Award for Exceptional University Management

The nomination period will be January 2 - February 7, 2025 at 5 p.m. Check back for updates.

For questions, please contact Rebecca Daro.

Nominations of individuals are encouraged versus groups. Nominees must meet the following eligibility requirements:

• Have been a career UCSF employee for at least five years with a minimum 50% staff appointment at the time of nomination.
• Have either an S-series (S1-S2) or M-series (M1-M4) classification but do not hold the title of assistant or associate vice chancellor or equivalent VP or Executive VP title in UCSF Health.
• Have been vetted and endorsed by their supervisor and department head.
• Have not previously received the award.
• Have exhibited and sustained outstanding management performance as delineated below by the Selection Criteria.
• Note: Questions regarding classification and employment eligibility can be directed to your departmental personnel assistant or your Human Resources customer service representative.

Nominees will be evaluated per the following criteria:

• Creativity/Innovation: demonstrates ability to develop new methods and approaches resulting in positive change and new standards of performance
• Communication/Responsiveness: demonstrates commitment to timely, honest, thorough, and sensitive communication and profound capacity to respond to those managed and served as well as to resolve problems promptly and willingly
• Diversity/Inclusion: demonstrates commitment to advancing the spectrum of people and perspectives in order to provide a broadly diverse work environment and culture that is welcoming, inclusive, and inherently open to diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care
• Integrity/Accountability: demonstrates commitment to uphold the ethical standards of the University and to be unwaveringly fair, honest, transparent, and accountable in interactions with their staff and the campus community
• Performance/Engagement: demonstrates maximum levels of professional competency, reliability, and responsibility as well as career action, involvement, and commitment to advancing staff development, growth, and engagement
• Collaboration/Support: demonstrates exceptional ability to effectively and respectfully work within and between groups to manage all points of view toward achieving departmental goals and furthering UCSF priorities in a supportive environment

• Lead nominator who initiates, monitors, and completes the process. The online tool will route to emails of contributors provided by lead nominator.
• Endorsement by nominee’s supervisor and department head.
• One nomination letter* from the nominee’s supervisor citing specific examples of the nominee’s exceptional managerial performance as related to the Selection Criteria.
• Up to two support letters* citing examples of the nominee’s exceptional managerial performance as related to the Selection Criteria. Note: support letters may be endorsed by multiple supporters.

The nomination period has closed for 2024.

*Consider using UCSF’s internal AI tool Versa to improve your nomination letter.

• Learn more and sign up for the Versa waiting list at ai.ucsf.edu (MyAccess login required).
• Follow best practice by acknowledging where AI has been used.