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Charter of the Sopheria Global Certification Board (SGCB)

Sopheria Global Institute of Technology (SGIT) Scientia. Integritas. Futurum.

1. Purpose of the Charter

This Charter establishes the Sopheria Global Certification Board (SGCB), the governance body for the certifications of the Sopheria Global Institute of Technology (SGIT). It defines the Board's mission, independence, composition, operating rules and control mechanisms. It is binding on all Board members, its committees, its assessors and any person involved in the certification process.

2. Mission

The mission of the SGCB is to govern, grant and audit SGIT's professional certifications in the field of artificial intelligence, in accordance with the Sopheria Qualification Framework (SQF), a framework of levels ranging from 100 (Foundation) to 500 (Executive).

To that end, the SGCB:

1. defines and maintains the competency frameworks (certification schemes) for each certification in the official catalog, including the flagship certification CASD™ (Certified AI Solutions Developer · Claude Code, SQF 300 Professional);
2. designs, validates and evolves the examinations using documented psychometric methods;
3. grants certifications to candidates who have met the assessment requirements, and maintains the official register thereof;
4. safeguards the integrity of the certification system: examination proctoring, fraud prevention, disciplinary action and, where warranted, certification revocation;
5. adjudicates appeals and complaints from candidates and certified individuals;
6. leads the quality roadmap of the certification system, designed in alignment with the requirements of the ISO/IEC 17024 standard for bodies certifying persons. The SGCB claims no external accreditation until such accreditation has been formally obtained.

2.1 Position with Respect to Third-Party Technologies

Certain SGCB certifications relate to third-party technologies, notably Claude, a trademark of Anthropic. The SGCB is an independent body, not affiliated with Anthropic; its certifications constitute neither a partnership, nor an endorsement, nor an accreditation on the part of the vendors concerned.

3. Independence from the Sopheria Global Academy (SGA)

3.1 Principle of Separation Between Training and Certification

SGIT applies a strict separation between training activities, entrusted to the Sopheria Global Academy (SGA), and certification activities, entrusted to the SGCB. This principle underpins the impartiality of the certification system:

• the SGA trains, the SGCB certifies — neither entity exercises the prerogatives of the other;
• completing an SGA training program is never a condition of access to SGCB examinations, and confers no advantage in the assessment;
• passing an SGCB examination depends exclusively on the candidate's performance as measured against the published competency framework.

3.2 Operational Safeguards

1. Separation of persons. For any given certification, no individual may both design or deliver an SGA preparatory training program and design examination items, score assessments or rule on certification decisions at the SGCB.
2. Separation of information. Item banks, scoring rubrics and examination data are inaccessible to SGA personnel. Only the public competency frameworks and candidate guides are shared.
3. Budgetary and reporting-line separation. The SGCB has its own budget, set by SGIT; its members report in no manner whatsoever to SGA management, and their remuneration is independent of the commercial results of the training business.
4. Commercial neutrality. Certification decisions are subject to no volume, revenue or pass-rate targets.

3.3 Reciprocal Commitment

The SGA formalizes, in its own charter (document SGA-GOV-001), a commitment of non-interference in SGCB examinations. Any attempted influence is reported to the SGCB Ethics and Discipline Committee.

4. Composition of the Board

4.1 Structure

The SGCB is composed of:

• a Chair of the Board;
• six to ten Commissioners, selected for their expertise in artificial intelligence, assessment and psychometrics, ethics, law or governance, and fairly representing the interested parties (practitioners, employers, academia, certified individuals);
• a Board Secretariat, without voting rights, responsible for administration.

4.2 Standing Committees

The Board is supported by three standing committees, each chaired by a Commissioner:

Members of the Appeals Committee may not serve concurrently on the Ethics and Discipline Committee.

4.3 Appointment

The Chair and the Commissioners are appointed by SGIT's governing body upon the proposal of a nomination committee, after verification of competencies and prior declaration of interests. No member of SGA management or of the SGA instructor team may be appointed to the Board.

