About the Awards

Eligibility

Eligibility for the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence includes academic, TAFE teaching, and general/professional staff on continuing or fixed-term contracts. Fixed-term staff must have been in their position for at least six months and continue for at least one year after the closing date. Teams can be nominated, but previous award recipients cannot be nominated in the same category the following year. Staff can only be nominated in one category per year and cannot be both nominator and nominee. Team members who haven’t met the six-month requirement but have significantly contributed can be recognised with an award certificate.

Categories

The 11 categories are as follows:

  • Living our values
  • Leadership and transformational change
  • Inclusion
  • Excellence in innovation
  • Excellence in community engagement and impact
  • Research excellence
  • Excellence in research partnerships and impact
  • Excellence in industry engagement and impact
  • Vocational teaching excellence
  • Enhancing the student experience
  • Excellence in delivering the Co-op model

Nominations

The Vice-Chancellor will call for nominations each year.

Leaders across the University should encourage their teams to nominate staff to ensure that at least one nomination per area or institute is received.

Staff members who are employed on continuing or fixed-term appointments may nominate other staff members.  Self-nomination is not permitted.

This year nominations close Friday, 25 October 2024 at 5:00 pm.

For full details, download the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence Guidelines (PDF, 179kb).

Award and recipient(s)

There will be one award per category each year.

The Vice-Chancellor will determine the monetary amount for each award category at the start of the financial year. The amount will be $2,000 per category unless the Vice-Chancellor determines otherwise.

Each recipient will receive an award citation that will be presented by the Vice-Chancellor.

Recipient(s) may use the funds for personal use, or work-related business purposes, which can include professional development or as a donation to the Federation Foundation scholarships fund. Where a team receives an award, they can determine how the funds will be distributed and expended.

For full details, download the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence Guidelines (PDF, 179kb).

Selection

The Vice-Chancellor will appoint a selection panel.

The selection plan will evaluate all nominees per category against the selection criteria based on the completed nomination form.

The selection panel will provide the Vice-Chancellor with its recommendations within 10 working days after it has concluded its evaluation.

Further information

For further information, please contact People Consultancy on od@federation.edu.au.

How to apply