Specialists of the Business Continuity Institute are entitled to use the designation SBCI.
Applicants must be specialist practitioners with at least 2 years full time experience in a business continuity management related profession and have good knowledge of some of the 10 BCI Certification Standards.
Applicants for Specialist who are not current BCI members need to complete a general application form and a professional application form which is scored assessed by a panel of the Membership Committee. Current BCI members who wish to upgrade to Specialist need to complete the professional application form.
Once forms have been scored assessed, applicants will be advised if they are considered to have the necessary experience to be offered an SBCI and to which Faculty they have been elected. In some cases applicants are offered Associate membership and invited to reapply when they have gained more experience.
The BCI has developed Faculties for the following specialist areas to which Specialist will be elected:
- Crisis and Emergency Management
- Human Resources
- Information Security
- Insurance
- Physical Protection and Security
- Property and Facilities Management
- PR and Media Management
- Risk Management
- Salvage and Restoration
- Technology Recovery
To join as a Specialist download the following document containing instructions and all necessary forms:
PDF version of application form
Microsoft Word version of application form.
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