HOW TO APPLY

Submitting your application is the first step to participate in the PMO Global Awards.

The first part of the application process consists of a simple form, which will collect some basic information necessary for the Organizing Committee to verify your eligibility.

By submitting your application, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to all PMO Global Awards rules and procedures.

Within five working days after submitting the form, you will receive a message from the Organizing Committee notifying if it is accepted.

After acceptance, in the first week of May we will send you a brief questionnaire and you will be able to perform the second part of the application process, submiting your Nomination Package at any time by May 31st.

After submitting the questionaire, in up to five days, the Organizing Committee will verify the file and confirm its acceptance, or request adjustments and new submission.

Therefore, we suggest that the Nomination Package's sending be done in advance of the May 31st deadline. This way, there will be enough time for the Organizing Committee to request adjustments, and for the applicant to implement them before resubmitting the Nomination Package.

ELIGIBILITY

PMO Leader of the Year Award

• Nominees must be at least 35 years old.

• Only individuals with a minimum of a total of eight-year PMO or Project Management leadership experience can be nominated.

• The nominee must be working regularly as a PMO Leader in the last 12 months, considering the date of submission of the application.

• PMO Global Alliance affiliation is not required for nominees.

• Directors, Heads, Managers, Coordinators, or any other leadership position can be considered PMO Leaders.

• The PMO Leader must have a minimum team of two subordinate professionals.

• Consultants are not eligible to be nominated.

PMO Influencer of the Year Award

• Nominees must be at least 30 years old.

• Executives, Practitioners, Consultants, Authors, and Researchers can be nominated.

• PMO Global Alliance affiliation is not required for nominees.

PMOGA Lifetime Contribution Award

• Nominees must be at least 60 years old.

• The nominee must have a history of significant contributions to the PMO or Project Management field.

• Practitioners, Consultants and Academics are eligible for this award.

• PMO Global Alliance affiliation is not required for nominees.

PMOGA Fellow Award

• Nominees must be at least 40 years old.

• The nominee must have a history of significant contributions to the PMO Global Alliance community.

• Practitioners, Consultants and Academics are eligible for this award.

• PMO Global Alliance affiliation is required for nominees.

PMOGA Volunteer of the Year Award

• Nominees must be members of the PMO Global Alliance community.

• The nominee must have a history of significant contributions to the PMO Global Alliance community.

• Practitioners, Consultants and Academics are eligible for this award.

All Awards

• PMOGA employees, PMOGA contractors, and PMOGA consultants are not eligible for any award in this category.

• Current members of the PMO Global Awards Committee are eligible but they will not be able to judge the Individual category, only the PMO category.

NOMINEES DEFINITION

PMO Leader of the Year Award

Nominations to this award are open to any eligible individual and there is no restriction on the number of nominees per organization or nationality.

Individuals can apply and nominate themselves or can be nominated (with the individual’s approval) by organizations, the Nominating Committee, or other individuals.

PMO Influencer of the Year Award

This award is not opened for applications.

The nominees will be appointed by the Nominating Committee, composed of professionals from several countries.

These nominations will be based on an extensive analysis of the contributions of the potential candidates in 2020/2021.

PMOGA Lifetime Contribution Award

This award is not opened for applications.

The nominees will be appointed by the Nominating Committee, composed of professionals from several countries.

These nominations will be based on an extensive analysis of the contributions of the potential candidates during all their professional lives.

PMOGA Fellow Award

This award is not opened for applications.

The nominees will be appointed by the PMOGA Board.

These nominations will be based on an extensive analysis of the contributions of the potential candidates since the PMO Global Alliance was founded.

PMOGA Volunteer of the Year Award

This award is not opened for applications.

The nominees will be appointed by the PMOGA Board. These nominations will be based on an extensive analysis of the contributions of the potential candidate in 2020/2021.

COMPETITION FORMAT

PMO Leader of the Year Award

The evaluation process has four stages: Qualifying, Regional Semi-Finals, Regional Finals and World Final.

The Regional Semi-Finalists (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas) will be announced on July 31st, 2021.

