Enhancing Community: Support Staff Award

UCalgary Nursing strives to provide an engaged and supportive working and learning environment, committed to authenticity, inclusivity, compassion and respect.  This award recognizes a staff member who takes initiative, demonstrates resilience, navigates change and engages their colleagues and community.

In line with UCalgary’s strategic plan, Ahead of Tomorrow, this staff member operates ‘ahead of tomorrow’ to help unlock the potential of our students, faculty and staff. This means matching the university’s entrepreneurial outlook by working nimbly and finding ways to service and support needs efficiently.

Nomination Process

Nominations are welcomed from anyone within or outside the Faculty of Nursing. The nominee must agree to the nomination. A completed nomination form must be accompanied by one signed letter of reference and speak directly to the criteria. The letter may be from the nominator.

Only completed nominations will be accepted (see the nomination form for details). If your nomination is missing any of the supporting documentation, it will be returned to you for completion if there is time.

Use Criteria with Examples

We strongly encourage you to explicitly incorporate the criteria of the specific award with clear examples for each criteria when writing your letter of nomination or support. This not only assists you, as nominator, to highlight the important and relevant attributes of your nominee, it gives the selection committee very clear details about the qualifications of the candidate with examples of their achievements and enhances the overall nomination.

Please Reference the Correct Award and Category

We know many people are asked to submit letters of support for deserving nominees for a UCalgary Nursing Spark Award. We also recognize that many of you write multiple letters for the same person for different awards. We, therefore, ask you to please carefully proofread your letter so that you are making reference to supporting your nominee for a Spark Award ONLY (not a U Make a Difference, a President’s Award for Excellence in Student Leadership, etc).

While referring to another award may not disqualify your candidate, it does not reflect positively on your commitment to the nomination for a UCalgary Nursing Spark Award.

• Identifies and works with the appropriate tools and services to accomplish the tasks necessary to get the job done to the benefit of the team and/or works toward solutions to find the appropriate tools and services
• Empowers our community to do the same by assisting students and co-workers
• Shows flexibility in attitude and toward processes and services required to achieve UCalgary Nursing goals
• Displays authenticity, inclusivity, compassion and respect toward all; is attentive to their own wellbeing and mental health as well as that of others