Key features
- Accredited and Registered
- Cutting-edge curriculum
- Flexible structure
- Online support
- Affordable and Accessible
- Internationally benchmarked
- Multicultural Faculty and support
About
The Postgraduate Diploma in Risk Management facilitates a streamlined approach needed by organisations to combat the broad negative effects of risks that are unforeseen while strengthening and deepening knowledge in an existing qualification. This will allow graduates to be able to anticipate problems, develop risk identification and control programs aimed at minimising risk resulting in a comprehensive and valid report through developing and analysing a model to implement quantitative risk management methodologies.
Outcomes
- Understand the evolution and importance of establishing a risk management culture;
- Display an understanding of the risk management framework and risk specific modelling as a means of assessing risk so as to promote and grow the organisation;
- Employ integrated knowledge to solve complex risk management problems in an organisation and pose viable solutions;
- Identify and mitigate risk relating to an individual project or organisation as a whole;
- Understand the role of management and leadership in organisational success;
- Demonstrate an understanding of varying risks within the different corporate levels of an organisation
- Engage in self-directed learning;
- Possess the ability to identify and manage the various types of fraud that is prevalent within an organisational context;
- Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of ethics, compliance and accountability and
- Apply the concepts of risk mapping and risk modelling to process information for decision making.
Programme structure
Duration: 1 year
Semester 1
- Introduction to Risk Management
- Risk Management Framework and Measuring
- Risk Modelling
- Corporate Governance, Ethics and Risk
Semester 2
- Strategic Management
- Auditing for Risk
- Corporate Risk Management
- Project Communication and Risk Management
Admission requirements
The minimum entry requirement is an appropriate Bachelor’s Degree or appropriate Advanced Diploma.
Application
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