About Danford College

This qualification reflects the role of individuals working as developing and emerging leaders and managers in a range of enterprise and industry contexts.

As well as assuming responsibility for their own performance, individuals at this level are likely to provide leadership, guidance and support to others. They may also have some responsibility for organising and monitoring the output of teams.

They apply solutions to a defined range of predictable and unpredictable problems, and analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources.

Successful completion of HLT57715 – Diploma of Practice Management graduates will receive a nationally accredited qualification to practice in a variety of health practice areas including medical, dental, chiropractic, podiatry, rehabilitation, community, mental health or aged care, veterinary practice and many mores.

This qualification provides you with the skills and knowledge to work as a business or practice manager in a small to medium sized health practice.

Learn to apply expert project management skills and knowledge across different industry sectors and contexts.

The Diploma of Project Management provides you with the skills and knowledge for project leadership and management roles, and for overseeing and achieving project objectives. Manage project scope, time, quality, and costs, risk, and all other elements of project delivery. Gain a sound theoretical knowledge of project management, and use a range of specialised technical and managerial skills to initiate, plan, execute and evaluate your own work and that of other staff.

Electives are available in procurement, stakeholder engagement, governance, and policies and procedures for sustainability.

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who apply specialised knowledge and skills, together with experience in leadership and management, across a range of enterprise and industry contexts.

Individuals at this level use initiative and judgement to plan and implement a range of leadership and management functions, with accountability for personal and team outcomes within broad parameters.

They use cognitive and communication skills to identify, analyse and synthesise information from a variety of sources and transfer their knowledge to others, and creative or conceptual skills to express ideas and perspectives or respond to complex problems.

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who apply highly specialised knowledge and skills in the field of organisational learning and capability development. Individuals in these roles generate and evaluate complex ideas. They also initiate, design and execute major learning and development functions within an organisation. Typically, they would have full responsibility and accountability for the personal output and work of others.

This qualification may apply to leaders and managers in an organisation where learning is used to build organisational capability. The job roles that relate to this qualification may also include RTO Manager and RTO Director.

This qualification is designed to reflect a range of the job roles with team and business result responsibilities in banking or other deposit taking institutions’ customer contact centres or retail and/or commercial financial services environments.

Individuals in these roles have autonomy in performing technical operations, apply solutions to a range of often complex problems, and research, analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources. They apply initiative to plan, coordinate and evaluate their own work and provide guidance to others.

This qualification is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge to apply for employment in roles in customer service and mid-level management in banking or other financial institutions, i.e. customer contact centers or retail financial services environments. At this level graduates are expected to apply specialist skills and knowledge in a range of situations to deal with complex situations and issues.

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who apply knowledge, practical skills and experience in leadership and management across a range of enterprise and industry contexts.

Individuals at this level display initiative and judgement in planning, organising, implementing and monitoring their own workload and the workload of others. They use communication skills to support individuals and teams to meet organisational or enterprise requirements.

The Advanced Diploma of Program Management helps you apply your specialised project knowledge and skills across a range of enterprise and industry contexts. With core units in program execution, stakeholder engagement, implementing governance, and managing benefits, this advanced Project Management qualification educates senior managers on the more advanced skills required to manage programs (such as sets of interrelated projects) and multiple projects to achieve organisational objectives.

This qualification reflects the role of senior managers with advanced operational skills who use a broad range of travel or tourism skills, combined with specialised managerial skills and substantial knowledge of industry operations, to coordinate travel or tourism operations. They operate with significant autonomy and are responsible for making strategic business management and operational decisions.

This qualification provides a pathway to work in many travel and tourism industry sectors and for a diverse range of employers including travel agencies, tour wholesalers, tour operators, inbound tour operators, tourist attractions, visitor information centres, and other tourism businesses.

Graduates will learn to perform tasks that are specialised, complex and technical and include strategic areas and initiating activities, in particular:

– Managing program risk

– Advising on the application of safe design principles to control WHS risk

– Leading and managing team effectiveness

– Managing the civil works design process

– Establishing and maintaining a quality system

This qualification is designed to meet the needs of builders or senior managers within the building and construction industry who apply knowledge of building, construction and sustainability systems and processes, structural principles, codes, standards and legal obligations to construction projects including high rise.

Create an integrated procurement environment in your organisation or department with the PSP80116 Graduate Certificate in Strategic Procurement. You will develop a specific body of knowledge and skills required for developing and executing strategic procurement strategies and projects, including cognitive, technical and communication skills that are critical in the increasingly complex procurement industry space, within the wider global supply chain context. This program effectively prepares for gainful entry into a rapidly growing procurement industry.

This qualification allows for the attainment of occupational specific competencies for those senior personel responsible for the integration of procurement into organisational policy and direction, and for the evaluation and improvement of procurement functions at an organisational level.

This qualification provides you with the skills and knowledge to be employed in conveyancing work, team leadership and/or the management of a practice. These individuals may be a Licensed Conveyancer or Settlement Agent.

Graduates may apply specialist skills and knowledge in a range of situations to deal with complex situations and issues. They work across a broad range of technical and management functions with accountability for personal outputs and may also be responsible for team outcomes.

This qualification provides you with the skills and competencies to be an interior designer. Additionally, graduates will learn how to develop creative and technical solutions for built interior environments. Interior designers will learn the planning and detailing of complex residential, commercial and institutional design projects with an emphasis on space creation, space planning and the factors that affect people’s responses to living and working environments.

Designers may be self-employed or employed in businesses as design consultants, design project administrators or design managers. Work involves the use of systematic and coordinated methodologies, including research, analysis and integration of knowledge into the creative process, and knowledge of the principles of interior design and building technologies. Contexts are diverse and often unpredictable. Accountability and responsibility for self and others in achieving outcomes is involved.

This qualification will build your skills and knowledge to be able to deliver service in a variety of Business Services job roles.

Once qualified graduates will be able to carry out a range of routine procedural, clerical, administrative or operational tasks that require technology and business skills. You will develop competencies to use sound judgment and relevant theoretical knowledge providing technical advice and support to a team.

This qualification provides you with the skills and knowledge to work in a variety of Business Services job roles including frontline management accountabilities.

Once qualified graduates will have the skills and knowledge to carry out moderately complex tasks in a specialist field of expertise that requires business operations skills.

This qualification provides you with technical, managerial, business and people management skills to work in a variety of information and communications technology (ICT) roles.

Graduates in these roles carry out complex tasks in a specialist field, working independently, leading a team or a strategic direction of a business. They apply their skills across a wide range of industries and business functions, or as a business owner (sole trader/contractor).

This qualification provides you with the skills and knowledge to work in a variety of information and communications technology (ICT) roles with established specialised skills in a technical ICT function.

Graduates in these roles carry out moderately complex tasks in a specialist field, working independently, as part of a team or leading a deliverable with others. They may apply their skills across a wide range of industries, business functions and departments, or as a business owner (sole trader/contractor).