Enterprising Staff Stream
Acknowledging Our Enterprising Staff
The Enterprising Staff Awards are designed to celebrate the success of our UniSA academic and professional staff members who:
- Reflect enterprising thinking and a culturally enterprising mindset and perspective that ensures people are working for, not just in, UniSA
- Demonstrate the commitment to invest in our people through cultivating our core attributes
- Bring together professional and academic staff under a ‘one team’ approach in support of strategic ambitions and reignite collective achievements
Our Enterprising Staff Awards have been designed around our ‘putting people first’ approach and reflect the core themes that run throughout the Academic Enterprise Plan 2021-2025 which include; external partners and industry, service excellence, teamwork, core attributes, people and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Winners and nominees for Unstoppable Enterprising Staff Awards
Enterprise Engagement and Partnering
- Mr Sebastien Hebert ꓲ Enterprise Partnerships Unit
- Dr Melanie McDowall ꓲ UniSA STEM
- Miss Ashlee Munro ꓲ UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance
- Education Futures Stem Outreach Team ꓲ UniSA Education Futures
- Mathematics Clinic Team ꓲ UniSA STEM
- UniSA Business Work Integrated Learning Enterprising Student to Industry Engagement Team ꓲ UniSA Business
WINNER: UniSA Business Work Integrated Learning Enterprising Student to Industry Engagement Team | UniSA Business
Enterprising Culture
- Kylie Fogarty ꓲ UniSA Creative
- Nick Forster ꓲ UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance
- Kate Schkabaryn ꓲ UniSA Education Futures
WINNER: Kate Schkabaryn | UniSA Education Futures
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Sharron Jones ꓲ UniSA Education Futures
- Susannah Emery ꓲ UniSA Creative
- Sophie Murray ꓲ Enterprise Partnerships Unit
WINNER: Susannah Emery | UniSA Creative
One Team Achievement
- EDC Research Team ꓲ UniSA Education Futures
- UniSA Online Project Team ꓲ UniSA Online
- GEMBA Launch Team ꓲ UniSA Business
- The Enterprise Partnerships Unit ꓲ Enterprise Partnerships Unit
- UniSA Creative Open Day Team ꓲ UniSA Creative
- The STEM Academic Integrity Team ꓲ UniSA STEM
- The Blue Brick Road Team ꓲ UniSA Business
- The Pay UniSA Team | Finance
WINNER: The Enterprise Partnerships Unit | Enterprise Partnerships Unit
People First
- Mrs Kelly McFarlane ꓲ UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance
- Ms Julia Atterton | UniSA Creative
- Professor Amie Albrecht ꓲ UniSA Education Futures
- Culture Club Team within CMK ꓲ Communications and Marketing
WINNER: Mrs Kelly McFarlane | UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance
Service Excellence
- Mrs Rachael Cowland ꓲ Student and Academic Services
- Mr Jeff Neo ꓲ UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance
- Mrs Alison Nelligan ꓲ UniSA Education Futures
- Dr Rob Whait ꓲ UniSA Business
- Mr Adam Wolf ꓲ Communications and Marketing
- Regional Manager’s Team at Whyalla and Port Lincoln drive service culture to dizzying heights | Regional Hub: Whyalla
- The People Central Team | People Talent and Culture
- The ExpensemePRO Finance Team | Finance
WINNER: The People Central Team | People Talent and Culture
Unstoppable Enterprise Awards
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Enterprising Engagement and Partnering Award
Focus Area | External partners and industry
Award Criteria
- End user endorsed initiatives such as collaborative projects and constructive working partnerships
- Relevance and impact through research and/or work integrated learning innovation or excellence
- Translation of relationships with partners into outputs and outcomes for the benefit of students and the community
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Service Excellence Award
Focus Area | Excellence in Service Delivery
Award Criteria
- Efficiency and innovation in service delivery, administrative or governance process to the benefit of students, colleagues, or community
- Going above and beyond for the benefit of students, colleagues, or community
- Showcases UniSA's service excellence and solution-oriented culture
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One Team Achievement Award
Focus Area | Teamwork
Award Criteria
- Delivery of whole of enterprise business solution, project, collaboration, or initiative by a team using the ‘one team’ approach
- Measurable impact at a whole of enterprise level
- Demonstrating cross unit/cross functional collaboration
- Delivery of whole of enterprise business solution, project, collaboration, or initiative by a team using the ‘one team’ approach
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Enterprising Culture Award
