Chartered Membership (Chartered MCIPD)
Gain the professional edge and credibility you need to advance your career. Chartered Membership (Chartered MCIPD) validates your expertise and elevates your influence in the profession.
Gain the professional edge and credibility you need to advance your career. Chartered Membership (Chartered MCIPD) validates your expertise and elevates your influence in the profession.
Chartered Membership recognises your strategic and operational expertise, professional achievements and experience within the people profession. The designation inspires confidence that you are able to drive operational change and are beginning to influence strategic decision making with your knowledge and experience.
BENEFITS
Use the Chartered MCIPD designation to demonstrate your ability to lead strategic thinking, drive change and create value for your organisation.
Use your knowledge to address and influence the approach in your organisation.
Access trusted, up-to-date resources to inform your decisions and actions.
When you're a Chartered Member, you can use the designation Chartered MCIPD after your name.
You can apply for Chartered Membership if you have at least one year of experience working at Chartered Member level.
This will mean, you are an experienced people professional who strategically delivers solutions that drive change and shape organisational and professional progress. Leveraging your expertise, you influence stakeholders and make evidence-based decisions that align people strategies with business goals and broader industry trends.
The membership levels are aligned with the Profession Map. The membership standards contain the core knowledge and core behaviours of the map, which you need to demonstrate in order to join as a Chartered Member. Find out more about the membership standards.
See below for detailed route options.
If you have completed a CIPD Advanced diploma (Level 7) or or a CIPD accredited Postgraduate Diploma/Masters degree from a recognised university approved by CIPD, you may be able to upgrade to Chartered Member by completing an Upgrade Assessment.
Find out more information on the Upgrade Assessment
If you’re currently working at a Chartered Member level and can demonstrate how you meet the membership standards, become a Chartered Member by completing an Experience Assessment.
This experience based, no study route into membership recognises the knowledge you’ve gained, and your impact as a people professional through a written submission and professional discussion with an assessor.
Find out if you are eligible for Experience Assessment
As an apprentice on one of the HR, L&D or People standards, you will be eligible to come into CIPD membership. You can apply for CIPD Student Membership at any stage of your journey. Once you successfully complete your End Point Assessment (EPA), you will be eligible for a professional grade of membership.
Find out more about membership for apprenticesNote: All membership levels require payment of a one-off joining fee of £40 or €46
which is paid when you first become a member or when you rejoin membership after letting it lapse.
For more information, please visit membership fees.