The Regional Finalists (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and The Americas) will be announced on August 15th, 2021.

The Regional Winners (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and The Americas) will be announced on August 31st, 2021.

The World Winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 12th, 2021.

PMO Influencer of the Year Award

The evaluation process has three stages: Qualifying, World Semi-Finals and World Final.

The World Semi-Finalists will be announced on July 31st, 2021.

The World Finalists will be announced on August 31st, 2021.

The World Winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 12th, 2021.

PMOGA Lifetime Contribution Award

The evaluation process has three stages: Qualifying, World Semi-Finals and World Final.

Semi-Finalists and Finalists will not be disclosed.

The award winner(s) will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 12th, 2021.

PMOGA Fellow Award

The evaluation process has three stages: Qualifying, World Semi-Finals and World Final.

Semi-Finalists and Finalists will not be disclosed.

The award winner(s) will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 12th, 2021.

PMOGA Volunteer of the Year Award

The evaluation process has three stages: Qualifying, World Semi-Finals, and World Final.

The World Semi-Finalists will be announced on July 31st, 2021.

The three Regional Finalists will be announced on August 31st, 2021.

The award winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 12th, 2021.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

PMO Leader of the Year Award Criteria

1) PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY

This criterion evaluates the nominee’s journey, analyzing his/her career in terms of consistency and the path that made the nominee become an outstanding PMO Leader.
Weight: 10%

2) LEADERSHIP

This criterion evaluates how the nominee has been acting as a true Leader in the last 24 months, supporting and motivating his/her team to collaborate, develop skills and deliver value and results to the organization.
Weight: 20%

3) BEST PRACTICES

This criterion evaluates how the nominee has implemented and run his/her PMO in the last 24 months. It evaluates the PMO structure, practices, and solutions that were implemented by the nominee to deliver the expected results.
Weight: 20%

4) INNOVATION

This criterion evaluates what innovative practices and solutions the nominee has implemented in the last 24 months to overcome the organization’s challenges.
Weight: 15%

5) COMMUNITY

This criterion evaluates how much the nominee actively works to create an engaged PMO community into his/her organization, industry and country.
Weight: 15%

6) VALUE GENERATION

This criterion evaluates the effective results delivered by the nominee in the last 24 months to his/her executives, sponsors, customers, stakeholders, and the organization as a whole. It also evaluates how much the nominee has contributed to the improvement and evolution of the organizational culture and maturity. Finally, it evaluates how the nominee has been encouraging the engagement of the organization’s senior management and improving the sponsorship level.
Weight: 20%

PMO Influencer of the Year Award Criteria

1) PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY

This criterion evaluates the nominee’s journey, analyzing his/her career in terms of consistency and the path that made the nominee become an outstanding PMO Influencer.
Weight: 15%

2) INFLUENCE

This criterion evaluates how the nominee has been consistently acting as a true PMO Influencer in the last 24 months, inspiring the PMO community, providing valuable contributions to professionals and organizations.
Weight: 20%

3) BEST PRACTICES

This criterion evaluates the technical quality of the nominee’s contributions in the last 24 months.
Weight: 15%

4) INNOVATION

This criterion evaluates what innovative contributions the nominee has provided to the PMO community in the last 24 months.
Weight: 15%

5) COMMUNITY

This criterion evaluates how much the nominee actively works to create an engaged PMO community in his/her country and in the World.
Weight: 15%

6) VALUE GENERATION

This criterion evaluates the impact of the nominee’s actions, words and ideas in the PMO community and how much the community recognizes the importance of his/her contributions.
Weight: 20%

PMOGA Volunteer of the Year Award Criteria

1) VOLUNTEER JOURNEY

This criterion evaluates the nominee’s journey, analyzing his/her work in terms of consistency and the path that made the nominee become an outstanding volunteer.
Weight: 20%

2) INFLUENCE

This criterion evaluates how the nominee has been consistently influencing the community to grow and engage in the last 24 months, inspiring our members and, providing valuable contributions and support to make them more and more involved with our community.
Weight: 20%

3) INNOVATION

This criterion evaluates what innovative contributions the nominee has provided to the PMOGA to improve engagement and retention of members in the last 24 months.
Weight: 20%

4) COMMUNITY

This criterion evaluates how much the nominee actively works to create an engaged PMO community in his/her country and in the World.
Weight: 20%

5) VALUE GENERATION

This criterion evaluates the impact of the nominee’s actions, words and ideas in the PMO Global Alliance community and how much the community recognizes the importance of his/her contributions.
Weight: 20%

PMOGA Lifetime Contribution Award and PMOGA Fellow Award.

