Critical Skills  

VERY IMPORTANT TO READ 

1. Ensure you apply at the correct Professional Body related to your qualifications and profession.
2. The PM. Admin Membership is not eligible to apply for critical skills
3. Minimum Requirements to qualify for Critical Skills: NQF7 qualification and 3 years working experience in any industry within Program/Project Management 
4. Competency as follows: Proof of experience indicating the managing of projects. Include projects samples of your work reflecting your project management of a project from initiation to closeout.
5. Foreign qualifications must be verified through the SAQA process.
6. Local South African qualifications must be SAQA recognized at the required NQF Level
7. All the above requirements should be loaded on your CV to indicate your competency.
8. Prior to your critical skills application you first need to be an approved PMSA member
9. This is an online application therefore all information and documents should be completed and uploaded on the system. Emails with information will not be accepted.
10. With submission of your Designation Membership application, you will be issued with a once off application fee invoice, non-refundable
11. Your application will be sent to the grading committee for assessment when the application fee payment was allocated to your profile. This process takes about 3-4 weeks, depending on the completeness of your application.
12. You will be notified to pay the annual fee with your membership outcome from the grading committee
13. When the annual fee payment was allocated to your profile a system generated notification will be send to the email address registered on your profile
14. You can now apply for critical skills. This process takes about 3-4 weeks.
15. Note: The R3000.00 incl vat critical skills fee should only be paid after you received successful outcome of your PMSA membership and when your PMSA annual fees was paid, not before the time.
16. Documents - The PMSA Letter of good standing and Certificate will be sent together with the critical skills letter when feedback is received from the grading committee. Any change requests after the documents were provided will be additional cost and a 1-week waiting period.
17.  It is the responsibility of the member to regularly update their profile with accurate and current information, including required documents.