5. Terms of Office

1. The Chair is appointed for a term of four years, renewable once.
2. Commissioners are appointed for a term of three years, renewable twice. Renewals are staggered to ensure the Board's continuity.
3. A term of office ends upon expiry, resignation, lasting incapacity, or removal for serious breach of this Charter, pronounced by SGIT's governing body after consultation of the Ethics and Discipline Committee.
4. Any departing member remains bound by the confidentiality of the Board's proceedings without limitation of time.

6. Conflicts of Interest

1. Declaration. Each member of the Board and of its committees, and each assessor, submits upon appointment, and annually thereafter, a declaration of interests covering their financial, professional, family and commercial ties, including any tie to the SGA, to competing training providers or to vendors of certified technologies (notably Anthropic).
2. Recusal. Any member in a situation of actual, potential or apparent conflict of interest on a matter recuses themselves: they take part in neither the deliberations nor the vote, and this is recorded in the minutes.
3. Prohibitions. All members are prohibited from: preparing candidates for SGCB examinations; disclosing the content of item banks; accepting any benefit connected with a certification decision; exploiting their position for commercial purposes.
4. Register. The Secretariat maintains a register of declarations and recusals, reviewed each year by the Ethics and Discipline Committee.
5. Breaches. Any breach exposes its author to the sanctions provided for by the Ethics and Discipline Committee, up to and including removal from office.

7. Decision-Making Process

1. Convening. The Board meets at least four times per year upon convocation by the Chair, and extraordinarily at the request of one third of the Commissioners.
2. Quorum. The Board validly deliberates if a majority of its voting members is present.
3. Voting. Decisions are taken by a simple majority of the members present; the Chair holds the casting vote in the event of a tie. A two-thirds majority is required for: the adoption or amendment of this Charter, the addition of a certification to or its withdrawal from the catalog, the modification of passing standards, and the revocation of a certification held by a certified individual.
4. Traceability. Each decision is recorded in reasoned minutes, signed by the Chair and archived by the Secretariat. Decisions relating to competency frameworks and examination rules are published.
5. Delegation. The Board may delegate case preparation to the standing committees; decisions involving the granting, suspension or revocation of a certification remain within the exclusive competence of the Board or of the formally empowered committee.
6. Individual certification decisions. Certification is granted to a candidate on the basis of validated results, under a standardized procedure that excludes any discretionary judgment. No one takes part in a decision concerning a candidate whom they have trained or employed, or with whom they have a personal relationship.

8. Revision of Competency Frameworks

1. Each certification competency framework is fully revised every 18 months by the Competency Frameworks and Psychometrics Committee. This cadence ensures that certifications keep pace with the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence technologies and practices.
2. The revision comprises: a gap analysis against the state of the art and professional practice; consultation of a panel of practitioners, employers and certified individuals; psychometric analysis of past sessions; and updating of the assessment objectives, of the domain weightings and, where necessary, of the item banks and passing standards.
3. Any major revision is adopted by the Board and published with a minimum notice period of 90 days before it applies to examinations, together with a transition policy for enrolled candidates.
4. An early revision may be triggered outside the regular cycle in the event of a major technological development, a compromise of an item bank's integrity, or a significant psychometric anomaly.
5. The revision schedule for each certification in the catalog (AIFA™, AIPE™, AIDA™, AIPM™, CASD™, AAISE™, AIME™, RAISE™, CASA™, AILE™) is published by the Secretariat.

9. Integrity, Confidentiality and Audit

1. Board members and any person accessing examination materials sign a confidentiality agreement.
2. The SGCB refrains from any communication suggesting that an external accreditation (notably ISO/IEC 17024) has been obtained for as long as it has not been; only formulations of the type "designed in alignment with the requirements of the ISO/IEC 17024 standard" or "accreditation roadmap" are permitted.
3. The certification system is subject to an annual internal audit (impartiality, examination security, handling of appeals), the conclusions of which are presented to the Board and to SGIT's governing body.

10. Revision of the Charter

This Charter is reviewed by the Board at least every 18 months, consistent with the revision cycle of the competency frameworks. Any amendment requires a two-thirds majority (Article 7.3) and the approval of SGIT's governing body.

Sopheria Global Certification Board — Sopheria Global Institute of Technology. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic. The SGCB is an independent body, not affiliated with Anthropic.