Stakeholder Engagement for Wildlife Conservation

Why do this course?

Career starters: Improve your chances of getting your dream conservation job by getting a qualification in a required skill for many conservation positions.
Practitioners: Learn effective and ethical stakeholder engagement processes that will help you to strengthen your conservation strategy, access resources such as funds and skilled staff, and acquire consent for, and/or active participation in the conservation work.
What will I learn?

This training course has been developed with input from experienced practitioners to help conservationists engage effectively with the right stakeholders for any type of conservation project.

You will learn how to:

Apply key principles to ensure you engage with stakeholders effectively and ethically
Select stakeholders that are right for your project
Initiate the relationship to build trust and understanding
Formalise the relationship to set expectations
Manage the relationship to progress the project and adapt to changing conditions.
What will my learning experience be like?

In this online training course, we do our best to recreate the best of the interactive classroom environment, while offering you the flexibility to learn when and where you want. You will be supported throughout by our expert trainers via Zoom and WildHub.

The course is run over 5 weeks, with an average of 3.5 hours learning per week. The training combines weekly live teaching sessions and pre-recorded training videos to work from in your own time.

Where can I find out more?

The next online training course in Stakeholder Engagement for Wildlife Conservation begins on 16th April, 2024. To find out more and sign up, click here.

Who is providing this training?

WildTeam UK is a not-for-profit charity that designs and delivers training in key skills that help conservationists increase their impact. To date, we have trained over 2,000 conservationists from 118 countries.