Social & Health Sciences

Graduate Diploma in Not-For-Profit Management

Programme summary  Career opportunities  Courses & timetables  Admission requirements

[GDipNFP]

7, 120 1.0
Part-time for two to five years
Starts throughout the year
Number of places open

by 1 February
CA2184
Waitakere campus | Hamilton | Wellington | Christchurch | Dunedin
 NZ$ 5230

International fees

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 is designed for managers and co-ordinators, team leaders, volunteers and Board members of not-for-profit (NFP) organisations. It supports NFP 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. The programme will help you further your ability to mobilise resources, raise funds and manage for financial sustainability.

Highlights

  • A professional qualification that directly addresses the complexity of working in an NFP organisation, and highlights the differences between managing in the NFP sector and a business or government department.
  • Takes into account your existing knowledge and experience. All assignment work will relate to the organisation you are working with.
  • Relevance to your career: assessments are in the form of project work to help you improve your management competencies and your organisation’s performance.
  • An emphasis on management issues that are not usually dealt with in business schools, such as fundraising and managing volunteers.
  • A supportive and co-operative adult learning environment.
  • Active community leaders with plenty of experience in the NFP sector as your lecturers.
  • Focus on the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
  • Flexibility: study as many or as few courses per year as your schedule allows.
  • Scholarships for students through the generosity of The Tindall Foundation. Please refer to our website www.community.unitec.ac.nz for further details.