Associate Auditor

Associate Auditors gain access to the IRCA member benefits including our resource, networking and development platforms. Associate Auditor is our most popular grade for new members looking to start their IRCA membership journey and get their name on the IRCA register.

• Professional Recognition: Our IRCA Associate Auditors will have their name added to the IRCA register and receive the IRCA digital card which will add further recognition to them in the auditing field.
• Networking: We have thousands of members across our memberships and becoming an Associate Auditor will allow you to interact with our network through our 29 branches, 11 Special Interest Groups and our exclusive LinkedIn group.
• Resources: Our content materials including our Quality World articles and webinars online, in-depth ISO reports, and access to our E-library.
• Development tools: Our development tools including our CPD tool, mentoring platform, Profession map, Quality Careers hub, and Quality Learning hub.

For a more in-depth view of our benefits, please see our benefits page here.

These benefits will encourage and assist you to enhance your career and regrade to our auditing grades once you meet our auditing grade requirements.

You must have attended an IRCA certified foundation course AND passed an IRCA-certified Internal Auditor training course  

or 

Passed an IRCA certified Auditor/Lead Auditor course  

or  

Passed a relevant IRCA-certified auditor conversion course (if auditor/lead auditor in another scheme)  

To find IRCA-approved training courses, please use the search tool here.

The IRCA has 14 certification schemes covering a range of ISO standards including ISO9001, ISO45001 and ISO13485.

For a full list of certification schemes please click here.

You must have taken an IRCA-approved auditing course in the standard/s of the scheme/s you are applying for.

Regrading

You may regrade at anytime during your membership to an alternative IRCA grade. You will not need to pay an additional membership fee to regrade however a small regrade fee is due to process your application.

Fees

For all new membership applications, there are two fees to pay; a one-off application fee to process your application and an annual membership fee. The annual membership fee for IRCA covers a 12 month period (1 year). A membership fee will be due for each scheme you are registered on. For a link to the fees, please click here.