Type: Accreditation
Number of Vacancies: Multiple
Location: Open to volunteers worldwide
Time commitment: One training day and two days observation, followed by at least two further days a year to complete accreditation, upon request. Training will be provided throughout your time volunteering in this position.
Requirements: CIBSE Chartered Membership
Responsibilities: Contribute to the future of building services engineering and graduate employability by helping to maintain and improve the quality of higher education engineering in the UK. If you’re a senior academic or industrialist, you can apply to become an Accreditation Moderator.
Description: In your first year, you’ll attend one training day and observe one visit of two days, you will then be able to be part of the visiting panel for accreditation visits. You will be expected to keep up your knowledge of accreditation by attending training events and attending at least one visit a year. Visits involve one to two days of preparation before and a half-day after for report review.
Visit Panel Chairs will also be expected to attend a one-day Academic Accreditation Committee to introduce visit reports they’ve chaired, provide offline advice on approving accreditation extensions, new degrees, and approval of action plans (two days a year) and produce visit reports (one day per visit).
Academics
As an Academic Moderator, you’ll be professionally registered and have experience as:
- an external examiner
- a course leader or programme director with a leading role in course management or design
- a member of an institutional validation or review committee
- a quality assurance auditor.
- CIBSE Chartered member
Industrialists
- You need to have knowledge and experience or an interest in Higher Education sector.
- CIBSE Chartered Member
To apply, please complete the application form and email it to [email protected]
Find out more:
Accreditation of New Programmes
Re-accreditation of Existing Programmes