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Saudi British Fellowship in Youth Work Leadership
Following the success and incredibly positive feedback on the Saudi British Fellowship Program (SBFP) , Leaders Development (LD) and Amanda Collins Consulting (ACC) were approached by The Council of Youth Charities (KSA); a specialised council for youth charities, one of the subsidiary councils derived from the Founding Council of Civil Charities KSA) to develop a similar professional development program focusing on theoretical aspects and practical projects, tasks and experiences that equip participants with methodologies, approaches, standards and tools specific to leading youth work NFP organisations.
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Once again ACC decided to explore this opportunity with Alliance Manchester Business School and together we have designed a program focused on three main principles; For Youth, By Youth, With Youth.
Leadership is critical to Vision 2030 aims. For young people, vision 2030 represents their ambitions. It has recently been said that:
“Saudi Arabia has been working on encouraging the sons and daughters of the Kingdom to shape their future by advancing their skills and training them to become better leaders in their professions, whether in science and technology or in the creative fields”
One of the Kingdom’s commitments is to nurture a dynamic culture, which is one of the three pillars of Vision 2030. Initiatives to achieve this are all geared toward unlocking the potential of Saudi youth. Their future is in the hands of leaders of youth work charities, from Board members to program managers. Competencies, the underlying attitudes, behaviours and skill sets, tools and techniques will equip youth leaders to improve their organisations’ capabilities and capacity to achieve these aims by setting goals and supporting and empowering their teams and the charities’ stakeholders.
The Fellowship program will balance competencies commonly associated with general leadership roles and those specific to youth work charities.
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Extract from Program Framework Document
Program Overview
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Overall aim of the program​
The program aims to work in partnership across our respective specialisms in leadership and youth work, focusing on theoretical aspects and practical projects, with activities that equip participants with methodologies, approaches, standards and tools specific to leading youth work charities.
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The overall aim of the program will be achieved by the following goals:
1. Acquiring youth work values.
2. Developing leadership and management skills in youth work.
3. Possessing essential competencies and technical methodologies and tools in youth work leadership and influence.
4. Practising the profession of youth work during the fellowship
5. To continuously improve the future of effective leadership in the youth sector in promoting the benefits of youth work for young people specifically and communities more generally.
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The programme defined five outcome-driven golden threads (GT) to support and enable NFP youth leaders. The five golden threads permeate the program design, delivery, and demonstration of learning, they also;
- act as the link between all program elements, from initial design to delivery and demonstration of impact and
- ensure that the design fulfills both the client brief and objectives as well as reflecting LD and AMBS expertise.
The program was launched in Riyadh in August 2024, with 33 leaders from the youth work sector across KSA coming together to be introduced to the program as a whole and engage in the first of the interactive face to face sessions.
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​The overall aim of the program will be achieved by the following goals:
1. Acquiring youth work values.
2. Developing leadership and management skills in youth work.
3. Possessing essential competencies and technical methodologies and tools in youth work leadership and influence.
4. Practising the profession of youth work during the fellowship
5. To continuously improve the future of effective leadership in the youth sector in promoting the benefits of youth work for young people specifically and communities more generally.
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The programme defined five outcome-driven golden threads (GT) to support and enable NFP youth leaders. The five golden threads permeate the program design, delivery, and demonstration of learning, they also;
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- act as the link between all program elements, from initial design to delivery and demonstration of impact and
- ensure that the design fulfills both the client brief and objectives as well as reflecting LD and AMBS expertise.
Leaders Development (LD) undertook wide-ranging research with KSA Foundations to identify the attitudes, skills, knowledge and practices underpinning leadership competencies and behaviors needed to support individual and organizational development in the KSA NFP youth leadership sector. In supporting LD in the program's design, Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) undertook brief research to highlight the specific skill sets aligned to the behaviors required by each of the fifteen competencies.
From this research, 5 high-level learning goals were identified and intended learning outcomes defined. o
Program Delivery
As with the Saudi British Fellowship Program, the Saudi British Fellowship in Youth Work Leadership program will be delivered through a combination of self assessments, face to face sessions, meeting with experts from the sector (UK and KSA) a five day leadership camp in Manchester and an Applied Youth Leadership Challenge.
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