Volunteer Opportunities

Call for Webinar Presenters
Call Out for Chief Examiners

Call for Webinar Presenters

In an effort to provide even more CPD opportunities for our members, ICSA is seeking individuals who may be interested in developing webinar sessions for ICSA. Those members that are interested are asked to contact David Miriguay, Director of Education at david@icsacanada.org or Christina Mash, ICSA Administrator at christina@icsacanada.org to discuss this opportunity further. You can also call the National office at 613-595-1151.

Please note: the time needed to develop the webinars can be used towards your CPD hour requirements.

Call Out for Chief Examiners

We are in the process of trying to create a pool of examiners and are in need of examiners for Applied Business Law for the 2012 fall session.

Click here for more information on each of this subject. The syllabuses have not yet been Canadianized and this would be an initial task we would ask the Chief Examiner to complete. We are also looking to provide student support materials through pre-recorded webinars which we would like a Chief Examiner to prepare. An honorarium would be available for the development of the webinars. 

Requirements:
Examiners must be subject matter experts – they will have degrees or other qualifications in the areas they examine, will teach that subject at a university, or may be doctoral students taking the subject.  While preference is given to Institute members (ACIS, FCIS), doctoral students or individuals not affiliated with ICSA are also acceptable.  We will need the proposed Examiner’s CV, as this must be provided to the International body (PSC) responsible for ensuring the quality of the qualifying scheme is maintained.

At the moment, we receive UK examinations and model solutions/marking schemes.  These are provided to the Examiners as password-protected Word files; this is to preserve exam security. From the point of view of adaptation, the exam will consist of three types of questions/answers:

• Those that require little, if any adaptation – questions in this category may need spelling changes, Canadian terminology (e.g. substituting “TSX-Venture” or “TSX” for “LSE”, or “AIM” or “Inc.” or “Ltd.” for “PLC”), or currency changes
• Those that require significant adaptation – questions/answers referencing UK laws or legal situations that are different in Canada than in the UK, or where the Canadian study guide offers different material than contained in the UK guide are examples of such questions
• Those that must be replaced – material not discussed in the Canadian study guides or questions/answers that are so different in Canada that adaptation is not possible

Examiners will need to identify the changes required for each question using track changes with Word.  Where a question is replaced, it should cover roughly the same subject area as the UK question to ensure balance.  For instance, a question that deals with shareholder rights should be replaced with another dealing with broadly the same topic.

Examiners receive $1,000 honorarium for each examination and marking scheme they modify.  Payment is made against an invoice from the Examiner.  Markers receive $20 for each script they mark; there is no additional payment for scripts that are reviewed.  In Canada, because of the small number of scripts we have, the Examiner is also the marker.

Those members interested in providing their services or have any further questions are asked to contact David Miriguay at david@icsacanada.org or at 613-595-1151 ext: 1.

Please note: the time spent as Chief Examiner can be used towards your CPD hour requirements