Full Membership (MIEMA)

Full Membership of IEMA represents a professional standard of knowledge, understanding and experience in the fields of environmental management and assessment.

A Full Member of IEMA is typically an environmental professional and practitioner that contributes most of their worktime to the goal of sustainable development and that give their time to increase and improve the environmental knowledge and practice of their business, clients, staff and/or industry.

Successful candidates will be entitled to use the suffix MIEMA to show that they are highly knowledgeable and experienced environmental professionals.

Full Membership Leaflet.pdf (262.03 KB)

Application

The assessment for Full Membership entails a written application and an interview with two Full Membership Assessors.

The success rate for Full membership applicants in 2007 was 67%

The Full Membership Application Pack can be downloaded here:

To download the IEMA Code of Practice by which all members must abide, open the following link:
IEMA Code of Practice 2008.pdf (115.83 KB)

The Professional Standards department offer a free review of draft short papers. Advice will be given on areas where the short paper can be improved upon prior to submission within a completed application. Please email draft short papers for review to professional.standards@iema.net

Full Membership - Continuing Professional Development

Full Members of IEMA are required to sign up to a code of practice. Item five of the code of practice requires you to develop and maintain standards of professional competence and knowledge through a combination of training, learning and practical experience.

As part of IEMA’s commitment to ensuring that the code of practice is being followed, we require Full Members to submit evidence of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) on an annual basis. At present IEMA is not prescriptive on the amount of CPD required, but it does require evidence of CPD undertaken. CPD submissions will be monitored and recorded

To support our members we have developed guidance on CPD. Within the guidance is a standard template which you may wish to use to record CPD:

IEMA Guide to Preparing a Professional Development Plan.pdf (178.51 KB)
IEMA CPD Pack Feb 2006.pdf (220.26 KB)
IEMA CPD Pack Feb 06.doc (945 KB)

Membership Workshops are held prior to each assessment. They provide an opportunity to obtain tips and guidance on how to approach the assessment. These workshops are extremely popular and are FREE to members.

Please see our events page for upcoming workshops

Full Membership Frequently Asked Questions

Please visit our Full Membership FAQ page.

If you have any other questions or queries about Full Membership, please email info@iema.net and include your full contact details.

IEMA Membership benefits

Networking

There are regular opportunities to network with experienced environmental practitioners from the fields of environmental management, auditing and assessment. This opens up the opportunity to form professional relationships that can be mutually beneficial.

Professional Development

Gain professional qualifications and access support through the Continued Professional Development Scheme and careers service.

Recognition

Be recognised and valued as a professional practitioner across the environmental field.

Magazine Subscription

Keep up to date with the development of best practice programmes and with topical issues in the free bi-monthly magazine ‘the environmentalist’.

Free Regional Events

On joining IEMA, members are allocated to a region and receive regular invitations to free and discounted regional and national activities, events and environmental conferences

Publications

Receive free or discounted publications and professional indemnity insurance. IEMA produces a number of publications, including reports and guidelines on best practice.

Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)

Full and Fellow members of IEMA now have the opportunity to become Chartered Environmentalist.

Income Tax Relief

Income tax relief on your annual membership subscription.

Professional Indemnity Insurance

IEMA works with preferred Broker S-Tech Insurance Services and through S-Tech IEMA members are able to obtain free of charge advice, information and quotations. Please visit Professional Indemnity Insurance for more details.

If you require further information on membership or the benefits of membership please email us at info@iema.net