President’s Achievement Award

Recognizing the best of NAU

Each year, the president of Northern Arizona University awards special recognition to classified staff and service professionals to recognize outstanding performance.

Nomination criteria

• Promotion of strong positive interpersonal relationships and working with others to create a sense of true community in the workplace.
• Complete job mastery and performance that far exceeds Northern Arizona University expectations.
• Active support of and loyalty to Northern Arizona University, its mission, values, and goals.

Eligibility

• An employee must be in a full- or part-time regular position and in good standing with the university for three years, and have at least three years of performance appraisals.
• Recipients from previous years are eligible if it has been at least five years since they received the award.
• Prior nominees who were not selected to receive the award are eligible to be nominated again.

Nomination process

1. Nominators

• A Northern Arizona University employee can nominate another employee.
• Using the guidelines on the nomination form, the nominator should state the ways the individual nominee meets the criteria.
• Within the nomination form the nominator will be asked to provide the names and email addresses of a member of the nominees department as well as a cross-departmental contact who will be asked to fill out a reference survey based on their work with the nominee. The survey link will be sent to each reference once the nomination form is submitted. Both references must complete the survey for the nomination to be considered complete.
• The screening committee will accept only one completed nomination form per nominated employee.
• Any university employee may nominate candidates who meet the nomination criteria and eligibility listed above.

2. Deans, directors, and department heads

Deans, directors, and/or department heads review all nominations from their area.

3. Screening committee

The screening committee will comprise representatives of:

• The President’s Office
• Human Resources
• Two members of the Staff Advisory Council
• Winner from previous year

The screening committee will make recommendations to the president regarding employees they believe are most deserving of the award.

4. President

The president will review the recommendations of the screening committee and determine the final award recipients.

Winners

Award winners are announced in April. Recipients are awarded $2,000 and recognition by the president.