Welcome to the National Training Awards - The UK's premier award for training and development

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days to 23 April 2010 entry deadline

Judges

1: The National Training Award Judge: Role specification

1.1 Overview:

National Training Awards (NTA)

National Training Awards celebrate and share excellence in practice. Identifying how employers, providers, partnerships and individuals have applied learning and development in order to create impact and achieve success. Winners will share practice and inspire others to invest in learning and development as a route to being world class.

The Strategic Aims of NTA are:

To promote the development of skills as a key lever for the UK and global economy
To raise standards and improve organisational and individual performance and productivity
To improve leadership understanding and skills to utilise the transformational potential of learning
To celebrate excellence in practice and use this to inspire others
To recognise and promote learning and development that is demand-led and meeting the needs of the business, employers and individuals.

1.2 Core Description of the Judges Role

National Training Awards are awarded via a rigorous and fair assessment and judging process. Through judgment and debate, judging panels are able to identify award winners as well as offer detailed feedback to entrants. The Judges are separated into regional judging panels and judge entries from within their geographical area.

Each individual Judge is required to read, analyse and score the entries allocated to them, the entries are judged against the NTA category scoring criteria. Then as part of the regional panels Judges are also required to debate the entries, conduct onsite visits, judge the winners and offer feedback on the entry. UK Skills value this voluntary role and endeavour to provide the support and reward at all stages of the process.

The overall aim of the NTA Judge is to apply their experience and knowledge, and work alongside other members of the panel to judge entries and make Awards both regionally and across the UK. Once appointed NTA Judges are invited to remain on a judging panel for up to two years.

1.3 The specific responsibilities of the Judge are:

to ensure up to date knowledge of NTA through attendance at the NTA briefing meetings and reference to the Judges handbook
to commit to the confidentiality requirements of UK Skills
to receive, read and analyse a maximum of 25 entries
to fully understand the NTA category criteria and use this with the scoring system for the entry
to review scores and ensure a personal consistency in this stage of the process
to ensure that scores are returned in accordance with the agreed timeline
attendance and participation at the 2 Regional panel meetings
to synthesise the information within an entry so as to engage in the debate at panels
to undertake a least 2 on-site visits for those entries being considered for an Award
if selected as the Lead Judge for the visit then to set up the visit and complete the on-site visit form again in accordance with the agreed timeline. (please note that for the first visit new Judges will be supported in this process)
to offer feedback for entrants through the panel debate and discussion process

2: The person specification

2.1 Skills & abilities:

the ability to apply good analytical skills
the ability to apply judging criteria
the ability to review personal scores and achieve consistency
organisational skills
listening skills
questioning skills
reviewing and reporting skills
be able to synthesise information as presented from a range of sources
the ability to offer constructive comments and ideas for the debate
the ability to develop and deliver constructive feedback

2.2 Knowledge & experience:

having worked at a strategic/operational level within an organisation
a good knowledge of what organisational and individual benefits look like
knowledge and experience of an education and/or training sector
knowledge and experience of training and development practice
previous experience of using criterion referenced judging processes

2.3 Character & personal qualities:

dependability & reliability
good personal organisation
ability to work with other members of the panel
can manage expectations
ability to work as part of a team
willing to listen to the debate and achieve consensus
have a sense of fairness

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If you would like to apply to become a Judge, please call
Joe O'Malley on 020 7429 2807 or email Joe.OMalley@ukskills.org.uk

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