AI Leadership – AI Delivery & Organisational Transformation

This apprenticeship unit is for individuals in leadership roles responsible for setting direction and who have oversight of AI use, who, with the support of their employer, need upskilling in the safe and effective delivery of AI-enabled organisational transformation. It is suited to those overseeing implementation of AI and ensuring that AI solutions are integrated effectively into organisational processes and ways of working.

Topics covered include:

• Leading delivery of AI-enabled organisational change, ensuring AI solutions are sustainable and aligned to long-term organisational objectives.
• Assessing and managing workforce impacts of AI adoption, including reskilling, role redesign, anticipating and responding to potential job displacement and workforce reduction.
• Assessing the impact on the organisation’s wider ecosystem, for example, suppliers and digitally excluded groups.
• Implementing organisational level AI risk management, including monitoring, the use of tools, mitigation and escalation.
• Achieving audit requirements and regulatory compliance, including incident and security response planning.
• Monitoring performance and risks of deployed AI systems, including bias, drift and security vulnerabilities.
• Communicating AI risks and opportunities internally and externally, including communication with non-technical stakeholders, and regulators.

Assessment

Learners will need to pass a skills test delivered by Exeter College to demonstrate that they have acquired the skills and knowledge set out in the apprenticeship unit.

Employers will need to validate the result to confirm the learner has been successful.

Funding

This apprenticeship unit is currently eligible for funding.

This apprenticeship unit is funded at £750 via an employer apprenticeship service account.

This apprenticeship unit will be fully funded for SME employers.

Large employers will fund this unit via their apprenticeship levy account. If levy funds aren’t available, a 5% co-investment rate applies

Learners must be employed and must be 19 years or over.

Must be working in a leadership position within an organisation with autonomy to deliver technological change and inform investment decisions.