Online Social Procurement Practitioner Masterclass
If you would like to do a progressive learning course over four weeks, then this masterclass is for you!
Delivered virtually, there will be four sessions as part of this learning program. All sessions are two hours in length.
- Designed by key sector stakeholders to transition aspiring social procurement practitioners into business for good champions
- Deepen your social procurement knowledge and learn why social procurement is fundamental to sustainable business growth
- Address the toughest challenges in social procurement, improving strategy, culture, and influencing others
- Develop your leadership, your change management skillset and essential technical knowledge
- How we can collaborate and innovate together for a stronger social enterprise sector
This masterclass focuses on the skills needed to scale social impact from within your organisation, combining lived experiences and applied theories from industry trailblazers who will establish best practice techniques that you can apply immediately!
Expression of interest is now open until Friday, 14 March 2025 with the course starting in April. Register your interest using the form below.
What you'll learn
In Session One, we'll dive into social procurement.
- Discover the origins, history, and evolution of social procurement.
- Learn why social procurement is fundamental to sustainable business growth.
- Unlock the various ways to embed social procurement into your business.
In Session Two, we'll explore the barriers – real and imagined, and bust common myths to create a clear pathway to unlock business for good.
- Personal/individual - explore the driving forces behind change resistance, and build strategies to activate change champions.
- Organisational – explore the parts of your organisation most resistant to change, and build strategies to empower engagement.
- Systemic – understand and navigate government policies to support your drive for change.
In Session Three, we'll unpack what it takes to create real change:
- Discover how a Theory of Change framework can support your bold initiatives.
- Maximise value from impact measurement, and explore its inherent complexities.
- Learn how we capture and report impact created through social procurement to guide your own change journey.
- Build a compelling narrative to describe impact.
In Session Four, we'll bring in our team of social procurement experts to provide insights and catalyse your journey as a social procurement frontrunner.
- Develop your pitch for creating social impact through procurement.
- Find your own authentic voice and message in making the case for social procurement.
- Hear from those already leading the charge on how to effectively drive change.
Course speakers
This course will be delivered by Social Traders, with a faculty of social procurement practitioner experts.
Monique Ward
Rebecca Green
Abigail Peak
Lauren McAlister
This masterclass is open to anyone interested in creating impact through social procurement and wants to learn practices that will further drive social good.
This could include:
- Sourcing and contracting, supplier management, supplier risk, policy, category management, data and analytics, operational procurement/purchasing, sustainability, advisory, procurement or supply chain consultants, procurement adjacent roles (finance, contract management, legal affairs, workplace services, marketing and communications), executive assistants.
- Suitable for those in private, public and not-for-profit organisations
- Anyone in a sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG or social impact roles, social enterprises or suppliers creating impact looking to improve their opportunity to respond to social procurement opportunities.
Assumed knowledge:
A conceptual understanding of the procurement function is assumed. We’ll discuss spend profiles and their characteristics, the sourcing process and other levers available within the procurement ecosystem which support the social procurement practitioners' objectives.
We can support learners joining who may be missing core concepts; let us know when registering.