The Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) assessor role is about supporting planners as they take the next step in their career and apply for Chartered membership. You will be assessing candidates’ written submissions. The assessor work is completed in the evenings and weekends, so it can fit around work and life commitments. To be an APC Assessor you need to have been a Chartered member for a minimum of three years.
How to apply
Register your interest if you would like to becoming a new Assessor.
You can find out more about the different assessor roles available including role descriptions below:
Assessor handbook
You can find out what's required in assessing all routes to Chartered membership in our Assessor Handbook.
The handbook contains information on:
- the details of the various stakeholders involved;
- the practicalities of the assessment process and annual schedule;
- advice on completing the Candidate Feedback Forms;
- the role of Reflective Journal or examples of professional work in the
assessment; - the key differences in assessing the different routes and classes; and
the assessor monitoring process and the restrictions on advising candidates
What to expect after you sign up as an APC assessor?
Complete the assessor recruitment survey
If you would like to be an APC assessor in 2025, please complete the assessor recruitment survey above. There is one for new assessors and one for existing assessors.
The assessor recruitment survey is open from Monday 7 October to Thursday 31 October 2024.
What you will receive from the RTPI before the end of the year
The Membership Team aims to send out acknowledgement emails to everyone who has completed the survey and has expressed an interest in assessing. You should receive an acknowledgement email two weeks after the survey closes (Friday 15 November).
Before the end of the year, we will send you a confirmation email confirming whether you have been selected to be an assessor for those applying to be a new assessor. If you are an existing assessor, returning to assessor again next year, we will also send you an email to confirm if you have been reappointed to assess in 2025.
Additionally, before the end of the year we will send you an email with a link to the updated Assessor Hub, so assessors can start to familiarize themselves with the relevant documentation including the Assessor Handbook and main guidance handbooks. We will also ask you to start to read the standardization submission and decide how you would assess it. There will be a discussion and feedback session about the marking of the standardisation submission at the training sessions.
Sign and return the Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Within the first two weeks of January you will be sent a Service Level Agreement to sign and return and you will be informed of who your co-assessor pair will be for 2025. The assessor pairings will change each year, so you can gain more experience by working with new assessors.
Attend assessor training
At the end of January and beginning of February, there will be the assessor training sessions, one online and one in-person in 2025. Attendance each year is mandatory. There will be an additional training session for new assessors only.
We hope you enjoy your work as an APC assessor and find it rewarding. Thank you for giving your time to help planners take an important step in their careers by applying for Chartered membership. If you have any questions about the assessor role, please feel free to contact the Membership Team at [email protected]
