| Core Competencies |
Core Competencies Details |
Green Belt relationship to Core Competencies |
| Building Relationships |
- Builds effective working relationships within own area and more broadly
- Encourages cooperation and collaboration in others
- Fosters partnerships to achieve results
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- Defines, builds, and manages effective working relationships with project sponsor, project team and stakeholders
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| Communicating Effectively |
- Engages in written and oral communication that is clear, unambiguous, transparent, and consistent with UCD’s Values
- Conveys and shares information and ideas with others, listens carefully, clarifies understanding and considers different viewpoints
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- Understands the importance of effective communication among team in managing organisational change, as well as communications planning
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| Leading People |
- Influences others in a positive way Aligns and builds effective teams both within School/Unit/College and across UCD
- Works effectively with senior management and with the University’s academic and business communities Mentors, motivates and guides others towards achievement of goals.
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- Builds teams and applies tools for effective teaming
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| Managing Change |
- Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change
- Invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with it
- Fosters an environment of innovation and change
- Ensures appropriate stakeholder involvement and engagement in change programmes/projects
- Ensures change is aligned with UCD’s core Values.
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- Recognises the key principles and tools for managing change in the organisation
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| Managing Stakeholders |
- Understands the importance of stakeholder engagement
- Responds to stakeholder needs and manages expectations
- Is sensitive to the different requirements within a diverse University setting
- Develops and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
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- Identifies the stakeholders and understands how the project will affect them in order to meet their needs
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| Planning & Organisation |
- Plans and organises own work effectively
- Sets clear priorities and ensures deadlines are met
- Organises activities, separates and combines tasks to deliver outputs according to a clear timeframe to realise
- School/Unit/College/University objectives
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- Plans, prioritises, and organises the project activities effectively
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| Project Management |
- Ensures project or programme goals, purpose, and criteria for success are clearly defined at the outset
- Clarifies related roles and responsibilities, deliverables, milestones
- Builds a detailed project plan and carefully monitors progress against it
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- Takes full responsibility for a project from initiation and planning to implementation and control, usually leading a small project team
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| Service Focus & Innovation |
- Understands and anticipates customer needs
- Acts to provide high-quality products and services to meet expectations of all internal and external stakeholders
- Generates a range of innovative ideas to make systems/procedures more customer friendly
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- Understands internal and external customer needs and applies technical and creative tools to problem solving
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| Taking Initiative |
- Makes suggestions for improvements in own work area
- Acts early to address and resolve problems and find solutions
- Is proactive in relation to own development, utilising feedback mechanisms
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- Discovers opportunity and finds a solution
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| Working Strategically |
- Develops a vision for the School/Unit/College/University and
translates this vision into action
- Aligns the School/Unit/College objectives with the University’s goals and objectives
- Communicates UCD’s vision in ways that gains the support of others
- Sees opportunities across different areas of activity and proactively connects the dots
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- Demonstrates the alignment of project objectives to local/University strategy
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