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Objective

This award recognises a Young Planner who has made an outstanding contribution or achievement. The award recognises a Young Planner who represents balanced qualities in advocating for emerging planning professionals as well as high-quality planning outcomes in the workplace. This award recognises passion, integrity, involvement in the profession, achievements and ability to act as a role model rather than participating in “glossy” projects.

The individual shows strong promise and emerging capabilities in leadership, good emerging understanding of planning practice, innovation, enterprise and/or strategic thinking.

Eligibility

Nominees may be nominated by an employer, colleague or peer (“nominator”) by way of a single page submission addressing why the nominee should be considered for the award.

To be eligible for Young Planner of the Year, the nominee must be:

  • a current Associate or Full Member of the Planning Institute of Australia who is within their fifth year after graduation from the first education qualifications that entitled them to become eligible to be a Member; and
  • have been a member for a minimum of 6 months at the time of being nominated.

Nominees will be advised by ÂÜÀò°®Å¾Íø following the close of nominations and will be invited to provide their CV and a written response to questions (based on the selection criteria and provided by ÂÜÀò°®Å¾Íø) within seven days. Candidates who decline the nomination will be withdrawn from consideration.

Nominees should generally not nominate themselves and previous winners are ineligible for this award.

Selection Criteria

Nominations for Young Planner of the Year will be assessed against the following criteria:

  • Demonstrated planning skills and excellence in the professional workplace, i.e. innovation, strategic thinking, high quality of work, excellent emerging communication skills and a high capacity for problem solving.
  • An activity or project that furthers the practice of planning or improves planning processes and makes a valuable contribution to teamwork.
  • The individual’s commitment to continuing professional development and involvement with professional institutes, networks, events, outreach work or relevant voluntary activity.
  • The extent to which the individual serves as an advocate and role model for other emerging professionals in the industry or in the workplace; and
  • Contribution to the planning industry and demonstrated emerging leadership qualities.

Compulsory Materials

Written

All entries are to be in electronic format and must include, from the employer, colleague, or peer (“nominator”):

  • Nomination Statement which is a single page submission addressing why the nominee should be considered for the award.

ÂÜÀò°®Å¾Íø will then contact nominees who need to provide:

  • Their current CV
  • Written response to questions which will be provided by ÂÜÀò°®Å¾Íø.

Additional supplementary material may be submitted electronically where it is the subject of the nomination. Examples include: a book, PhD thesis, strategic plan, framework document. However, the judges will refer primarily to the Nomination Statement.

Images

At minimum, a high-quality headshot photo of the nominee is required for promotional purposes. If possible, providing four (4) more high quality images of the nominee is preferable, such as more headshots, photos of the nominee on site, or of the nominee with an example of their work or engaged in consultation, etc.

Image file names should succinctly describe the subject matter. For example ‘louise street piazza open day.jpg’ , not ‘IMG00023.jpg’

The basic minimum requirements for electronic images are:

  • File format: *.jpeg or *.png
  • Resolution: 300ppi;
  • Dimensions: ideally 1920px x 1080px
  • Size: 5MB max.
  • No special characters/symbols in file names (e.g. +!@)