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IEMA Environmental Sustainability Skills for Managers

This course isn’t currently open for applications, but you can still register your interest.

  • Qualifications Other Programmes
  • SCQF Level SCQF Level 5
  • Study mode Professional Learning
  • Campus Ayr
  • Start date August 2025
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Attendance / Duration

2 Days (9:00am - 4:00pm)

Overview

This 2 day course is intended to support managers and supervisors from any industry/business sector in understanding the strategic and operational implications environmental sustainability has on them, their team and department.

Cost

£500 (Payment Plan Options Available)

Book / Enquiry

For further information or to be added to our waiting list for future course dates please email engage@ayrshire.ac.uk

What's Involved?

This two-day course is intended to support managers and supervisors from any industry/business sector in understanding the strategic and operational implications environmental sustainability has on them, their team and department. It enables you to contribute to the improved environmental sustainability of their organisation and is ideal to rapidly upskill your team and those who oversee operational objectives.

Course Content

  • Understanding of the strategic opportunities and constraints that environmental sustainability presents organisations
  • The importance of resource efficiency
  • The impact of environmental sustainability across the value chain
  • The impacts of pollution, prevention, control and environmental legislation in organisations
  • How employees support environmental sustainability.

By the end of the course, you will:

  • have knowledge and understanding of the main environmental and economic risks and opportunities,
  • have knowledge and understanding of compliance obligations and business drivers for change,
  • have knowledge and understanding of the main potential impacts on environment and sustainability,
  • have knowledge and understanding of how to improve environmental performance,
  • evaluate drivers for change and barriers,
  • apply knowledge and understanding to baselines data to monitor and improve performance,
  • apply knowledge of environmental sustainability across the value chain,
  • demonstrate the importance of implementing resource efficiency,
  • will demonstrate how employees can improve environmental performance,

IEMA Assessment

The assessment consists of an online 20 question multiple-choice test and learners must achieve 70% to pass. The test is completed through the IEMA assessment portal and candidates are sent a link upon registration to the assessment.