Elements and Performance Criteria

Community leadership may include:
Individuals acting in a formal representative role
Elected management committees
Formally constituted groups/steering committees/reference groups
Key people with recognised influence

Support mechanisms may include:
Resources
Information/training development
Recruitment and selection of leaders and managers
Networks
Groups
Practice frameworks
Individual and ongoing support
Procedures for identifying potential community leaders

Organisational structures may include:
Management
Consultations
Accountability
Decision making
Advisory systems
Policy, guidelines, objectives and principles
Resources

Critical aspects of assessment:
Identification and development of opportunities for leadership within the community
Providing support for leadership structures and the development of individuals

Essential knowledge:
Community development principles and strategies
Concepts of effective leadership
Structure and nature of the community
Significant cultural awareness, practices and protocol
Availability of skills development training
Support mechanisms and structures in the range of relevant communities and cultural contexts

Essential skills:
Negotiation, liaison, networking
Facilitation

Resource implications
Access to a workplace or community or to an effectively simulated environment

Consistency in performance:
Consistency in performance should consider the range of situations in which workers will be supporting community leadership

Context of assessment:
This unit will be best assessed in the workplace or in a environment that simulates the normal range of workplace conditions