Membership

Member Benefits

Key benefits of being a Member of the Australian Council of Professions include:
– Participation in the national Alliance of Professional Associations
– Early and easy access and input to government policy-making
– Joint ‘profession-neutral’ representation of interests to governments
– Joint promotion of the professions and professionalism to the community
– Joint support of Australia’s economic, social and environmental well‐being
– Networking and sharing of information, knowledge and experience

One of our strengths is our ability to bring together our member organisations to exchange ideas, share experiences and work collaboratively to progress shared interests and objectives. Recent examples are:

• Chief Professionalist Round Table13 May 2021
• Micro-Credential Round Table16 April 2021
• Sydney Uni Researches Professional Ethics16 April 2021
• Emerging Professions Round-Table11 December 2020
• Future Pathways to Professional Standing Round-Table28 October 2020
• ACoP implements Office of the CEO17 August 2020
• ACoP joins Asia-Pacific Federation of Associations2 July 2020

These joint activities and projects make ACoP membership influential in informing and shaping the national discourse and policy development on matters affecting the Professions, in particular Education, Accreditation and Employability, Professionalism and Ethics as well as Diversity, Culture and Inclusion.

The activities and projects of the Australian Council of Professions (ACoP) are independently funded and supported by its Member Organisations.

Becoming a Member

To participate in and benefit from our activities and projects, you can become a member of the Australian Council of Professions (ACoP) if you are either a Professional Association established in Australia to represent a profession and/or ensure its quality or if you are a Supporting Organisation that supports professionalism and our vision, mission and constitutional objects.

The annual membership fees have regard to the circumstances of each member organisation: fees for Professional Associations are mainly based on the number of professionals they represent; Supporting Organisation fees are mainly based on the number of staff and/or revenue.

The following organisations have recently joined us:

• Financial Planning Professionals join ACoP9 March 2021
• Public Works Engineering Professionals join ACoP3 March 2021
• Institute of Internal Auditors joins ACoP3 March 2021
• Global Leader in English Language Teaching QA joins ACoP15 December 2020
• Chartered Accountants ANZ join Council of Professions19 November 2020
• Geoscience Professionals join Council of Professions29 October 2020

To further explore options of ACoP Membership, please contact us on 1300 664 587 or CEO@Professions.org.au.
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Member Organisations

* Supporting organisation without voting rights.