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Project Management for Wildlife Conservation at WildTeam
Why do this course? Career starters: Improve your chances of getting your dream conservation job by getting a qualification in a required skill for many conservation positions. Practitioners: Learn how to manage conservation projects more efficiently and in a way that achieves maximum impact. What will I learn? This training course has been developed with input from experienced practitioners to help conservationists manage conservation projects of any type or size. You will learn how to: Apply a set of practical and ethical principles to guide your project; Assign roles to clarify team structure and decision-making, and improve internal communication and coordination; Split projects into clear phases, from planning through to reporting project outcomes; Use control processes to monitor the progress of your work and adapt to new information and changing conditions; Establish administrative processes to help conduct effective internal meetings and develop high-quality project documents; Standardise reporting to record, evaluate and share the impact of your work, both internally and externally. What will my learning experience be like? In this online training course, we do our best to recreate the best of the interactive and supportive classroom environment, while offering you the flexibility to learn when and where you want. You will be supported throughout by our expert trainers via Zoom and WildHub. The course is run over 6 weeks, with an average of 3.5 hours learning per week. The training combines weekly live teaching sessions and pre-recorded training videos to work from in your own time. Who is providing this training? WildTeam UK is a not-for-profit charity that designs and delivers training in key skills that help conservationists increase their impact. To date, we have trained nearly 1,500 conservationists from 91 countries.
Monitoring and Evaluation for Wildlife Conservation at WildTeam
Why do this course? Career starters: Improve your chances of getting your dream conservation job by getting a qualification in a required skill for many conservation positions.
Practitioners: Learn how to plan, report on and learn from the impact your work achieves. When is it? 21st March - 25th April 2023. What will I learn? You will learn how to plan and report on monitoring and evaluation activities for any type of conservation project. The course covers how to: Define project success in terms of results, objectives and tolerance limits; Set indicators to track progress and assess project success; Plan monitoring activities to track changes in the situation; Plan evaluation activities to assess how impact was achieved and how much impact was due to the project; Report impact using diagrams and charts. What will my learning experience be like? All our courses are designed using modern adult learning practices that build reflection, relevancy and practice to in all training materials and exercises. At the start of each training week, you will be sent an instructional video that you can watch at your own pace and at a time that suits you best. At the end of each training week there will be a live, expert-led, online group session. This session will enable you to work together with your instructor and fellow trainees to really test out and build your confidence in the approach. The course is run over 5 weeks, with live group sessions every Tuesday starting on 28th March. There are two live session times available each week (10.30am or 5.30pm GMT) to fit with your schedule. The total learning time per week will be 3 to 3.5 hours. Who is providing this training? WildTeam UK is a not-for-profit charity that designs and delivers training in key skills that help conservationists to increase their impact. So far we have trained nearly 1,500 conservationists from 91 countries.
Stakeholder Engagement for Wildlife Conservation at WildTeam
Why do this course? Career starters: Improve your chances of getting your dream conservation job by getting a qualification in a required skill for many conservation positions. Practitioners: Learn effective and ethical stakeholder engagement processes that will help you to strengthen your conservation strategy, access resources such as funds and skilled staff, and acquire consent for, and/or active participation in the conservation work. What will I learn? This training course has been developed with input from experienced practitioners to help conservationists engage effectively with the right stakeholders for any type of conservation project. You will learn how to: Apply key principles to ensure you engage with stakeholders effectively and ethically; Select stakeholders that are right for your project; Initiate the relationship to build trust and understanding; Formalise the relationship to set expectations; Manage the relationship to progress the project and adapt to changing conditions. What will my learning experience be like? In this online training course, we do our best to recreate the best of the interactive classroom environment, while offering you the flexibility to learn when and where you want. You will be supported throughout by our expert trainers via Zoom and WildHub. The course is run over 5 weeks, with an average of 3.5 hours learning per week. The training combines weekly live teaching sessions and pre-recorded training videos to work from in your own time. When does the course start? The next online training course in Stakeholder Engagement for Wildlife Conservation begins on the 9 May 2023. Who is providing this training? WildTeam UK is a not-for-profit charity that designs and delivers training in key skills that help conservationists increase their impact. To date, we have trained nearly 1,500 conservationists from 91 countries.