Organisation Excellence Awards Category
This application form is for nominations and self-nominations for the PMI South Africa Prestige Awards 2026. Please complete one application per award category.
Section 1: Applicant / Nominator Information
Full Name of Applicant / Nominator:
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Organisation / Company:
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Position / Role:
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Section 2: Nominee Information (if different from applicant)
Full Name of Applicant / Nominator:
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Organisation / Company:
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Section 3: Award Category Selection
Please select ONE award category that best represents your application:
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Project of the Year Award: Recognizes a project (across all industries) that achieved exceptional results through excellence in project management, execution, and value delivered.
PMO of the Year Award: Recognizes a Project Management Office that has demonstrated excellence in governance, delivery support, strategic alignment, and organizational value.
Educational Project of the Year Award: Recognizes a project that improved learning outcomes, expanded access to education, or strengthened educational systems or institutions.
Consultant of the Year Award: Recognizes a consultant or consulting firm that has delivered outstanding project management expertise, resulting in impactful client solutions and demonstrated value through effective advisory support, strategic guidance, and successful project delivery.
NGO/NPO Project of the Year Award: Recognizes a non-profit sector project that delivered meaningful social, developmental, or community impact through effective project execution.
State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Project of the Year Award: Recognizes a project undertaken by a state-owned enterprise that improved public value, service delivery, infrastructure, or institutional effectiveness.
Government Entity Project of the Year Award Recognizes a project undertaken by a government entity that improved public value, service delivery, infrastructure, or institutional effectiveness.
Mining Company Project of the Year Award: Recognizes a mining sector project that demonstrated excellence in project execution and delivered measurable impact through safety, sustainability, and operational discipline.
Construction/Infrastructure Project :Recognizes the successful completion of a construction or infrastructure project that exemplifies excellence in project management and demonstrates meaningful impact on the community, organization, or environment it serves.
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Section 4: Award Criteria Description
🔵 Project of the Year
Please describe how you, your nominee, or your project demonstrates excellence in the selected award category. Supporting evidence and references are encouraged.
Project Management Excellence (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates how effectively the work was initiated, planned, governed, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed, including the management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, and overall delivery discipline.
Innovation & Ingenuity (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates how creatively challenges were addressed through new ideas, improved methods, technology, tools, or practices that enhanced the project or its outcomes.
Impact & Value Delivered (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates the measurable results achieved, including strategic value, operational improvement, customer or community benefit, financial return, social impact, or institutional advancement.
Stakeholder / Client Satisfaction (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates how effectively stakeholder and client expectations were understood, managed, and met, including communication, responsiveness, collaboration, and end-user acceptance.
Complexity & Risk Management (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates the level of complexity involved and how effectively uncertainty, dependencies, technical difficulty, compliance requirements, and risks were managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Learning Outcomes & Educational Access (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates how the project improved learning outcomes, access to education, institutional capability, student support, academic service delivery, or broader educational effectiveness.
🟣 PMO of the Year (OR) 🟢 Educational Project of the Year
Please describe how you, your nominee, or your project demonstrates excellence in the selected award category. Supporting evidence and references are encouraged.
Project Management Excellence (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates how effectively the work was initiated, planned, governed, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed, including the management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, and overall delivery discipline.
Innovation & Ingenuity (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how creatively challenges were addressed through new ideas, improved methods, technology, tools, or practices that enhanced the project or its outcomes.
Impact & Value Delivered (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates the measurable results achieved, including strategic value, operational improvement, customer or community benefit, financial return, social impact, or institutional advancement.
Stakeholder / Client Satisfaction (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how effectively stakeholder and client expectations were understood, managed, and met, including communication, responsiveness, collaboration, and end-user acceptance.
Complexity & Risk Management (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates the level of complexity involved and how effectively uncertainty, dependencies, technical difficulty, compliance requirements, and risks were managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Governance & Organizational Maturity (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates how the PMO established, strengthened, or advanced project governance, delivery standards, portfolio oversight, reporting discipline, resource coordination, and organizational project management maturity in a way that improved consistency, transparency, decision-making, and overall business performance.
🟠 Consultant of the Year
Please describe how you, your nominee, or your project demonstrates excellence in the selected award category. Supporting evidence and references are encouraged.
Project Management Excellence (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates how effectively the work was initiated, planned, governed, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed, including the management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, and overall delivery discipline.
Innovation & Ingenuity (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how creatively challenges were addressed through new ideas, improved methods, technology, tools, or practices that enhanced the project or its outcomes.
Impact & Value Delivered (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates the measurable results achieved, including strategic value, operational improvement, customer or community benefit, financial return, social impact, or institutional advancement.
Stakeholder / Client Satisfaction (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates how effectively stakeholder and client expectations were understood, managed, and met, including communication, responsiveness, collaboration, and end-user acceptance.
Complexity & Risk Management (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates the level of complexity involved and how effectively uncertainty, dependencies, technical difficulty, compliance requirements, and risks were managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Advisory Effectiveness & Knowledge Transfer (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates how the consultant provided sound professional expertise and practical guidance, enabled and strengthened the client team's capability, and left behind sustainable knowledge, processes, or ways of working that continued to create value beyond the duration of the assignment.
