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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY 
PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION: 
IPMA - IPM Associate 
DESIGNATION ID DESIGNATION TITLE
410  IPMA - IPM Associate 
PROFESSIONAL BODY DESIGNATION STATUS
IPM - Institute of People Management  Reregistered 
SAQA DECISION NUMBER REGISTRATION START DATE REGISTRATION END DATE
SAQA 08143/24  2022-05-10  2027-05-09 


DESCRIPTION:
The Institute of People (IPM) is SAQA recognised Professional Body for the purpose of NQF Act 67 2008, IPM aims is to provide appropriate, relevant knowledge and information on effective leadership.
IPM Vision: The portal to thought Leadership in People.
Mission: To be the Leading and Trusted HR Professional Body of choice and Aims to achieve this through:
  • Being a Portal to Thought Leadership in People Management issue.
  • Enhance and building the reputation of the HR Profession.
  • Contributing to the national agenda through critical skills development program as well large scale societal impact programs.
  • Building capacity and capability of HR professionals and ensuring that they operate in terms of the highest professional and ethical standards. 
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    AWARDING CRITERIA
    For the Professional Designation to be awarded, professionals must comply with the following minimum requirements: 
    Underlying Registered Qualification or Part Qualification:
    Associate Member[IPMA]: Qualification: Holds a minimum of a 3 year IPM (SAQA) recognised Diploma in the field of Human Resources Management. 
    Experiential Learning or Experience
  • At least 2 years of practical experience in Human Resources Management.
  • Is involved with human resource management and development as part of their everyday business.
  • Junior practitioner following a course of study in HR and related fields.
  • A generalists who plays a supporting role in organisations and may occupy roles such as HR and Learning and Development administrators, co-ordinators, officers, advisers, recruiters, trainers and roles in shared service centres. 
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    Competency Assessment
    N/A 
    Designation RPL Statement
    This Designation may be awarded through Recognition of Prior Learning. 
    RETAINING CRITERIA
    In order to ensure the currency of professional knowledge and to retain the Professional Designation, the professional must comply with the following minimum requirements: 
    Code of Conduct
    Members must adhere to the Professional Body Codes of Conduct and Ethics. 
    Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
    The Institute of People Management strongly supports Continuing Professional Development for all professionals. Members of the Institute are required to reflect on and review their knowledge and skills levels and requirements regularly. This allows them to uphold their professional commitment to providing informed and insightful information, advice and guidance on effective human resources management and development (HRM and D) for all stakeholders, including employers and employees.

    Continuing Professional Development establishes and maintains good practice within the HR profession and helps to build forward looking approaches which ensure HRM and D remains relevant and effective into the future. In this way, Continuing Professional Development builds the Profession and adds value for organisations, in addition to opening up new career opportunities for individuals.

    The Institute's Code of Conduct, which members undertake to abide by, states that members must demonstrate a steadfast commitment to enhancing individual learning and development and to establishing the processes and structures that will assist the organisation to meet its current and future business objectives. This commitment should be well-evidenced through the care taken to ensure those working for them have the appropriate level of competence, supervision and support.

    The IPM holds the strong view that maintaining and enhancing professionalism and competence through CPD activities is of strategic importance.
    Members must take individual responsibility for their own professional development.
    They must maintain a record of CPD activities undertaken throughout the year. The Institute of People Management has provided a log for this purpose.
    A range of activities should be undertaken in order to build up CPD over the year. Activities can be broken down into verifiable and non-verifiable activities.
    Verifiable activities include formal face to face learning on courses and programmes, structured online learning, membership and participation in relevant professional discussion forums. For verifiable activities, evidence of attendance and or completion must be supplied such as a certificate of attendance or an assessment of work.
    Non-verifiable activities include coaching, mentoring, seminars, delivering lectures, conferences, networking events, webinars, reflection notes detailing on the job learning, reflection notes on participation in new initiatives or project work, inside and outside of the organisation. Activities can also include reading articles and books.
    The lists of verifiable and non-verifiable activities are not inclusive and further guidance on activities can be sought from the Institute.
    Broadly 70% of activities should focus on areas of human resources, and 30% on other business relevant areas.
    Members at Associate and Professional Membership level are expected to complete a CPD log evidencing a minimum of 6 days of development each year.
    The Institute operates from a position of trust and accords each member with responsibility for their own professional development. We will not ask you to submit your CPD when applying to renew your membership. We do however reserve the right to request to review your log as part of our quality assurance processes. We will randomly ask Associate and Professional members to submit their log to date. We will provide you with a period of 7 working days to ensure your record is full and complete and reflects all the activities you have undertaken. 
    Fees
    Ensure that the annual membership fee is paid. 


    PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION PROGRESSION PATHWAY
    (The Designation being reported on here is shown in italics.)

    Sequence Designation ID Designation Title
    1410IPMA - IPM Associate
    2531Senior Associate Member
    3411IPMP - IPM Professional
    4532Senior Professional Member
    5533Executive Professional Member
    6412IPMF - IPM Fellow


    PROFESSIONAL BODY WEB ADDRESS:
    For more information on this Professional Designation, please visit http://www.ipm.co.za