2020 Data Insight And Innovations Award
Description
The Data Insights and Innovations Award honors a state workforce agency, or partnership involving a state workforce agency, for achievements related to labor market and workforce information.
Criteria (choose one as your primary focus)
- Capacity Building: demonstrates a record of building and supporting the capacity of its workforce and labor market information functions, using innovative staffing, resourcing, or other approaches, with a goal of deriving and applying insights from data to a broader range of operational and programmatic issues.
- High Impact Products and Services: demonstrates the development of WLMI products and services of high impact for a range of internal and external customers in the state or region.
- National Impact: demonstrates a commitment to sharing the insights of its staff and other resources, including exhibiting best practices that can be replicated, with impacts on other states and national policymakers or stakeholders.
Eligible Nominees
The State Agency or a partnership or initiative involving the State Agency 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(s), state administrator, labor market information director, state staff member(s), workforce partner, or advocacy group.
Nomination Requirements
- must be submitted by 5 pm EST, January 8th, 2020;
- provide a completed Award 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.
