Professional development assessor
Works to ascertain if an employer’s initial professional development (IPD) scheme provides the pathway for registration.
Primary focus:
The aim of employer accreditation is to ascertain whether an employer’s IPD scheme provides the professional development pathway for an engineer/technician to become registered.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Participate in a minimum of two accreditation visits a year;
- Support the visit process; e.g. approval of extensions, accreditation of new degrees, and approval of action plans;
- Attend the professional development operations committee in lieu of the visit panel chair, if required;
- Adhere to the IET's data protection policy for volunteers.
Period of appointment:
- Accreditors are expected to serve a minimum of three years in the role;
- Visit chairs are appointed for three years and then subject to annual renewal.
Appointment method:
For accreditors:
- Prospects identified, nominations or applications received;
- Distribute criteria to applicants and ask for a copy of their CV;
- Applications sent to programmes group member (or their nominee) with experience in academic accreditation and two other experienced accreditors;
- Depending on their number, the applications will be processed individually or in bulk at a programmes group meeting.
For visit chairs
- The programmes group will review membership of the team of accreditors at least once a year to consider appointing chairs from the team and inviting chairs to stand down. Outgoing chairs will be invited to remain active as an accreditor.
Training:
- Accreditors will attend a training session and also observe at least one visit.
Person specification:
Accreditors are expected to have experience in one or more of the following:
- Professional development scheme operation or management;
- Mentoring;
- Knowledge of professional development (e.g. competency assessment);
- Business and/or engineering management.
In addition, visit chairs will:
- Normally be experienced and active accreditors with leadership capability and a demonstrable interest in, and commitment to, the accreditation process;
- Be able to lead teams and help them arrive at consensual, fair and unbiased decisions;
- Take a leading role in pre and post visit accreditation activity including identifying major issues in advance of visits, resolving problems post visit and carrying out assessment activities between visits, such as extension requests;
- Normally be Fellows of the IET.
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