Enhancing Community: 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 non-academic staff member (AUPE/MAPS) who takes initiative, demonstrates resilience, navigates change and engages their colleagues and community. They must be support staff or research staff employed by the Faculty of Nursing.
In line with UCalgary Nursing's strategic plan, Toward Tomorrow, this staff member helps unlock the potential of our students, faculty, staff and community partners. This means adapting and aligning with the university’s entrepreneurial outlook by working nimbly and finding ways to 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.
Tips and Templates
Criteria
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, co-workers or research projects
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
Award Selection Process
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards Working Group will review all nominations and select the candidate they feel best exemplifies the criteria for the award. The number of nominations an individual receives may favourably impact the outcome. If the committee feels there is no clear choice, they may choose not to give an award in this category.
In the event a member of the committee is nominated for an award, the member will excuse himself/herself from deliberations for this award.
Additionally, no committee member may support a nomination with a letter of reference.
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards represent a shift from the previous internal awards programs - the Pursuit of Excellence and Covenant Health Faculty of Nursing Awards - and therefore previous recipients in similar categories may be nominated again.