Pinnacle Award for Workforce Development 2018
NOMINATION FORM
Description:
The Pinnacle Award for Workforce Development honors a State, or partnership involving a State, for an innovative workforce project, strategy or initiative that involves assisting certain or all customers with career services (career exploration and/or job search assistance) and/or the attainment of in-demand skills and credentials, and which results in significant contributions towards the achievement of opportunity for customers.
Criteria (choose one as primary):
- Innovative Set of Services: addresses customer goals and barriers, builds on partnerships, leverages funding, achieves successful outcomes;
- Innovative Service Delivery: uses customer-centered design, behavioral insights, process improvement strategies or other methods to review, plan, execute and evaluate processes/methods with improved service integration and service delivery, and better outcomes for customers; and
- National Impact: demonstrates a commitment to sharing its insights, including exhibiting evidence-based practices that can be replicated, with impacts on other states and national policymakers.
Eligible Nominees:
The State or a partnership or initiative involving the State must be named as the nominee of the award. The award may recognize specific individuals or agencies within the nomination, such as, but not limited to: the governor, elected official, state administrator, state equal opportunity officer or director, state staff member(s), business owner or representative, workforce partner, or advocacy group.
Nomination Requirements:
- Must be submitted by 5 pm EST, January 25th, 2019;
- provide a completed Award electronic nomination form;
- contain the answer to the questions listed on the nomination form within the prescribed word limit;
- include a statement of approval from the agency administrator; and,
- be the single nomination for that state in this category.
