CRCWSC launches professional development course for ‘Building a strong business case for water sensitive city projects and programs’

An innovative new course will be offered in early 2016 with the aim of building the capacity of urban water professionals to assess the costs and benefits of water sensitive city programs and to influence the processes in getting projects off the ground.

This course, the first in the CRCWSC Innovation Skills Series, is being developed in collaboration with state-based capacity building program and industry stakeholders, and will build skills and knowledge to successfully develop and gain support for business cases to deliver water sensitive cities projects and programs.

Program participants will learn through an innovative delivery model that blends a short (2 day) intensive face-to-face course followed by a longer period of planned work-based learning (3 months), enabling participants to learn by doing in the context of their own projects.

The course will offer expert tuition, hands-on experiential learning which minimises time out of work, the opportunity to be part of a network of practitioners across the Australian urban water sector who face similar challenges, and the production of valuable and practical business case outputs for organisational planning and action.

Who should enrol?

While applicable to a wide range of professionals this program is targeted at professionals working within local governments, including scientists and engineers, landscape architects, urban planners and designers, and project managers with:

• at least 3 years of experience in the urban water sector
• a role in developing and delivering water sensitive or integrated water
  management projects and programs
• a desire to improve their capacity to generate change in the urban water sector.

To receive further information on dates, locations and registration costs please register your expression of interest here and we will send you additional information.

To find out more about the course, please contact Pablo Orams p.orams@watercentre.org.