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Advanced Diploma of Forest Industry Sustainability - FWP60116
HS Business School
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
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This qualification describes the skills and knowledge required to manage or lead innovative thinking and practice, collaboration and change management, as the forest and wood products industry responds to the challenges of carbon reduction, climate change and energy efficiency.It caters for a range of employment pathways, which require skills in strategic planning, collaboration, systems thinking, project management and research and development. Senior managers will focus on guiding and implementing projects and initiatives in a changing environment. Organisational leaders will emphasise greater thinking, planning and communication within partnerships, building the capacity to align with industries that stand to gain economic, social and environment benefits from using wood in products or processes.A key focus of the qualification is the leadership and management of sustainable work and environmental practices and the sustainable use of resources. By building their capacity for innovative thinking, business leaders and managers will enable businesses to improve their competitiveness.Vocational outcomes are available to organisational leaders; senior and general managers; forest, environmental or sustainability managers and planners; forestry, plantation and technical services managers; technical, value recovery and community liaison officers and forest auditors; designers.Work involves the application of a significant range of theory, principles and complex techniques across a wide and often unpredictable variety of contexts involving both broad and highly technical job roles. Accountability and responsibility for self and others in achieving outcomes is involved.This qualification is typically used to develop and integrate a breadth, depth and complexity of skills and knowledge for leading or managing highly specialised and technical work.No licensing, legislative, regulatory, or certification requirements apply to units in this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Manage policy implementation
- Develop and implement strategic plans
- Manage community engagement
- Implement forestry chain of custody certification system
- Undertake carbon stock sampling of forests and plantations
- Analyse product life cycle for sustainability
- Implement workplace sustainability practices
- Develop and manage a forestry chain of custody certification process
- Initiate and lead a forest and wood products industry innovation
- Coordinate research and analysis
- Promote plantations as a sustainable form of land use
- Establish systems that support innovation
- Initiate a quality audit
- Lead and manage organisational change
- Manage sustainability in the workplace
- Plan a biochar storage system for carbon capture and storage
- Manage innovative thinking and practice in the forest and wood products industry
- Collect, analyse and present workplace data and information
- Manage budgets and financial plans
- Collaborate in a creative process
- Develop strategies for more sustainable use of resources
- Implement sustainable forestry practices
- Manage financial resources
- Prepare an enterprise carbon management report
- Manage and lead inspection and monitoring programs
- Develop innovative ideas at work
- Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
- Implement sustainability in the workplace
- Use ICT to improve sustainability outcomes
- Develop biohazard contingency plans
- Implement practices to maximise value from wood residues
- Build and maintain community relationships
- Implement effective communication strategies
- Manage sustainable tree inventory
- Develop engineered timber products to meet energy efficient building design needs
- Develop and manage sustainable environmental practices
- Develop forest management systems and processes
- Use carbon accounting to estimate emissions
- Manage tree harvesting to minimise environmental impact
- Manage forest and wood products industry research
- Lead forest and wood products industry innovative thinking and practice
- Build and sustain an innovative work environment
- Develop and cultivate collaborative partnerships and relationships
- Manage forestry information and interpretations programs
Standard entry requirements
There are no entry requirements
