The President’s Award for Collaboration - Award Guidelines

Do you have an excellent colleague or work with an outstanding team that you would like to nominate?

The President’s Award for Excellence in Collaboration recognises an individual colleague or team who embodies the spirit of the Imperial community: one team working, planning, and delivering together towards our shared vision through effective networking, collaboration, and communication. This may include volunteering to assist with events, working on special projects, serving on committees, or programs outside of their normal work environment to deliver positive outcomes whilst demonstrating commitment to Imperials values and behaviours, Respect, Collaboration, Excellence, Integrity, and Innovation.

Eligibility Criteria

  • All staff are eligible to be nominated.
  • Nominations can be made by any Imperial staff member.
  • This award is open to individual and team
  • Self-nomination is not permitted for this award category.

 

The nomination must be completed by Friday 14 March 2025.

There is one individual and one team award available for this category, and the winning nominations will receive a prize of £250.

In addition, the overall winning nomination selected from the winners of the Leadership; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Collaboration and Sustainability categories will receive the President’s Medal for Excellence in Culture and Community and a prize of £1,500.  The Medal winner/s will be invited to attend the university’s graduation ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall to be presented with the Medal.

 

Nomination Information

You may nominate an individual, or a team to receive an award for Collaboration.  Please don’t feel constrained by these examples, but you might like to recognise staff and teams who:

  • Get involved in university wide activities and developments, either as an individual or a team, and often bring together different colleagues, students and/or external groups for the benefit of our community.
  • Take the time to listen and engage with others and to properly understand their needs and offer advice, encouragement, support and help to when needed.
  • Communicate regularly and effectively within, and across teams.
  • Support and promote staff wellbeing.

Entering the nomination (please additionally refer to the user guide document for the online awards system).  Please also note if you are accessing the system off-site, please make sure you are connected Zscaler and that the authenticate is turned on.

Important: The selection panel will ONLY draw on the evidence presented in the nomination form when making their decision, so please ensure a good case is presented for submission.

  • A single nomination form should be completed for individual nominations.
  • All nominations must be seconded before the Please refer to the online awards system user guide for more information.
  • Evidence should be provided for each of the award criteria, particularly how this extends beyond the expectations of the nominee’s job description. This should be written for a non-expert audience and specific examples given where
  • There is a strict 300-word limit for each free text
  • Attachments are permitted.

Questions to complete

  1. Is this an individual or a team nomination? If this is a team nomination, please include the name of the team and the names of each team member.  You will need to select one individual name for the purposes of completing the online nomination.
  2. Please describe your relationship to the nominee (i.e., colleague, peer, line manager) and how you became aware of their contributions to Collaboration.
  • Please describe what the nominee has done to merit the Collaboration Award and how they demonstrate the Imperial values and behaviours. Please reference the Imperial Values to provide evidence and to inspire your nomination.
  • Please describe the key benefits they have brought to all parties involved providing clear evidence of cross team collaboration.
  • Please add a further supporting statement in the nomination comments field.

Please be aware of the 4,000 character count in each free text section.