

The programme agenda includes setting goal strategies that work, benefitting from experienced and knowledgeable coaching and support, as well as encouraging attendeed to take risks and manage change.

Authentic Leader

Facilitated by: Springboard (Institute for Leadership & Management approved)
Duration: three-day programme
Cost: TBC (funded by your School/Division)

The Authentic Leader Development Programme will help leaders to better understand their personal and career aspirations and show them how these can be combined to unlock peak performance. Participants will also learn to understand what drives their behaviours, their preferred communication styles, and the professional impact that these factors can have. With Behavioural Preference Profiling C-Me, your management team can develop an understanding of their own unique leadership style.

Research Team Leadership in Changing Times

Facilitated by: Advance HE
Duration: two-day programme
Cost: from £1100 (funded by your School/Division)

Effective leadership is critical to the success of any team. For those new to a research team leadership role, developing the necessary practical skills combined with the requirements of meeting research delivery objectives can be particularly challenging. Research Team Leadership in Changing Times is a two-day online course designed to develop your skills as a research team leader with particular reference to supporting research leaders and their teams in these changing times. 

Vitae

Vitae run a number of workshops for researchers. Training delivered for senior researchers over the last few years has included: setting the research agenda, strategic project management, engaging with policy makers, generating impact via engagement, research leadership, building and managing a research team, intellectual property and commercialisation, a mentoring approach to supervision, developing the next generation of leaders etc. Contact Vitae for training details.

Senior Leader Level 7 Apprenticeship

Facilitated by: Organisational Development/Staff Apprenticeship Scheme
Duration: 24 months (part time)
Cost: £14,000 (funded by the University)

Senior Leaders are a key component of all types of business model where there is a workforce to lead, manage and support. The broad purpose of the occupation is to provide clear, inclusive and strategic leadership and direction relating to their area of responsibility within an organisation. Typically, this involves setting, managing and monitoring achievement of core objectives that are aligned to the overall strategic objectives of their organisation.

Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship Programme [PDF]

Senior Women's Leadership Development Programme

Facilitated by: Advance HE
Duration: six development days over three months
Cost: £2750 (funded by your School/Division)

Advance HE’s Senior Women’s Leadership Development Programme is one of the women-only programmes designed specifically for women in senior positions in HE to help them take the next step up or extend their role, profile and impact. It aims at creating more gender parity in senior leadership within higher education. In the programme, they create a safe space for senior women leaders to explore the complexity of navigating through conventional organisational structures and to build foundations for transformation and paradigm shift.

The programme strikes a balance between enhancing technical knowledge of key strategic areas of operation (including institutional finance, structures and governance) and exploring individual leadership styles, leadership legacy, personal impact and developing political skills.