Becoming a SFIA Accredited Consultant

Summary

This process is for the accreditation of individual consultants. Organisations seeking accreditation should use the Accredited Partner process.

The aim of The SFIA Accredited Consultant scheme is to check that consultants have an effective knowledge of SFIA.

The scheme also includes a review of applicants’ CVs to discover their level of have the appropriate experience in the management of IT skills in an organisation. This is considered as a strategic or organisational issue; it is not just a matter of writing job descriptions and giving individual appraisals.

Accreditation is available to those who can demonstrate:

• Influential involvement in the skills development approach taken in an organisation of significant size (say, over 100 IT staff).
• Hands-on involvement in the skills development process in information technology (this would typically be the direct management of technical staff).
• Appreciation of the HR issues relating to skills development (e.g. salary, career, recruitment, retention, deployment, assessment, development, resource management).
• Good, broad understanding of IT and the IT industry.
• Practical involvement of the implementation of SFIA *
• Experience of providing consultancy.

* The CV, or an accompanying document, should include evidence of significant involvement in an implementation of SFIA. This must be specific about the extent of the consultant’s responsibilities and contribution to the project.

PROCESS (steps 1 and 2 can take please reverse order, if you prefer order)

UK applicants should add VAT at the prevailing rate to all prices.

Step 1. Attend an official SFIA course

Click for a list of SFIA Training Providers (they are independent of SFIA Foundation).

Step 2. Assessment

Make a payment of £100 (per applicant) plus Value Added Tax (UK applicants only) to SFIA Foundation:

Tamasin Connett
SFIA Management Accountant
c/o BCS, First Floor, Block D,
North Star House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FA
UK

Details for electronic funds transfer can be provided. Send a request to ops@sfia.org.uk.

Email your CV to the Operations Manager at ops@sfia.org.uk.

If successful

If you receive a positive assessment, and have attended the course, you will be notified that you have been accepted as an Accredited Consultant.

You will be sent a certificate and the SFIA Accredited Consultant logo. You will be able to display the logo on literature describing your services.

At this stage, please tell us if you want your name listed on the SFIA web site. If so, the fee is £200 per year.

If not successful

The foundation will not accept a revised CV until 12 months have passed.

CONDITIONS

Your status as a SFIA Accredited Consultant does not permit you to distribute copies of SFIA. When your clients decide to use SFIA, they must obtain the framework directly from The SFIA Foundation. This involves on-line registration and the issue to them of an end-user licence. (There is no charge for the end-user licence when the framework is used internally for skills management.)

The Foundation reserves the right to check with you, at some future date (but not within a year of accreditation), whether you have used your knowledge of SFIA and thereby maintained your knowledge, and to withdraw accreditation if you have not.

If accreditation is terminated for any reason, you must cease using the SFIA Accredited Consultant appellation, and cease displaying the SFIA logos.