Who do you think has shone brightly this year?
It’s time to nominate your colleagues for this year’s Our Stars Awards!
We want to hear more about the individuals and teams who’ve inspired you with their dedication, commitment or outstanding service.
These are your awards, and you’ve got a chance to nominate colleagues from across the public service who you think deserve to be recognised and celebrated for their outstanding contributions.
This includes colleagues working in the parishes and our third sector colleagues.
How to nominate
You can nominate by completing a short online form. You can put forward as many colleagues and teams as you like, and you can nominate them in more than one category.
The deadline for nominations is Friday, 9 June.
We’ll ask you to provide more detail about why you’re nominating your colleague(s) by answering a couple of key questions.
Who can nominate
Any Government of Jersey or States of Jersey employee can nominate.
Please note that we’ll send colleagues details of their nomination, but if you’d like to nominate someone anonymously, there’s an option on the form for you to let us know. However, when you nominate a colleague, we’ll still ask for your details as we’d like to invite you to the event if your nominee is an overall finalist.
Extracts from your nomination may be published. Please let us know if you have any concerns about this.
How nominations will be judged
As with last year there will be a two-stage judging process:
The first round
Departmental judging panels will review all nominations for colleagues in their department and pick their shortlist for each category. Following judging, there’ll be departmental celebration events to recognise all nominees.
The second round
All of the departmental shortlists will go forward for judging for the overall awards. Judging panels for this round will include chairs from each of the departmental judging panels, and they’ll decide the top three and five highly commended in each category.
We’ll announce the overall winners at a sparkling ceremony on Friday, 15 September.
Award categories
There are 11 award categories, plus an additional special ‘Our 2023 Superstar Award’.
Here are the award categories:
| Employee of the Year | This award recognises exceptional contributions from individuals who consistently deliver above and beyond.
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Who do you know that’s making a real difference to colleagues and service users every day through their contributions and by promoting positivity, work commitment and team spirit? |
| Team of the Year | This award recognises consistently outstanding teamwork that truly demonstrates that we’re better together. | Which teams have really impressed you by how they’ve pulled together and worked across government to deliver excellent services? |
| Manager of the Year | This award recognises exemplar managers who’ve consistently demonstrated vision, courage and a commitment to develop capability and support their team members to grow, realise their potential and be successful. | Which managers have impressed and inspired you? Who’s been outstanding in creating a successful environment where ideas and aspiration can thrive to deliver excellent services? |
| Customer Service Award | This award recognises those individuals or teams who’ve gone above and beyond in delivering excellent customer service to make the entire customer experience positive and memorable. | Who do you know who’s gone the extra mile to deliver excellent customer service? |
| Volunteer of the Year | This award recognises those individuals who readily contribute to our Island community outside their day job. |
Who do you know who’s made an outstanding contribution to our community or charitable work? |
| Innovation Award | This award recognises individuals and teams who’ve been creative in their thinking, and innovative in the solutions that they’ve generated to deliver improvements to the services we deliver. | Who do you know who works in innovative ways to deliver great value for money and / or improvements in the effectiveness of their service? |
| Working in Partnership Award | This award recognises individuals or teams that have consistently built effective partnerships as part of the way they deliver their work and improve quality and access to services. | Who do you know that really lives and breathes partnership working? |
| Rising Star Award | This award recognises and celebrates talented rising stars with the aptitude and attitude to make a real difference across the organisation. | Which individuals have impressed you by how they live our values with enthusiasm and how they’ve demonstrated their willingness to learn to make an outstanding contribution to the organisation? |
| Diversity and Inclusion Champion | This award recognises and celebrates individuals who’ve taken great steps to try and improve diversity, inclusion and belonging – across the government and / or across the Island. | Who is your diversity and inclusion hero? |
| Sustainability Champion | This award recognises the individual or team that’s made a significant contribution to help our Island become more sustainable and meet our carbon neutral ambition. | Who are your sustainability stars that inspire you to think about our environmental impact? |
| Wellbeing Champion (new award for 2023) | This award recognises individuals who have prioritised the wellbeing of others. | Who do you know that is passionate about improving the physical and/or mental health of their colleagues? |