An additional opportunity for members for professional registration as an environmentalist
Formally launched on 12 January 2021, the Institute is now taking applications for the award of this accreditation. Before looking at the requirements, it is worth examining why REnvP finds a natural home in IOM3.
At the end of 2020, we were successful in our licence extension bid to the Society for the Environment, enabling IOM3 to award the new Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) accreditation. This is both a welcome addition to our stable of professional registrations that members seeking competency-based recognition can apply for, and to our Sustainable Future programme in the lead up to COP26 in Glasgow in November.
As society makes the transition to one that is low-carbon and resource efficient, a number of technology sectors within the IOM3 outreach are under scrutiny from the public and policy makers to demonstrate they are taking steps to minimise their impact upon the environment and prove they are contributing to sustainable development. Having an appropriately qualified workforce with proven professional competency at both the Chartered and Registered levels relating to environmental best practice, a commitment to maintaining professional standards, and being subject to a related code of professional conduct, is one of many ways in which this can be shown. This is also needed to support the changes – in some cases the paradigm shift – that organisations and industries will need to make to remain not just competitive, but more fundamentally viable and relevant in a world committed to a net-zero carbon operating landscape by 2050.
IOM3 has had a licence to award Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) professional registration since 2009. Since then, a committed and influential group across the many IOM3 technical communities has grown and developed. They have organised and held their own events, as well as pushing forward the sustainable development and environmental agenda in their sectors, and contributing to related technical content published by IOM3 and other relevant bodies. CEnv requires prospective applicants to hold the minimum of a Master’s level academic qualification in addition to appropriate experience from which to develop the underpinning competences. REnvP is the equivalent professional recognition for those qualified to either Bachelor’s degree or RQF Level 5 qualification/HND, with at least three years’ appropriate experience to develop the underpinning competences. Unlike the assessment process for CEnv, there is no interview required for REnvP. IOM3 hopes to develop a similarly committed and dynamic group who will join its CEnv in becoming the spokespeople and commentators for the profession and their industries in the countdown to 2050 and perhaps even earlier.
Please contact us if you would like further information about this exciting new professional registration opportunity, or visit the IOM3 events page to sign up for our ‘REnvP in a day’ workshops.