🔴 NGO/NPO Project of the Year (OR) 🟤 Government Entity Project of the Year
Please describe how you, your nominee, or your project demonstrates excellence in the selected award category. Supporting evidence and references are encouraged.
Project Management Excellence (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates how effectively the work was initiated, planned, governed, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed, including the management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, and overall delivery discipline.
Innovation & Ingenuity (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how creatively challenges were addressed through new ideas, improved methods, technology, tools, or practices that enhanced the project or its outcomes.
Impact & Value Delivered (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates the measurable results achieved, including strategic value, operational improvement, customer or community benefit, financial return, social impact, or institutional advancement.
Stakeholder / Client Satisfaction (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates how effectively stakeholder and client expectations were understood, managed, and met, including communication, responsiveness, collaboration, and end-user acceptance.
Complexity & Risk Management (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates the level of complexity involved and how effectively uncertainty, dependencies, technical difficulty, compliance requirements, and risks were managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Public Value & Service Delivery Improvement (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates how the project delivered measurable public benefit through improved service delivery, better access, stronger governance, enhanced institutional effectiveness, or positive community and societal outcomes.
⚫ State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Project of the Year
Please describe how you, your nominee, or your project demonstrates excellence in the selected award category. Supporting evidence and references are encouraged.
Project Management Excellence (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates how effectively the work was initiated, planned, governed, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed, including the management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, and overall delivery discipline.
Innovation & Ingenuity (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how creatively challenges were addressed through new ideas, improved methods, technology, tools, or practices that enhanced the project or its outcomes.
Impact & Value Delivered (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates the measurable results achieved, including strategic value, operational improvement, customer or community benefit, financial return, social impact, or institutional advancement.
Stakeholder / Client Satisfaction (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how effectively stakeholder and client expectations were understood, managed, and met, including communication, responsiveness, collaboration, and end-user acceptance.
Complexity & Risk Management (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates the level of complexity involved and how effectively uncertainty, dependencies, technical difficulty, compliance requirements, and risks were managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Governance & Organizational Maturity (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates how the PMO established, strengthened, or advanced project governance, delivery standards, portfolio oversight, reporting discipline, resource coordination, and organizational project management maturity in a way that improved consistency, transparency, decision-making, and overall business performance.
🟡 Mining Company Project of the Year
Please describe how you, your nominee, or your project demonstrates excellence in the selected award category. Supporting evidence and references are encouraged.
Project Management Excellence (Max Points: 20)
Demonstrates how effectively the work was initiated, planned, governed, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed, including the management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, and overall delivery discipline.
Innovation & Ingenuity (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how creatively challenges were addressed through new ideas, improved methods, technology, tools, or practices that enhanced the project or its outcomes.
Impact & Value Delivered (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates the measurable results achieved, including strategic value, operational improvement, customer or community benefit, financial return, social impact, or institutional advancement.
Stakeholder / Client Satisfaction (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates how effectively stakeholder and client expectations were understood, managed, and met, including communication, responsiveness, collaboration, and end-user acceptance.
Complexity & Risk Management (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates the level of complexity involved and how effectively uncertainty, dependencies, technical difficulty, compliance requirements, and risks were managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Safety, Sustainability & Operational Discipline (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates how the project advanced safety performance, environmental responsibility, regulatory compliance, and disciplined operational execution in a high-risk and highly controlled mining environment.
🩵 Construction / Infrastructure Project of the Year
Please describe how you, your nominee, or your project demonstrates excellence in the selected award category. Supporting evidence and references are encouraged.
Project Management Excellence (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates how effectively the work was initiated, planned, governed, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed, including the management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, and overall delivery discipline.
Innovation & Ingenuity (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates how creatively challenges were addressed through new ideas, improved methods, technology, tools, or practices that enhanced the project or its outcomes.
Impact & Value Delivered (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates the measurable results achieved, including strategic value, operational improvement, customer or community benefit, financial return, social impact, or institutional advancement.
Stakeholder / Client Satisfaction (Max Points: 15)
Demonstrates how effectively stakeholder and client expectations were understood, managed, and met, including communication, responsiveness, collaboration, and end-user acceptance.
Complexity & Risk Management (Max Points: 10)
Demonstrates the level of complexity involved and how effectively uncertainty, dependencies, technical difficulty, compliance requirements, and risks were managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Engineering Quality, Safety & Community Benefit (Max Points: 25)
Demonstrates how the project achieved high standards of engineering or construction quality, safe execution, schedule and cost performance, and lasting value for the community, client, or built environment.
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Section 5: Complete the motivation
For each criterion of your chosen award category, provide a clear and concise response explaining how the nominee meets the criterion. Each response should directly address the intent of the criterion, demonstrate alignment with the purpose of the award, and include specific examples supported by measurable results or impactful outcomes where possible.
Criteria 1
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Suggested word count: Max 300 words per criterion
Criteria 2
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Criteria 3
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Criteria 4
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Criteria 5
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Section 6: Supporting Documentation
Applicants should attach or provide links to supporting documentation that supports the nomination and provides evidence of achievement against the relevant award criteria. Examples include project reports or case studies, testimonials, published articles or references, relevant visuals such as photographs or videos, and certifications or awards previously received. Visual evidence is strongly recommended where appropriate.
Visual evidence is strongly recommended where appropriate.
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