Core Compentencies

The Five Core Competencies for Program Staff:

1. Process Design and Execution
2. Policy Competency
3. Political Grounding
4. Project Management
5. Presence/Presentation

The Center for Collaborative Policy has identified the following five core competencies as the essential skills and attributes in which the Center's program staff need to be effective in order to carry out our mission:

1. Process Design and Execution : Ability to use the tools, techniques and skills of collaboration, including:
   
   • Public policy consensus-building;
   • Public policy dispute resolution;
   • Feasibility assessments for collaborative processes;
   • Collaborative process design;
   • Strategic planning and visioning;
   • Facilitation of public discussions;
   • Internal stakeholder team building;
   • Technical assistance and training on policy collaboration; and
   • Collaborative public participation.
     
     
2. Policy Competency: Experience in and knowledge of policy issues and ability to become quickly proficient in policy areas that are the focus of the collaboration.
   
   
3. Political Grounding: Understanding of the nuances of political processes, how it is relevant to collaborative processes and ability to provide strategic guidance on how to ensure beneficial interaction between the two.
   
   
4. Project Management: Ability to achieve desired outcomes and to submit agreed-upon deliverables on time and within budget and to ensure high quality outcomes for clients and stakeholders in complex projects through proactive planning; effective management of time, details, and events; team building; budget, personnel, and resource management; effective interface with the clients involved, and provision of appropriate level of structure and direction for the initiative.
   
   
5. Presence/Presentation: Ability to command both small and large groups' attention; aptitude with facilitation techniques and ability to convey complex information in a neutral, engaging manner.