Mentoring Scheme

IIRSM’s mentoring scheme helps you be a mentor or mentee to develop your skills, grow your network and receive one-to-one support from a dedicated professional to enhance your career progression.  

IIRSM members can benefit from a brilliant digital platform with a wealth of tools to help you find a suitable mentoring match, manage your mentoring relationships, schedule meetings and track goals, whether you’re a mentor or mentee.

You must be an IIRSM member to be eligible for the Mentoring Scheme.  In order to access the exclusive registration page you must be logged in to the website.  

As part of the process you are asked to provide some information about your experience and what are you are looking to achieve through participation in the scheme, whether as a mentor or mentee.  

Whether you’re meeting face-to-face or online, our scheme has been developed to align with the IIRSM Risk Management and Leadership Competency Framework. The framework helps you identify any knowledge or skills gaps that the mentoring relationship can help you develop and enhance. 

We expect those participating in the scheme to be matched for an initial period of three months, however there are no set rules and the relationship can continue beyond this point if all is going well. The most important thing is that both parties agree and commit to the duration at the beginning of their relationship, and any changes to this later down the line are also mutually agreed. 

The frequency and length of each meeting is to be mutually agreed by the matched individuals. It will depend on what the mentee wants to achieve as well as the time both are able to commit. As a minimum, we would expect individuals to meet at least three times over the three-month period. Meetings can take place face-to-face or remotely, whichever works best for yourselves.

Our mentoring platform puts members in control of their mentoring journey, allowing you to explore opportunities and make connections that best suit your goals and interests.

On our mentoring platform, you can:

• Browse the directories to find available mentors or mentees

• Explore member profiles to understand experience, interests, and mentoring preferences

• Create a post introducing your mentoring needs

• Connect directly with other members to start conversations and build mentoring relationships that work for you

Rather than automated matching, the platform offers the flexibility to find and connect with someone who aligns with your professional goals, ambitions, and expectations.

Once you’ve found a suitable mentor or mentee, you can click on the ‘Message’ button to begin a conversation.

There are three mentoring programmes available:

Career Progression Mentoring

Career Progression Mentoring Programme Programme 2: Peer to Peer Mentoring Scheme Programme 3: Reverse Mentoring Scheme Join this scheme as a mentee if you are seeking support from someone who has a wealth of experience to learn from. Join this scheme as a mentor if you are an experienced professional who has a strong interest and enthusiasm for developing individuals earlier on in their career. 

Peer to Peer Mentoring

Peer to Peer mentoring is for you if you're looking to connect with an individual working at the same level as you but in a different function, company or industry to gain an alternative perspective on how to approach your work, to share your own experiences and support one another through similar challenges.

Reverse Mentoring

Reverse mentoring has, in recent years, become a popular approach to mentoring. The biggest difference is that reverse mentoring is where those who typically wouldn’t have considered themselves to be experienced enough to be a mentor are. The reverse mentor often mentors someone more senior to share challenges they’re facing, educating them and helping them to develop in a wider array of areas and focal points.