We’ll support you

throughout your quality

or auditing career

No application fee
If you apply for CQI or IRCA membership
within 12 weeks of completing your course
 About the CQI

The Chartered Quality Institute

is the global professional body for
quality and auditing professionals.

We own the International

Register of Certificated
Auditors, for management
systems auditors (IRCA).

We were set
up in 1919 after
World War One
by weapons
inspectors.

We also work with

international bodies
and business to
improve management
systems standards.

Today we represent 19,000 quality and

auditing professionals in over 130 countries.
 BENEFITS OF BEING A MEMBER

LEARN FROM OUR CONTENT AND RESOURCES

Explore our e-resources Get the latest quality news Learn from technical reports

Use our eLibrary 24/7 and Keep up to date with Quality Download copies of our reports
choose from 6,000 magazines, World magazine featuring on quality management topics
journals, newspapers and more. news, analysis and case studies. and ISO standards.

Use our quality management tool Develop your skills

Use our Competency Framework Choose from other CQI and
to manage your professional IRCA certified courses to
development and help you in your job. continue developing your skills.

BE RECOGNISED FOR YOUR SKILLS

Increase your salary
Improve your job prospects Enter our quality awards
Enter our
International Quality
Awards and you
could be recognised
for your excellence
in quality or auditing.

Increase your salary and Be valued by employers and

job satisfaction by being a improve your job prospects
CQI or IRCA member. as a CQI or IRCA member.

JOIN OUR DIVERSE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY

Become a mentor/mentee Connect with peers Expand your network

Be mentored by another Get to know other experts Connect with thousands

quality professional or in your field through member of professionals through
become a mentor yourself. groups and local networks. our global LinkedIn group.
 CQI member grades

You have a quality-related role and you conduct

audits, but you may not be a full-time auditor

AFFILIATE MEMBER PRACTITIONER PCQI CHARTERED MEMBER

You’re interested You could be a quality CQP MCQI
in quality or you’re professional, supply chain Your job focuses on quality
considering a career in manager, head of department management and you help your
quality management. or employed in a related role. company to save costs and cut waste.

IRCA member grades

For every stage in your auditing career

You’re new to You conduct You’re new to You conduct You’re You’re a senior
auditing and some internal auditing and full-system experienced in auditor and very
you’ve attended management you’ve attended audits as part doing full-system experienced in
an IRCA system audits an IRCA auditor of a team or by audits. You also conducting full-
internal auditor within your training course, yourself. Your lead teams system audits,
training course, company. but you haven’t audits may be that conduct but you may
but you haven’t conducted any internal, second- external audits. no longer audit
conducted any audits yet. party or third- regularly or lead
audits yet. party audits. a team.
 WHAT OUR MEMBERS SAY

“The CQI has added “It’s now easier than ever “It’s not always easy
great value, not only to before for individuals being a lead auditor
my individual career but to understand how to and I often need to earn
also to the organisation develop and maintain the trust and respect
I am part of. Being the professional of the people around
a chartered quality knowledge and me. Being a member of
professional has given skills necessary for the CQI has definitely
me the recognition that a successful career helped to bring out the
other sectors have.” in quality.” best version of myself.”
Rashad Issa, CQP MCQI Ian McCabe, CQP Arlene Ollano-Aguilar,
IRCA Lead Auditor

“CQI membership
“I became a CQI demonstrates to
member to further employers, customers
my knowledge and stakeholders that
and experience you possess the right
and to engage skills, knowledge and
with other quality understanding of the
professionals.” quality profession.”
Gemma Parnell, PCQI Tiago Geraldes-Rodrigues,
MEng, CQP MCQI
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