Achieve an internationally recognised professional qualification
Accredited Partnership Brokers assist organisations, partners and other stakeholders in shaping and managing their partnerships in an informed, imaginative and courageous way. This role is increasingly seen as central to ensuring multi-stakeholder collaboration can become effective, sustainable, rigorous and, ultimately, transformative.
Accredited Partnership Brokers help to set high standards for collaborating in a systematic, principled and ethical way.
Achieving this qualification brings with it the level of confidence and quiet authority necessary to: enable different (sometimes divergent) players to work well together; deepen engagement so it optimises potential and enables partners to challenge and change systems and behaviours that hold back necessary change.
Pathways to Accreditation
There are three pathways on to the PBA’s Accreditation Programme to ensure the best fit for those from diverse experiences, backgrounds, sectors and contexts. These include:
- Partnership Brokers Training Accreditation Pathway – for those who have completed a PBT course and have been recommended for Accreditation by their trainers
- Tailored Accreditation Pathway – for individuals those who have not completed a PBT but who have a track record in a partnership brokering or similar role – whether at local, national or international levels
- Collective Accreditation Pathway – where the Accreditation programme is designed for groups of suitably qualified / experienced practitioners working within the same organisation, partnership, network or other form of emerging collaboration project.
The Partnership Brokers Association’s different pathways to Accreditation are designed to support the continuous professional development of partnership brokers everywhere. Whether you are a recent graduate from a PBA training programme, a highly experienced international or local practitioner or part of a larger organisation or a partnership requiring multiple partnership brokers, there is a pathway for you.
What does Accreditation offer?
Achieving accreditation enables you to join a worldwide group of experienced partnership brokers who recognise that, whilst every context is unique, there are universal principles and approaches that underpin collaborative activities that are genuinely inclusive and mutually beneficial.
Accreditation gives you the courage and confidence to work with a greater degree of impact and influence.
The Ethical Commitments of Partnership Brokering which are the backbone of the Accreditation journey provide a solid foundation for furture professional practice.
Beyond Accreditation, we are working to strengthen the growing number of Accredited Partnership Brokers (APBs) across the globe by facilitating connections, peer support and learning.
Four features of the Accreditation Programme
The Accreditation Programme has four strong features:
- Responsiveness to each mentee’s specific context and professional priorities.
- Strong emphasis on the value of reflective practice where mentees are invited to de-layer their day-to-day partnership brokering experiences and to give themselves space for insights to emerge
- Central 1-2-1 working relationship with an assigned mentor who is selected from an international pool of 50+ highly experienced partnership brokers. Mentors are there to support learning and to encourage mentees to take increasingly brave steps in challenging poor partnership practice and helping partners to push boundaries.
- Comprehensive and rigorous assessment process overseen by the PBA’s Accreditation Panel, to ensure that every decision to award Accreditation (or not) is fully considered, appropriate and fair.
Together, these ensure that all those achieving the professional qualification – whichever pathway they have taken – are equally well-equipped to contribute effectively to partnerships and other forms of collaborative initiatives. Whatever the pathway, the PBA remains committed to maintaining high standards and to fostering innovation in the field of partnership brokering.
Accredited Partnership Brokers are able to:
- Put APB (short for ‘Accredited Partnership Broker’) as a post-nominal after your name.
- Put this logo in your CV or email signature alongside any other professional credentials:
- Join the Community of Practice for Accredited Partnership Brokers.
- Become a PBA Associate – which entitles you to help shape and build the organisation and to be eligible to apply to become an authorised PBA trainer, mentor or service provider.
For more information download the appropriate information leaflet which provides you with full details of that pathway onto the Accreditation programme including criteria for acceptance, timings and the costs involved:
- PBT Graduates pathway information leaflet and application form.
- Tailored Accreditation pathway information leaflet and application form.
- Collective pathway information leaflet.
The Accreditation Team:
- Accreditation Coordinator – Marta Serafin: accreditation@partnershipbrokers.org
Programme administrator, information officer and first point of contact for enquiries. - Accreditation Animator – Prajwal Shahi: prajwal@partnershipbrokers.org
Builds and maintains key relationships, assists in ensuring the programme is inclusive and collates / disseminates learning. - Accreditation Lead – Ros Tennyson: ros@partnershipbrokers.org
Responsible for strategic developments, programme sustainability, financial oversight and key decisions.
If you want to have a conversation with someone from the Accreditation team about whether the programme is right for you – contact the Accreditation Coordinator on accreditation@partnershipbrokers.org
