Why mentoring matters
Mentoring is a powerful catalyst for change.
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For mentees, it is an effective way to progress your career by accessing the knowledge and experience of an expert, impartial mentor.
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For mentors, it can develop your existing leadership skills by supporting a mentee’s growth. It is about giving back to the profession, enhancing your skills and sharing your knowledge and experiences to help mentees.
Elevate mentoring for personal growth and professional leadership
Elevate is our mentoring programme with a focus on career advancement and personal development, rather than for achieving professional membership/registration. Elevate is aimed at members at every level - from Student to Fellow.
It pairs mentees with mentors who can share their insights on a wide variety of topics to expand mentees’ skills and success in:
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Building networks.
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Communication.
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Management and leadership.
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Career and personal growth in structural engineering.
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Navigating career changes and achieving aspirations.
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Helping Chartered Members - MIStructE - become Fellows.
Join Elevate
Mentee: Register your interest here.
Mentor: You will play a vital role in shaping the future of structural engineering by working with mentees on their goals and aspirations. Experienced, professionally qualified, members interested in being an Elevate mentor can register here.
We will then match mentor with mentee, and will be in touch about next steps. If you are interested, please read our Elevate handbook.
This form is not for those looking for IPD / PRI. Please refer to our Professional Mentoring Handbook for information.
Mentoring for membership and IPD
A mentor can guide you towards , , and as part of your , helping you develop and meet the core objectives related to each grade of membership.
A mentor should be a professionally qualified member or someone of equivalent standing – this is especially important for routes to membership and IPD. Mentors play an important role in ensuring that candidates have demonstrated the required competence to pass the when they apply. Mentors should assist and guide candidates in satisfying the IPD requirements in preparation for the PRI.
If you are interested, please read our Professional Mentoring handbook which explains how mentoring for membership and IPD operates.
Mentees can download this to share with the senior engineers you have agreed to work with as mentors to help you through your journey to professional registration.
Potential mentors and mentees
Please also email , so that we can log your name as we look to develop IPD mentoring in the future.