Benefits of accreditation

Accreditation will provide you with:

• a portable badge of competence that acts as a ‘license to practice’ recognises knowledge, skills, and experience aligned to external industry standards
• clarity of the standard and what is expected at each level
• support to help you progress in your Project Delivery career
• a clear path to professional recognition
• increased credibility as an accredited member of the project deliver profession and a stronger professional identity.

As a manager, you can use accreditation:

• to support robust and consistent feedback and create development plans for their team members
• as a recruitment and deployment tool, ensuring that individuals possess the required skills and experience as evidenced by the license to practice, for specific roles.

Accreditation can support your organisation and the wider government to:

1. Have a greater understanding of the skills and experience of the function.
2. Set clear expectations for what individuals need to have done/learned/developed before they can work on bigger and more complex projects – confirmed as a ‘license to practice’.
3. Have the ability to identify and more quickly move people on to priority projects – getting our most experienced leaders into our most challenging roles.
4. Be able to use the data from accreditation to support workforce planning. It could be used to map future business needs to current skills and capabilities to support recruitment and pipeline building by identifying any gaps or pools of resource
5. Have a scheme that will support future changes to reward and recognition based on professional skills.
6. Foster a culture of professional development across the PDP community.
7. Improve employee engagement, recruitment and retention through an enhanced employee value proposition by aligning standards with the professional bodies.
8. Increase knowledge sharing in the Project Delivery Community, as all professionals will be required to continue their professional development by sharing their experiences, offering mentoring and collectively increasing the overall standard of professional practice within government.