Advanced Occupational Certificate: Media/Programme Content Production Manager
Prepare to organise, coordinate and manage content production across audio-visual, film, television and radio environments. The qualification develops the administrative, people, resource, compliance and quality-management skills needed to take a production from plan to delivery.
Learn the full process.
Content production management is the work that turns a creative plan into an organised, compliant and deliverable production. Learners cover administration, schedules, budgets, staffing, procurement, logistics, risk, quality and the coordination of people and resources across radio, television and audio-visual projects.
The qualification is aimed at people moving into production coordination or management, as well as current industry practitioners who want formal recognition and broader management responsibility. The work requires clear communication, sound judgement and the ability to keep several production priorities moving at the same time.
Skills you can use.
- Administer and coordinate the flow of media-content production activities.
- Recruit, contract, organise and manage production staff and contributors.
- Procure and schedule the resources required for a production.
- Build budgets, project plans, workflows and production documentation.
- Identify the legal, policy and regulatory requirements that apply to a production.
- Manage risk, quality and delivery across radio, television and audio-visual work.
- Use current and emerging tools to solve production-management problems.
Knowledge. Practice. Workplace experience.
Choose face-to-face study in Johannesburg or Pretoria, or complete the learning component online. The programme combines guided knowledge sessions, practical work and workplace experience.
Online study does not remove the practical, workplace or external-assessment requirements. Admissions will confirm where practical activities, workplace evidence and the EISA must be completed for your intake.
Knowledge modules · 76 credits
- Fundamentals of administration
- Management and leadership concepts
- Human capital management
- Finance for non-financial managers
- Quality and risk management
- Media/programme content production management
Practical skill modules · 69 credits
- Production administration
- Procurement of production staff
- Management of media/programme content production
- Resource planning and availability
Work experience modules · 96 credits
- Media production administration
- Human-resource procurement and management
- Coordination of staff and guests
- Compliance management
- Production and quality management
How progress is assessed.
Assessment combines internal knowledge and practical work with substantial workplace experience. Learners must complete and sign the Statement of Work Experience and provide proof that all knowledge and practical modules have been successfully completed.
The External Integrated Summative Assessment includes written assessment and practical tasks at an approved assessment site. The Assessment Quality Partner is MICT SETA.
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Course prospectus
Fee structure
Check that you qualify.
Admissions review is required. The current SAQA qualification record does not publish a qualification-specific minimum entry requirement. Applicants should submit their highest qualification, CV and relevant media-production experience so that RMA can assess access against the approved programme and RPL rules.
Do not replace this wording with a fixed entry requirement until the approved curriculum or RMA accreditation documentation has been checked.
Apply online and select your preferred study format. Submit your identity document and proof of the required prior qualification. Admissions will confirm the intake, timetable, practical and workplace arrangements, and any additional documents. Upload your CV and highest qualification with the application. Admissions must complete the entry review before an offer is issued.