Professional Staff

The Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Awards for Professional Staff recognise individuals and teams who have made an outstanding contribution to Monash.

In 2020, the Awards event will be hosted online, with a certificate and trophy presentation to be held in 2021.

The awards give further recognition through a permanent citation on the Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Awards website.

Award categories

This year for these awards we have a particular focus on supporting workplace wellbeing and resilience. The awards recognise the contributions of professional staff who have excelled, going above and beyond the requirements of their roles and demonstrating significant and sustained achievement against one or more of the following criteria:

Improving service provision and/or contributing to development of streamlined University operations
Improving the staff/student experience through enhancing the work environment
Improving the student experience by enhancing the learning environment
Improving services to students and/or staff through collaboration across faculties/divisions

Eligibility for the Awards

Individual nominations

The awards are open to staff of Monash University (Australia and Malaysia). To be eligible for the Awards, nominees must:

Be professional staff (HEW 1-9): including full time, part-time, ongoing and fixed term
Demonstrate exceptional individual performance, sustained for a minimum period of one year
Be employed by Monash University for at least twelve months at the time of nomination
Not have been a recipient of this award in the last two years.

Team nominations

To be eligible for the award, nominated team members must be:

Professional staff (including trades and services staff)
Employed by Monash University at an Australian or Malaysian campus
Part of a team where at least 75 percent of members have been working at Monash for at least twelve months.

Nominee's contributions to Professional excellence must go beyond the requirements of their roles, demonstrating significant and sustained achievement in a given program or initiative

Staff who have been subject to formal discipline/performance management within the past 12 months are ineligible to receive an Excellence Award.

Selection criteria

Nominations will be assessed and ranked according to the following criteria:

Contribution to advancing workplace wellbeing and resilience
Contribution toward progressing the goals of Focus Monash: 2015-2020
Level of improved outcomes / impact for staff and/or students
Significant improvements implemented, resulting in efficiencies for the work unit &/or broader University
Long term sustainability of initiative and/or improvements.

Nominations

Individuals or teams are able to self nominate or be nominated by another member of the Monash community
The nomination must be supported by the individual or team's direct supervisor. Evidence should be provided in the nomination process
The Awards Selection Committee will seek further endorsement from nominee's Head of Unit/Dean/Executive Director.
The Awards Selection Committee for all Awards is final. Please note: feedback on nominations and selection processes will not be provided.

Individual nominations

An individual nomination should describe how the person contributed, how they increased value, had impact, innovated or created change. To be considered, this should be over and above the requirements of the individual’s substantive role.

Team nominations

Team nominations should describe the collective achievements of the group as well as briefly indicating the role of each team member in accomplishing the outcomes detailed. To be considered, this should be over and above the requirements of the team’s usual remit.

Nominations are now closed for 2020.

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Contact us

vc.excellenceawards@monash.edu