Occupational Certificate: Small Business Consultant
NQF 5 | SAQA ID 118741 | 244 CREDITS
Programme Details
Duration: 12 Months (Minimum)
TThe Occupational Certificate: Small Business Consultant is designed for professionals who support entrepreneurship and enterprise development. This qualification equips you with the applied knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience needed to advise, mentor, and guide small businesses toward sustainability and growth.
At The DaVinci Institute, we focus on applied, work-integrated learning. This programme develops your ability to diagnose business challenges, improve financial and operational performance, support compliance, and strengthen strategy in real-world small business contexts. You will graduate with a strong, practice-oriented consulting capability, ready to contribute meaningfully to South Africa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
What You Will Learn
You will develop the capability to:
- Appraise personal capabilities for performing business consulting.
- Examine due diligence and compliance with relevant legislation.
- Evaluate business performance, business owner and activities.
- Provide strategic and operational consulting service.
- Establish and implement change management structures.
- Entrench project implementation approach.
Programme Structure
This is a fully integrated occupational qualification consisting of:
- Knowledge Modules (Project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, risk, procurement, stakeholders and more)
- Practical Skills Modules (Planning, scheduling, costing, controlling, reporting, and delivery management)
- Workplace Experience Modules (Applied learning in real project environments)
- All components are compulsory and designed to build complete, work-ready project management competence.
Entry Requirements
- An NQF Level 4 with Mathematical Literacy and Communication.
- Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) will be considered for experienced professionals who do not meet the formal entry requirements.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Alternative access routes may be granted through the RPL process, evaluated by the Senate on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please refer to the RPL, CAT and Articulation Policy or email: admissions@davinci.ac.za inci.ac.za
Online Information Sessions:
Meet our Subject Matter Experts to find out more about this programme.
Choose from three intakes per year:
March
June
October
Study Mode:
Online distance education with online learning engagements
Duration:
12 Months (Minimum)
Support:
Accreditation:
The DaVinci Institute for Technology Management (Pty) Ltd, Registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997. Registration No. 2004/HE07/003. This qualification is accredited by the Council on Higher Education and Registered on the National Qualification Framework (NQF) by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).
FEES:
Application Fee:
R 350.00
Admission Fee:
The admission fee is a non-refundable fee payable prior to the commencement of the programme.
Registration Fee:
R4 200.00
When you exit the qualification, you should be equipped to:
- Evaluate management development theories and the impact they may have on sustainable development within the student’s economic context.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply techniques related to the management of technology, the management of innovation, and the management of people processes within a working or community environment.
- Examine and communicate ideas and concepts related to systems thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making.
- Apply technology, innovation, people, and systems thinking concepts to transform individuals, communities, and/or organisations.