• Potential candidates for these two special awards are appointed by the PMO Global Alliance Board of Directors, which has the privilege of selecting the winners.

• The main criterion used is the importance of the set of recognized and relevant contributions that candidates have provided to the global project management community and PMOs.

IMPORTANT:

• The evaluation process is exclusively online. Judges will watch materials to select the best nominees, considering the established criteria.

• In the Qualifying Stage, the nominees will be evaluated individually by different groups of judges. In the Final Stage, the three finalists of each Award will be evaluated comparatively (pairwise comparison), and the best performer will be appointed as the winner.

• If there is a tie in the consolidation of the judges’ results, a new judge will be assigned until the winner can be defined.

• The Judges’ evaluations must be as objective as possible and will be performed based on criteria, supporting the identification of which nominees have an outstanding performance.

• Judging Committee Members allocation will be defined by drawing. To avoid any conflict of interest, judges cannot evaluate nominees from the countries they are representing or from their countries of birth.

• The evaluation process is strictly technical and there is no political or any other non-technical aspect that may influence or change the evaluation results. The Judging Committee decisions are final and cannot be disputed by the competitors.

• The evaluation process and its scores are proprietary to PMO Global Alliance and will not be disclosed to anyone, except to the Auditing Committee, composed of Judging Committee Members from the same home countries of the finalists that will be able to verify all the detailed information of the final evaluations, ensuring the reliability of the evaluation process.

GENERAL RULES

All applications and documents must be completed in the English language (Business English) since they will be evaluated by an international Judging Committee who may not be familiar with acronyms and terms from your organization, industry or country.

The Nominee must obtain all permissions of use from his/her organisation before submitting the Nomination Package.

Submitting the Nomination Package, the nominee grants PMO Global Alliance the non-exclusive right to use any submitted materials for any business-related purpose, including making the materials available for the community in our websites, press releases, and other marketing and promotional materials, including but not limited to video presentations.

If the nominee is one of the finalists, he/she have to agree that the PMO Global Awards glass trophies are offered at no cost by the PMO Global Alliance. However, the finalists must provide the shipping service at their own expense.

Finalists can use their own shipping contracts or reimburse the PMO Global Alliance for these costs.

The trophies will be shipped with DHL from the PMO Global Alliance operations office, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Based on previous editions' experiences, it is expected that the shipping service will not exceed 200 USD.

Finalists will have distinguished participation in the 2021 PMO Global Awards Experience Online Conference, which will take place in November 2021.

The schedule of the online conference and the involvement of these professionals as our special guests will be released in September 2021.

PMO Global Alliance will not reimburse any expense for assembling the Nomination Package, for any materials that may need to be created, or for any expense related to the Awards Ceremony, the PMO Global Awards Experience Conference or trophies shipping services.

PMO Global Alliance reserves the right within its sole discretion, and at any time up to the time of the presentation of the award, to determine that a participant is or has become ineligible for the award.

PMO Global Alliance reserves the right to accept or reject applications and Nomination Packages; make or cancel an award, or change deadlines as circumstances dictate, always aiming to promote the PMO Global Awards quality and benefit the global PMO community.

PMO Global Alliance reserves the right to rescind an award if it is discovered that any information submitted as false or misleading.

Participants, finalists, and winners will be publicized through PMO Global Alliance (and its partners) communication channels and external media. Participants may also coordinate additional publicity with PMO Global Alliance.

NOMINATION PACKAGE GUIDELINES

The Nomination Package of the Individual Category Awards consists of brief questions that must be answered by the nominee, providing the necessary information for the analysis of the evaluation process.