Capability and Acquisition Practitioner: Deliver

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This course is delivered via Microsoft Teams or face-to-face by Cranfield University at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham. It brings together personnel employed in Capability and acquisition (CAPAC) management from different areas of the Defence Operating Model.

You will engage in seminars, tutorials, and exercises to practice and consolidate skills and knowledge.

This course is suitable if you work at desk officer level in the Front Line Commands (FLCs) and enabling organisations supporting programme/project boards, project teams (including requirements managers) and programme management offices. It is also suitable for personnel who are responsible for preparing mandates and the delivery of bounded programmes to meet the capability requirement. This includes the development and management of requirements, benefit maps, risks, and the integration of changes into the front line.

What you will learn

The aim of the CAPAC Practitioner: Deliver course is to enable military and civilian staff from Head Office, FLCs and enabling organisations to acquire an understanding of the MOD's CAPAC and financial management processes, their application in the development and generation of affordable and strategy-compliant force structures and capabilities.

You will examine project, programme and portfolio management, requirements management, systems engineering and other well-established bodies of knowledge which are critical to delivering value for money to the MOD.

Modules include:

• strategic direction to the development and generation of sustainable military capabilities
• strategic force development
• finance
• capability coherence and strategic balance of investment

How this course will help your career

The CAPAC Practitioner: Deliver course builds on existing knowledge, or the learning acquired from the CAPAC fundamentals and awareness training. Successful completion of this course will develop your CAPAC knowledge and skills setting the foundations to become one of the next generation of leaders and managers that deliver military capabilities to the front line and support them through life.

If you successfully complete the course, you will be awarded the CAPAC 'awareness' education competency. This training will facilitate progression to practitioner level and the opportunity for line managers to award of the FKSE 'practitioner' competency through the annual reporting system.

What our students have said…

"All the lessons were very useful. They have greatly enhanced my overall knowledge."

"All instructors clearly knew their field of expertise and delivered it with vigour and enthusiasm."

Who can attend this course

• Military
• MOD civil servants
• Industry
• Internationals

Before you attend

You are required to complete the online Defence Learning Environment (DLE) training sessions prior to attending any practitioner course.

• CAPAC Fundamentals (DLE code CAF)
• Capability and Acquisition Awareness Course (cranfield.ac.uk) should also be considered by individuals who are new to the CAPAC field to ensure the foundations are set in preparation for building knowledge on the practitioner courses.
• Financial Skills Certificate
• Commercial Awareness for Non-Commercial Officers
• Social Values training Government Commercial College: Log in to the site (govcommercialcollege.co.uk) (Individuals will have to register for an account if they don't already have one).

Before attending you should also familiarise yourselves with 'How Defence Works' available on the gov.uk website.

How the course will be taught

• Face-to-face/Residential
• Online (Virtual)

How you will be assessed

There is no exam associated with this course, although you will have the opportunity to test your understanding during syndicate workshops and tutorials.