Certified Management Consultant

Check if you meet the pre-requisites as criteria for application. You need to:

• Be not below the age of 21 years
• Be not an undischarged bankrupt and has never been convicted in any Court of Law or detained under the provision of any written law
• Have a degree or equivalent professional qualification, or experience in lieu with at least 10 years in management function or at least 6 years in management consultancy
• Be actively engaged in management consultancy for at least 1,200 hours per annum for 3 consecutive years

Complete a detailed application form for Certified Membership setting out your experience as a management consultant including your personal details, qualifications and training, employment history, and areas of consulting specialisation, knowledge and expertise.  Include the following details and supporting documents:

• Statement by Proposer and Seconder (who must be Certified Members or Fellows who must have known the applicant for at least two years)
• Copies of education and professional qualification certificates
• Up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV) or resume
• Certificate of completion of IMCS Management Consulting Course or any other course approved by IMCS
• Written description of at least 3 management consultancy assignments from 3 different client organisations

Submit the application with the supporting documents by email to secretariat@imcsingapore.com and mail hard copies to:

Institute of Management Consultants (Singapore)
60 Paya Lebar Road, #07-15 Paya Lebar Square
Singapore 409051.

A complete submission will usually take 4 to 6 weeks from the time you submit your application. We may contact you via email for clarifications.

Your application will first be reviewed for completeness by the Institute secretariat.

If the documents submitted for application are incomplete, the Institute will request for appropriate information and/or document(s) from you.

If the application documents are in order, your application will be accepted into the certification process where your academic and professional qualifications will be verified against documentary evidence supplied.  This may include obtaining references from your clients stated in the application form.  Client referrals may be obtained through oral testimony by telephone or confidential meeting.

You will then be scheduled for an assessment interview conducted by the CMC Certification Board comprising of its Chair, an external qualified professional and a certified member of the institute. During the face-to-face meeting, you will be invited to present your three client assignments stated in your application form.  This will be followed by an interview based on the Certified Management Consultant Competence Framework in which Panel members will discuss with you on your experience, skills and knowledge and assess these against the Competence Framework Reference Statements.

Upon completion of the assessment, the Chair of the CMC Certification Board will submit its recommendation to the IMCS Council for approval.

After the interview you will either:

• receive a letter confirming that you are now a CMC; or
• receive a report setting out areas where require further evidence is required.

Re-Submission

• If you are assessed as not satisfying all the requirements for certification, you will be provided feedback on the improvements required and you will be invited to re-apply once these have been addressed.

For successful application, you will be issued an invoice for the application fee ($100), assessment fee ($300) and annual subscription ($270).

Within a few weeks of being accepted you will receive a CMC Certificate. You will be required to formally undertake to abide by IMCS Code of Professional Conduct. All CMCs follow the guidelines for use of the CMC certificate mark.

You are required to provide the following during the re-certification:

• Duly completed and signed CMC Renewal Form

• Completed and signed CMC Continuous Professional Development Form (CPD)
  1. CMCs should pursue a life-long learning process. They demonstrate their efforts to refresh or improve their skills set, making them a better consultant and increase their “value added” benefit the consultant brings to an engagement.
  2. To fulfil the CPD requirement, a CMC needs to maintain at least 90 CPD hours per triennium, of which at least 65 hours must be structured learning, with a minimum of 14 structured learning hours annually; and 25 hours of unstructured learning.
  3. If you are an RMC, you can submit the same CPD hours submitted for RMC

• Summary of management consulting experience
  1. CMCs should work in their profession. They should be consulting, either for profit or in a pro-bono setting. CMCs need to exercise their skills, work with clients and associates, and ensure they are improving their ability to communicate with and serve clients in a variety of settings.  What’s important is the time they spend working as a management consultant and developing their practice.
  2. As part of the fulfilment for re-certification, a CMC is required to provide records of his or her management consulting experience in the last 3 years.

• Payment of $50 for assessment fee (waived for now)

Complete and sign the CMC renewal form together with the supporting documents (completed and signed CPD form and summary of management consulting experience)

Submit the application latest one month before the due date via email to secretariat@imcsingapore.com . Alternatively, you may send the completed application to
Institute of Management Consultants (Singapore)
60 Paya Lebar Road, #07-15 Paya Lebar Square
Singapore 409051.

Your application will be reviewed by the Membership Committee for approval by the Council. We will contact you if your submission does not meet the recertification requirements.

For successful application, you will be issued an invoice of the membership renewal fee ($270 annually).