These are our vision principles and ambitions.
Offer everyone flexible and inclusive volunteering opportunities to contribute to the evolving engineering and technology landscape
- Demonstrate clear pathways to volunteering success
- Overcome perceived or actual hurdles to volunteering
- Assess our volunteering portfolio to meet changing needs
Provide the right environment to strengthen professional and personal skills, and grow networks
- Provide opportunities for learning and development in all roles and locations
- Support the volunteering community to conduct their roles responsibly, and safely
- Ensure the volunteering community are made aware of all important information pertinent to their roles
Enable everyone to recognise and celebrate their own - and others’ - contribution and impact
- Ensure everyone is aware of existing recognition schemes and programs that celebrate volunteering excellence
- Representatives of the volunteering community within the IET Governance structure are visible and contactable
- The volunteering community has a platform to communicate with each other
- Individuals have the opportunity to be profiled and celebrated in a public setting
Keep enhancing the volunteering experience
- Continuously look for development or accreditation opportunities to improve our offering to the volunteering community
- Continue to work across IET departments to ensure consistency in our approach
- Global ‘one team working’ is at the heart of everything we do
Give the volunteering community the opportunity to understand how their work supports our mission to engineer a better world
- The volunteering community is clear on how it contributes to the wider IET strategy and societal challenges
- There are effective mechanisms for gathering feedback from the volunteering community
- Volunteers are empowered to contribute to strategic work outside of the main Governance structures
We’re upgrading our contact centre to make it quicker and easier for you to speak to the right member of our team.
From Thursday, 30 to Friday, 31 October, our phone lines will be temporarily unavailable while we upgrade our systems. For any urgent enquiries during this time, please email membership@theiet.org and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
From Monday, 3 November, we’re moving to one central phone number for all enquiries. This change will make it easier to reach the right team quickly and improve your experience.
Thank you for your patience as we improve how we connect with you.