Becoming a Certified Impact Rater: All you need to know

Learn how to assess the social & environmental impacts of major companies worldwide. Earn a free digital certificate while contributing to shaping companies' impact scores to hold them accountable for their actions.

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Why become an Impact Rater?

Educate

Educate yourself on the latest in sustainability news by rating articles about the impact of businesses. Learn how to rate their environmental and social impact and be part of holding businesses to account.

Career Focus

Acquire tangible skills in measuring the scope, scale, and irremediability of impact. This is a useful Certification if you are interested in a career in sustainability as you will broaden your understanding of how businesses impact the world.

Earn a Certification

Once you have become a Certified Impact Rater by completing the rating assignments, you'll receive a personalised Certificate that you can display on LinkedIn or your CV to demonstrate your new skills.

Overview of the Impact Rater Training Process

  • Pass the rater's entry exam (score =<70), which you can find on your profile💯

  • We certify raters who meet the criteria by email, every Friday afternoon CET
  • Join the Rater’s collective on Slack to connect with our impact community of +50k people from all around the world, get the latest updates, and receive support 🌍

  • Once you're certified, keep assessing companies' impacts and earn SDG badges to showcase your expertise 🎖

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What to expect - Your Impaakt Rater Journey

1. Join the Impact Rater training webinar

Join a 1 hour pre-recorded interactive webinar led by Bertrand Gacon, Impaakt's CEO & Co-Founder. Sign up here.

In this webinar, you will notably:

  • Get a better understanding of the role businesses play in tackling social and environmental challenges.

  • Discover Impaakt’s unique methodology to measure the social and environmental impacts of businesses worldwide.

  • Learn how to accurately rate the impacts of major companies on people and the planet, holding them accountable for their actions.

Once you’ve watched the webinar, you’ll get access to the slides and the webinar recording directly on your profile.

2. Pass the Impact Rater exam

Before you can start rating articles, you will have to take an exam to assess whether you have understood our guidelines on how to rate impact.

Before taking the exam, we recommend reviewing the resources below to ensure you are ready to pass. You have 3 tries to get a score of at least 70/100. For your information, you can pass the exam whenever it suits you best, there is no time constraint.

To access your exam, go to your profile, select "My Training Space" and click on "Take the Rater's entry exam". In case you can't find it, go to "My Training Space" section, scroll down to "Already taking a training? Let us know by clicking here", click "here", then select "Impact Rater Training" and "Add training".

3. Read and rate 30 impact analyses

Once you've passed the exam, you are required to complete at least 30 ratings of impact analyses published on our platform.

You can choose which articles to rate by the SDG, topic, or company of your liking. We suggest you also take a look at our article feed.

You can take all the time you need, but we recommend completing the assignment within 2 weeks following the completion of your exam to ensure the quality of your ratings.

Please note that our team carefully checks the quality of your ratings before sending the certification.

4. Delivery of certification

Impaakt certifies qualifying raters every Friday afternoon CET.

Once you complete all the certification criteria, kindly wait until you receive an email from us, which will include your official Impact Rater Certificate.

5. What’s next?

Once you’ve become a certified Impact Rater, feel free to:

  • Join our impact community on Slack to connect with +50k fellow impact makers, take part in our initiatives, and receive ongoing support from the Impaakt team.

  • Keep rating impact analyses, and start earning SDG badges to showcase your expertise.

  • Invite your impact-driven friends to join the movement.

Testimonials

Read what now certified raters say about the Certified Impact Rater training program.

Kasamba Matekenya

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As a Sustainability Consultant and Climate Action Activist, Impaakt literally combines two of my favourite things! The Impact Rater training gave me great insights into holistic impact measurement. I can confidently say that my impact analysis skills now have a lot more depth. I highly recommend this training, from knowledge building to continued professional development, the benefits are innumerable.

Zainab Oladapo

1

As an SDGs advocate, the Impaakt program is really an eye-opener for me and a great learning platform that enables me to analyze sustainability reports from different companies across the globe and how their actions impact the environment globally. This program also helped me to make my impact and contribute my quota on how to measure up in achieving our common goals of the SDGs. Together we can achieve a sustainable future.

Dawit Leulseged

3

As an Architect, I have the duty and role to play in making a sustainable environment and a better future while making an impact in today's world.

The Impaakt certification program has helped me grasp a vast understanding of how I could impact the world by rating companies' impact.

During the certification program, I have received guidance and was asked why I gave that type of assessment compared to others.

Shirly Evangiline

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As a professional working in the mining sector, I was passionately inclined towards learning and developing my skills on sustainable technologies and practices. The flexible and self-paced training program from Impaakt helped me to better understand the SDGs and the impact we create on our planet. Also, earning a Certification by assessing articles from my peers gave me more insight and added dimensions to my perspective. This training program also encouraged me to start writing.

Kasamba Matekenya

2

As a Sustainability Consultant and Climate Action Activist, Impaakt literally combines two of my favourite things! The Impact Rater training gave me great insights into holistic impact measurement. I can confidently say that my impact analysis skills now have a lot more depth. I highly recommend this training, from knowledge building to continued professional development, the benefits are innumerable.

Zainab Oladapo

1

As an SDGs advocate, the Impaakt program is really an eye-opener for me and a great learning platform that enables me to analyze sustainability reports from different companies across the globe and how their actions impact the environment globally. This program also helped me to make my impact and contribute my quota on how to measure up in achieving our common goals of the SDGs. Together we can achieve a sustainable future.

Dawit Leulseged

3

As an Architect, I have the duty and role to play in making a sustainable environment and a better future while making an impact in today's world.

The Impaakt certification program has helped me grasp a vast understanding of how I could impact the world by rating companies' impact.

During the certification program, I have received guidance and was asked why I gave that type of assessment compared to others.

Shirly Evangiline

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As a professional working in the mining sector, I was passionately inclined towards learning and developing my skills on sustainable technologies and practices. The flexible and self-paced training program from Impaakt helped me to better understand the SDGs and the impact we create on our planet. Also, earning a Certification by assessing articles from my peers gave me more insight and added dimensions to my perspective. This training program also encouraged me to start writing.

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