As a role model for professionalism, excellence and professional registration, you’ll inspire, attract and develop the next generation of engineers and enhance public trust in the engineering and technology profession.
You’ll do this by providing one-to-one support to potential applicants to help them develop their knowledge, skills, and confidence and achieve professional registration as part of their wider career goals.
Person requirements:
- Member of the IET.
- Professionally registered with the Engineering Council as an EngTech, ICTTech, IEng or CEng.
What you can gain from this role
This role will help you build your relationship management and communication skills, raise your awareness of Professional Registration and provide an opportunity to widen your professional network.
Mentoring can also help you to develop leadership, management and interpersonal skills.
Time commitment
Approximately five days per year, dependent upon number of pairings undertaken
You’ll work with your mentees as and when they contact you – with regular (monthly or quarterly) meetings as they work towards registration
If you’re interested in finding out more about the role, you can download the role description below and visit our Mentor web page.
Apply to become a Professional Development Advisor
Please be aware we are not currently accepting any further volunteers for this position.
Event registration will be unavailable from 6pm on Thursday, 24 September 2026 until 9am on Friday, 25 September 2026.
We’re making upgrades to our event registration system.
On Thursday, 24 September 2026 from 6pm, our registration system will be temporarily unavailable while we upgrade our systems. For any urgent enquiries during this time, please email events@theiet.org and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.