The following table lists and describes the professional competencies by which students are evaluated.
Professional Competency |
Demonstrated Outcomes |
#1: To act as a professional inheritor, critic, and interpreter of knowledge or culture when working with management and colleagues |
· Demonstrate sound knowledge of the field in which the host organization operates · Understand the organizational mission, goals and culture · Make relevant and meaningful contributions to projects · Engage critically with projects, while demonstrating empathy and diplomacy |
#2: To communicate clearly within the host organization, both orally and in writing, using correct grammar, in various contexts related to the project |
· Demonstrate excellent oral and written language skill appropriate to the audience · Communicate effectively and professionally with ease, precision, clarity and accuracy |
#3: To develop a schedule / work plan that is appropriate to the project and host organization, with a view to achieving milestones |
· Create a clear and detailed project plan that fits logically within host organization objectives · Address potential risks and obstacles · Present reasonably challenging objectives that enable progress towards achieving milestones |
#4: To implement a schedule / work plan that is appropriate to the project and organization, with a view to achieving milestones |
· Manage projects with purposeful activities · Engage in teamwork · Detect and remedy realized risks and obstacles |
#5: To evaluate progress in achieving project/organizational objectives |
· Develop a framework to track and evaluate progress · Recognize, interpret and act upon progress evaluations · Recognize adjustment required in planning or execution · Share assessment results with management and colleagues (as appropriate) · Determine helpful remedies for realized risks and obstacles |
#6: To plan, organize and manage day-to-day activities in such a way as to promote project/organizational development |
· Establish and maintain routines that ensure the smooth progression of projects · Identify and correct organizational problems that hinder the smooth progression of projects · Establish and apply methods to solve problems that hinder project/organizational development · Model appropriately professional behaviour at all times |
#7: To adapt project management to the particular needs and characteristics of the organization |
· Adjust to challenges specific to the organization or project (e.g. lack of resources, emerging technology) |
#8: To integrate prior technical/academic knowledge in the planning and implementation of projects and for professional development purposes |
· Make strategic use of prior technical/academic knowledge to further project/organizational goals · Know how to integrate prior knowledge when appropriate into project/organizational activities · Employ prior knowledge to interact in professional and intellectual contexts · Model and employ critical judgement when using prior knowledge |
#9: To cooperate with organization staff and partners in the community in pursuing organizational objectives |
· Understand how to work as part of a professional team · Participate and add to the mission, life and community of the host organization · Understand how to establish and build trusting relationships |
#10: To cooperate with members of the project team in achieving project milestones |
· Contribute to the work of the project team in an effective manner · Take and give constructive criticism and make useful, innovative suggestions with respect to the furthering of project/organizational goals |
#11: To engage in professional development individually and with others |
· Identify their own level of achievement in professional competency development · Access and use available resources to improve professional skills · Be a critical, reflective practitioner · Undertake research projects related to specific aspects of their work and/or objectives of the host organization |
#12: To demonstrate ethical and responsible professional behavior in the performance of their duties |
· Be trusted, without reservation, as a colleague · Display diligence, responsibility, discretion, fairness, respect, acceptance and caring in all dealing with management, colleagues, and partners in the community · Support actions with well-founded reason · Be aware of, and abide by, the legal and regulatory obligations of the profession |