Build a career with a positive impact, focusing on international humanitarian and development aid, with the Graduate Certificate in International Community Development.

This practical postgraduate program offers you a personalised education, including workplace training, for a career in community development in the local and international arena.

Key study areas include:

• community development theories and practices
• project design
• planning and management
• advocacy of gender rights and human right
• conflict resolution in groups and communities.

When assessing your application, we consider your education, work experience, current skills and personal attributes (where relevant).

Applicants for this course will need to meet the entry criteria outlined below. If you don’t meet the entry criteria, you may be able to gain entry by first completing a different course. We call this a ‘pathway’.

For PhD applicants, we offer a related ‘Integrated PhD’ which allows you to establish relevant skills before beginning your research.

You may also be eligible for course ‘credits’, where you are granted a unit or units towards your qualification for equivalent previous study or work experience, so you can graduate sooner.

Entry Criteria

To be considered for postgraduate study, you will need to have specific academic qualifications, as outlined below. We also consider non-academic research and work experience for our research candidates.

Admission criteria

Completion of an Australian Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in any discipline OR Applicants with a minimum five (5) years approved work experience will be considered for admission to this course.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Interpret community development theoretical concepts and related knowledge to think critically on appropriate approaches to address sociocultural problems in contemporary societies;
2. Utilise critical analytical skills to interrogate and interpret different schools of thought on globalisation and development and their impacts on communities, including through critical engagement with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
3. Deconstruct the role of civil society and grassroots social movements in relation to international community development;
4. Critique global and regional political structures, and their impact upon community development;
5. Creatively employ advanced skills in research and project management in international community development contexts.

Graduates of this course can work in a diverse range of fields including international humanitarian and development aid.

Typical roles might include:

• international consultant (within human rights, gender, poverty reduction or project evaluation)
• international project manager (e.g. Australian Red Cross and World Vision)
• government employee (e.g. local or federal government)
• community development educator
• international project manager
• journalist
• researcher.