Continuing Professional Development Programme

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CPD is an important part of being a member of Survey and Spatial NZ. It is the way in which members can stay up-to-date with changes in the profession and it is also a yardstick by which the public can measure the competence and relevance of our members. This will become even more important in our new era of Certification as the public and Local Bodies will look to CPD compliance in the same way that the stakeholders in other professions look to the currency of the bona fides of those whose services they seek to engage.

CPD Requirements
From the 1 July 2023, the CPD requirements for Associate and Full (Voting) members are as follows.

CPD Point Allocations


Members can find more details here S+SNZ CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY.

Questions and Answers

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CPD is an important part of being a member of Survey and Spatial NZ. It is the way in which members can stay up-to-date with changes in the profession and it is also a yardstick by which the public can measure the competence and relevance of our members. This will become even more important in our new era of Certification as the public and Local Bodies will look to CPD compliance in the same way that the stakeholders in other professions look to the currency of the bona fides of those whose services they seek to engage.

Registered Professional Surveyors, Certified Members, Full (Voting), Associate , Graduate and Spatial members are required to complete CPD.

Registered Professional Surveyors and Certified Members will be expected to achieve a minimum of 30 points annually (some of these will relate to specific areas of competence in the profession in which you are engaged).
Full (Voting), Associate, and Spatial members will be expected to achieve a minimum of 25 points annually.
Graduate members will be expected to achieve a minimum of 20 points annually.

CPD points can be gained through both Structured and Unstructured learning.

Structured learning includes: Conferences, Congresses, Commissions and Conventions, Courses, Seminars, Workshops and Lectures, In- House Training, S+SNZ Meetings.

Unstructured learning includes: Research, Writing and Presentation of Papers for Publishing, Service on Technical and Practice Committees, S+SNZ Service, Individual Endeavour.

Full descriptions of learnings are available in the S+SNZ CPD Policy

S+SNZ offers a CPD programme of events along with the annual conference. Bookings can be made online under Upcoming Events (for events booked through the S+SNZ website, all CPD point allocations are automatically added to your record). We also provide a training-on-demand library of previous webinars

Essential professional training will also be offered as advised by Streams and Divisions along with Leadership training.

A dispensation can be applied if a member is unable to achieve the required points and has a valid reason. All dispensations will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

The CPD policy has a process for members who do not meet their obligations. The process provides a second chance for the individual to make good on their CPD obligations.

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