Membership and Professional Development Board - person specification

Board Member person specification

Each Board Member should be able to demonstrate as many as possible of the following skills:

• Understanding and commitment to the IET and its objectives
• An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of Board Membership
• Integrity
• The ability to make good, independent judgements
• The ability to develop policy
• High-level strategic thinking and vision
• Ability to assess performance
• Ability to think creatively
• Willingness to speak their mind
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team and to accept consensus decisions and act  upon them
• Ability to influence, empower and where necessary lead a team
• Experience in one or more of the sectors of interest to the IET.

The Membership and Professional Development Board as an entity needs skills and experience in the following areas:

General

• Strategic leadership of a global organization
• Governance and non-executive directorship
• Serving the public interest
• Strategic planning, and monitoring and evaluating performance in commercial and non-profit organisations
• Policy development
• Financial management
• Risk management
• Influencing stakeholders
• Public relations/communication/marketing
• Understanding the international engineering and technology industry.

Specialist

• Training and development of engineers – Corporate or Armed Forces
• Educational curriculum awareness
• Knowledge of the Skills agendas of Governments (the UK and overseas)
• Technician and Apprentice knowledge
• Diversity and ethical knowledge
• HE/FE knowledge
• Knowledge of Qualifications from a Global perspective
• Knowledge of SMEs in relation to training and development of engineers
• Knowledge of the IET’s  membership and registration processes and the needs of IET’s members in these areas
• Good understanding of UK-SPEC.

Desirable

• Legal
• Awareness of young persons' issues.