Programme summary

Career opportunities

Courses & timetables

Admission requirements

7, 120 1.0
Part-time for two to five years
Starts throughout the year
Number of places open
by 1 February
Waitakere campus | Hamilton | Wellington | Christchurch | Dunedin
NZ$5452 (Approximate fee only, find out more about the costs of study)

International fees

Applications are now open for Semester 2

Programme summary

Develop the knowledge and skills to increase your not-for-profit organisation's effectiveness. Improve your ability to analyse your organisational challenges, mobilise resources, develop strategies for raising funds, manage staff and volunteers, and build effective governance.

The Graduate Diploma in Not-For-Profit Management supports not-for-profit leaders and their organisations in achieving effective quality management and leadership. Find out how to increase your community organisation's effectiveness and your own core management competencies. Further your ability to mobilise resources, raise funds, get the best out of your board, staff and volunteers and strategically manage for sustainability.

Highlights

• Designed specifically for managers and co-ordinators, team leaders, volunteers and board members of not-for-profit organisations.
• Addresses the complexity of working in a not-for-profit organisation, and highlights the differences between managing in the not-for-profit sector and a business or government department.
• Takes into account your existing knowledge and experience.
• Assessments are directly based on the organisation you're working for.
• An emphasis on management issues that often are not dealt with in business schools, such as fundraising and managing volunteers.
• A supportive and co-operative adult learning environment.
• Lecturers who are active community leaders with experience in the not-for-profit sector.
• Inclusive of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
• Study as many or as few courses per year as your schedule allows.
• Scholarships for students through the generosity of The Tindall Foundation for the first year of study. Download the Scholarship Application Form (PDF).

 

Last edited: 06 March 2013