Focus Area | Core Attributes
Award Criteria
- Embodying and exemplifying the UniSA Core Attributes
- Demonstrating and role modelling the core attributes of an enterprising workforce culture
- Contributing to how the UniSA Core attributes are embedded across UniSA
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People First Award
Focus Area | Enterprise 25: People
- Enhancing teamwork, providing inspiration, exemplifying best practice, mentorship, peer learning, skills development, professional development opportunities
- Initiatives that enable wellbeing and safety outcomes and demonstrate their priority at UniSA, contributing to physical and culturally safe environments for staff
- Fostering an enterprising culture by empowering staff with a focus on solutions and outcomes that prioritise the impact on people through how they are conceived and delivered
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award
Focus Area | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Award Criteria
- Promotion of inclusive language and encouragement of practices that are mutually respectful and meet the diverse needs of those we support
- Strategies to address the attraction, recruitment, retention and progression of students and staff from our prioritised groups
- Barriers to participation are removed and opportunities for success promoted
Further Details
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Eligibility
- Academic and Central Units are encouraged to submit applications for any of the award categories.
- Both academic (teaching-intensive, balanced or research-intensive) and professional staff that are either fixed term or continuing are eligible to apply.
- The team awards may comprise of academic and/or professional staff.
- Academic and Central Units are encouraged to submit applications for any of the award categories.
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Nomination
- Each Academic Unit or Central Unit may submit one nomination for each award category. Nominations must be endorsed by the most appropriate Executive Dean, Executive Director or equivalent. Note for team applications which contain members from multiple Academic or Central Units, endorsements should be sought from the most appropriate Executive Dean, Executive Director or equivalent.
- Endorsement of a nomination indicates that the individual or team meets the specific criteria of the award and demonstrates the essential characteristics that embody the University's enterprising culture, as outlined by the Core Attributes of UniSA Staff.
- Nominations must be lodged online, which contains a single set of selection criteria for all categories.
- Nominations must outline in 500 words or less why the individual or team meets the criteria and are for deserving of the award in each respective award category.
- Each Academic Unit or Central Unit may submit one nomination for each award category. Nominations must be endorsed by the most appropriate Executive Dean, Executive Director or equivalent. Note for team applications which contain members from multiple Academic or Central Units, endorsements should be sought from the most appropriate Executive Dean, Executive Director or equivalent.
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Recognition
Award recipients will be announced at an Unstoppable Awards Ceremony to be held on the 6th of December 2023, at 10:00am.
The first prize winners in each category of the Enterprising Staff Stream will receive $5,000 paid into their professional development account. For team awards, the total of $5,000 in prize funding will be distributed amongst UniSA team members equally.
In addition to the prize money, award winners will receive a certificate from the Executive Director: People, Talent and Culture and the announcement will be promoted via internal communications. Nominees and winners will also be published on the UniSA website.
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Judging
The selection panel will assess nominations and convene to confirm winners.
The selection panel chaired by the Executive Director: People, Talent and Culture, will comprise of various academic and professional staff members from across the UniSA community.
Key Dates for 2023
Enquiries
To learn more about being nominated by your local area, please contact your local Executive Services Team.
If you have any other enquiries regarding the Unstoppable Awards, please reach out to us at ptcbusinessservices@unisa.edu.au
Banner Image: Beyond the Horizon of a Nano-World by Dr Paul Joyce - Winner of the Research Category of the 2023 Images of Research and Teaching Competition
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