Category

Sponsor

Criteria

• Have identified an area of work / project that would require significant innovation to deliver success
• Have designed an innovative approach to tackling the issue
• Have delivered the innovation successfully and created growth
• Have achieved outstanding results for their organisation / cause as a result of having innovated, and can evidence that impact.

• How they have led effective campaigns and lobbied for maximum impact, influencing public policy, being a strong advocate of their cause.
• How they have incorporated and championed the Voice of the Service User, giving effect to that voice in influential arenas.
• How they have influenced the public conversation, identifying and seizing appropriate opportunities for influence.
• How they have understood the political context, influenced political representatives and how to tailor the organisation role and message to the political agenda and political leaders.

• Lead with an understanding of service users.
• Involve service users in building the organisation vision, in planning and in implementation of ideas.
• Create a culture of high performance, organises people to achieve results and celebrates success.
• Empowers team members to achieve common goals, perform in their roles, and demonstrate healthy team relationships.

• Evidence of having developed their organisational systems and governing processes in line with best practice
• The development of productive relationships between the organisation’s chief officer and the Board– this may include involving service users at board level.
• Provided strategic and shared leadership in moments of growth or crisis to protect the mission and purpose of the organisation.
• Shared leadership to create innovation or plan for the development of the organisation.

• How the individual or organisation has developed a partnership or made a contribution to benefit the work and causes of the third sector
• How the individual or organisation has understood the unique nature of the sector and worked in partnership informed by good practice such as The Concordat.
• The evidence that the partnership has benefited the community or other beneficiaries.

• A considerable commitment to good practice in third sector leadership
• An impressive track record of contribution to the community in Northern Ireland, including beneficiaries, stakeholders and government.
• A role model of leadership to all those new and emerging leaders in the sector.