YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO HELP SHAPE OUR FUTURE COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
On 1 June 2026 nominations opened for corporate members (MCInstCES and FCInstCES) to join the institution’s Council of Management. This is the most senior of the institution Committees with its structure and appointment processes set out in our royal charter and bylaws. The Council of Management oversees the delivery of the institution’s strategic plan as well as providing leadership, oversight and direction for this and future generations of civil engineering surveyors.
Being a member of the Council of Management is a unique opportunity for members to make a significant contribution to the fortunes of the institution. As a member you will actively contribute to our critically important work, provide oversight, demonstrate and champion our values and our vision and hold the CEO to account. Council is composed of the president, senior vice president, vice president, immediate past president and up to 14 elected members.
Members of council are trustees of CICES and come from commercial management and geospatial engineering disciplines. A trustee’s role is to bring their experience, knowledge and enthusiasm to influence our work, decide how best the institution is run and ensuring it is achieving its objectives. Members of council will serve a term of three years. This is a rewarding and responsible position, requiring members to play an active role in the governance of the institution, ensuring we remain relevant, act with integrity and are recognised as an organisation that those in the profession want to join.
The institution is recognised as the foremost professional institution for specialists employed in geospatial engineering and commercial management in the civil engineering industry and we consistently strive in everything we do to maintain and improve that position. We will continue our productive relationships with other organisations, including the continued development and promotion of the Chartered Civil Engineering Surveyor designation with RICS, enhancing and raising the profile of our education outreach programme and launch new competencies such as the recent digital engineer.
Our reputation is built around our three core values of competence and teamwork, openness, trust and reliability and honesty and integrity. Woven throughout all we do are the golden threads of equity, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and digitalisation.
If you have the skills and qualities required, your nomination must be supported by two current corporate members, acting as your proposer and seconder. If you genuinely have the time and wish to make a significant contribution to the work and effectiveness of the institution, please consider putting yourself forward for election.
Nominations close on 3 July 2026 and you will be reminded again via email and on our social media channels, so if you wish to discuss this opportunity in greater detail, please feel free to contact me.
Nomination timeline
01 JUN 2026: Nominations open
03 JUL 2026: Nominations close
20 JUL 2026: Ballot (if required) opens
17 AUG 2026: Ballot (if required) closes
02 SEP 2026: AGM (results announced)