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This month’ s winners
The Campus Living Villages Award for excellence by a Young Person in Tertiary Education Management.
Winner: Suzanne Cronan Suzanne Cronan works for the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology Sydney, a research-only institute that selffunds through competitive externally funded, contracted research projects. Its mission is to create change for sustainable futures.
Suzanne has shown nearly nine years of achievement having been at the institute since the age of 22. During this time, Suzanne has developed her skills and knowledge to an outstanding extent, which has been recognised with a re-grading of her role on two separate occasions.
This award was given to Suzanne because she is an excellent example of the type of leadership potential which we are now seeing clearly in the sector. She was nominated for the way she exemplifies the possibilities for developing a career in tertiary education administration and management.
Suzanne has stepped up to higher level roles and on each occasion performed at an exceptional level.
In addition to the volume of work she has undertaken, stepping in on a number of occasions to fill roles as staff leave, the breadth of her work has been extraordinary, spanning HR, finance, post graduate student administration, office administration and infrastructure management.
Operationally, Suzanne developed new systems across a wide range of activity which ensured the ISF worked within its budget. She also contributed to strategic planning.
When someone performs at this level, they also contribute greatly to the culture of the institution.
What the judges said Suzanne was strongly recommended for her high levels of customer service and high levels of competence with complex and new systems in a rapidly changing environment.
In 2009 Suzanne received the UTS Career and Professional Development Award for high performance UTS professional staff. Only two other such awards were made that year.
The Winner of the Unijobs. com. au award for excellence in Human Resource Management.
Winner: Susan Hudson Susan Hudson and her colleagues in the Office of People and Culture were instrumental in implementing the key projects under the Our People Strategy and achieving improvements to workplace productivity at UWS.
These projects include implementation of significant organisational leadership initiatives, reward and recognition incentives and two major HR systems( e-recruitment, and performance and career planning).
A key achievement has been successfully winning two federal government Workplace Productivity Program grants for a total of $ 3.5 million.
As the Our People 2015 project manager, Susan had a key role in the formulation of the Our People 2015 Strategy, grant submission, and implementation of Our People 2015 projects, specifically relating to reward and recognition.
Top: Tom Gregg from Campus Living Villages( left) with winner Suzanne Cronan( centre) and Lucienne Tessens( right), chair of the western region of ATEM. Bottom: Unijobs’ Jarrod Kanizay( left), with Susan Hudson( centre) and Judy Szekeres, chair of the central region of ATEM.
What the judges said Susan’ s application revealed that she has successfully developed and implemented a number of strategic and innovative HR initiatives which have discernible and effective outcomes within her institution.
She has a very high level of personal credibility among those who work with and around her and is an outstanding example of a practitioner who has the personal and professional attributes to embed HR practice within an organisation. n
There is a little over a month to submit applications for the 2013 awards.
The full list of awards for nomination are:
• The L H Martin Institute award for excellence in Leadership
• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking award for excellence in Innovation
• The ResearchMaster award for excellence in Research Management
• The Higher Education Services award for excellence in Financial Management
• The Knowledge Partnership award for excellence in Marketing, Communication and Public Relations
• The CPSU / Professional Staff Union award for excellence in Community Engagement
• The HR Global Innovations award for excellence in Human Resource Management
• The Campus Living Villages award for excellence by a New Entrant in Tertiary Education Management
• Excellence in Student Administration and Customer Service
• The Cyon Computing Award for excellence in Information Technology Management
To submit your application, go to: www. atem. org. au / aboutus / best-practice-awards
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