Course Description

The practice of project management is becoming critical to the success of many development, government, and nonprofit organizations (NGOs). With reduced budgets and increased demands from donors and other stakeholders, organizations need to incorporate the tools and practices of modern project management in order to achieve the expected results. This one-of-a-kind training workshop will be useful to non-profit organizations that wish to deliver projects and making the best of donor funds. This program will provide participants with high-quality, immediately applicable, project management skills specifically for non-profits. The course integrates a wide range of skills for nonprofit management from basic strategic actions commonly used in nonprofit organizations to practical tools, processes, and frameworks used to address crises and changing scenarios in complex organizations. The course draws from real-world case studies from numerous organizations in order to provide a practical integration of managerial tools with organizational strategy and sound governance.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

•     Navigate a sector with increased professionalization.

•     Apply strategic leadership skills to a non-profit context of their choice.

•     Apply greater financial accountability and control with basic accounting concepts and fundraising know-how in unique context.

•     Apply the framework of human resource and project management to non-profit personnel.

•     Measure the results of non-profit organization/projects.

•     Generate and disseminate impact stories.

•     Foster and support a culture of fundraising in non-profit organization.

•     Design strategic approaches to recruiting volunteers and building boards.

Who should enroll?

The course is useful non-profit personnel including staff, volunteers and board members. It is also useful to consultants who work closely with non-profit organizations and projects.

Why train with us

Vital Extra Learning guarantees our clients:

•     State-of-the-art facilities and training infrastructure

•     Extended tradition of hand-holding during post engagement

•     Service delivery through highly seasoned industry experts.

•     Value for money

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Module 1: Introduction to Programme Management

•     Distinguishing between a project and a program

•     Defining programs, projects, and portfolios

•     Roles of the project and program managers

•     Program roadmap and management plan

•     Setting up a Program Management Office (PMO)

Module 2: Aligning Programs and Organizational Strategy

•     How to develop the vision, goals, objectives, and assess the maturity of an organizational strategy

•     Defining business, data, application, and technology architectures

•     Business environment analysis

•     Evaluation of organizations competencies and capabilities

•     Resource-based approaches to strategy 

•     Describe the organizational portfolio

•     Assessing the “as-is” and future “to-be” states

•     Specify required changes to existing systems and processes

•     Establish required new systems and retirement of systems

•     How to avoid the “Shelfware” syndrome

Module 3: The Program Business Case

•     How to create and structure a defendable program business case

•     Determining costs and benefits of a business case

•     Identifying and analyzing risks and opportunities

•     Establishing program components

•     Selecting major milestones

•     Developing the roadmap

•     Estimating the program costs

•     Developing subsidiary plans

•     Determining resources

•     Generating an acquisition strategy

•     Developing a program transition plan

•     Identifying and delivering program benefits

•     Planning benefit realization

•     Reviewing and optimizing benefits realization

•     Transitioning and sustaining benefits

Module 4: Program Governance and Stakeholder Engagement

•     Establishing the proper governance structure

•     Distinguishing between program, portfolio, and organizational governance

•     Defining the decision-making authority

•     Identifying and creating program stakeholder profiles

•     Generating a stakeholders register

•     Establishing the program management team

Module 5: Program Monitoring and Leadership

•     Designing the program dashboard to assess program health

•     Establishing dashboard utilization and updates

•     Identifying the necessary metrics and select their sources

•     Identifying, classifying and assessing program risks, opportunities, probabilities, and impacts

•     Identifying and resolving program issues

•     Setting the vision

•     Protecting the program team

•     Dealing with adversity

•     Understanding and working with stakeholder expectations

•     Establishing and following the processes

•     Selecting the right people for the right roles

•     Negotiating resources

•     Communicating effectively with staff at all levels

•     Driving proper communications between project teams

•     Ensuring proper communications with all stakeholders