Who can join
Membership is open to immigrant support professionals and agents of membership organisations are contributory.
Benefits of joining as a member
- Keep informed of news and critical information
- Receive education and training on best practice processes and skills
- Benchmark within the association community
- Network and engage with your peers and experts
- Develop your organisation and the services, products and events you provide your sector
- Enhance your career development
- Contribute to a vibrant community of association professionals
What you get in the membership
Access to / provided
- Resource Centre of Talks, Success stories, Expert briefings, Best Practice, Articles, Interviews, and other content
- ISSA news, Migrant Movement updates, Member news, and Partner updates
- Jobs board access & posting, CV and Interim services promotion
- Directories: Suppliers and Consultants
- Access to Online discussions forums
- Outlook Reports
- Discounts to ISSA events
- To Join any number of Specialist Groups
- Free entry into Association Awards (unlimited entries)
- eBulletin newsletter
- Association Insights magazine (3 per year)
- Badge for your emails and social media to affirm your professional status
- Discounts on various third-party events, training courses, and services
No-fee Membership
Membership of the ISSA is what we call ‘contributory’. Members commit to contributing to the ISSA and in return receive benefits and communications. Contribution of a small amount of time, with your advice and opinion, as well as profile information enables the ISSA to focus its work and create paid-for events, education, and products, as well as create a community of relevance.
Members’ commitments
Members agree to receive:
- eNewsletter, maximum every two weeks
- Product, Event, Services email every two weeks
- Resource Centre update email, every 4 month
- Association Insights magazine every 4 months (by email or post at the discretion of ISSA)
- Postal mailing, max. every 3 months
- A call to introduce events/services that match the members’ profile/interests (max. every 6 months)
Members agree to complete, every six months:
- One research call of 10-20 minutes with a member of the ISSA team
- One standard or benchmarking survey
- One submission of content to the Resource Library (for sharing with other members, eg. best practice documents, manuals, checklists, SOPs, guidelines, task lists, flowcharts, policies, Job role specifications)
- Update of their Personal and Organisation profile
- Feedback on services, content or events to enable the ISSA to improve its offering