CORE
COMPETENCIES
PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS / TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
CORE VALUES
GOJ
Competency
Model
Work Collaboratively

Creating and maintaining positive, professional, and trusting work relationships with a wide range of people and institutions within and outside the public service to advance the strategic priorities of the Government. Additionally, delivering business objectives by creating an inclusive, innovative, and respectful environment, encouraging interdependence, and building effective partnerships and relationships with colleagues and politicians, including those at the local government level.

Sub-competencies include, but are not limited to:

  • Networking
  • Team building
  • Negotiation
  • Conflict management
  • Building Healthy Workplace Standards
Professional Bands
BAND 1
  • Seeks information, resources and support from others outside their immediate team to help achieve results.
  • Seeks help when needed to complete work effectively / works interdependently.
  • Readily identifies opportunities to share knowledge, information and earning and makes progress by working with colleagues.
  • Listens to the views of others and shows sensitivity towards others.
  • Contributes to a positive work environment.
  • Creates opportunities for self and others to improve working relationships and work outcomes.
  • Builds cooperation and overcomes barriers to information-sharing and communication across teams and units
  • Seeks constructive outcomes in discussions, challenges assumptions, but remains willing to compromise when it benefits progress.
  • Shares resources to support higher priority work, showing support for the shared goals of the MDA.
  • Proactively addresses conflict and seeks win-win solutions.
  • Develops systems that enable the MDA to engage with various delivery partners and stakeholders and listen to their feedback.
  • Builds highperforming teams within their own area, aligned around common goals and interdependent working practices.
  • Identifies opportunities to work effectively with various teams/units to solve issues and develop better processes and approaches to work.
  • Builds and maintain a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on objectives and shared interests to support the work of the MDA.
  • Builds a culture of interdependence that encourages transparency and open communication.
  • Creates, maintains and promotes a strong network of connections externally, with colleagues across the MDA, and the wider Public Service.
  • Facilitates opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop mutually agreeable solutions to issues/challenges.
  • Recognises outcomes which result from effective collaboration between and among partners and teams.
  • Builds a strong network of collaborative relationships and partnerships across the Public - Service, at the highest levels in Government and beyond (CARICOM and internationally) to achieve wider public service objectives.
  • Works effectively with key stakeholders to bring together conflicting ideas and approaches to improve governance.
  • Seeks and recommends solutions for conserving energy and environmental resources.
  • Establishes a culture of sharing and creating supporting systems for learning, knowledge and information mobilisation across the MDA.
  • Develops systems to recognise and reward the success of collaborative outcomes.
  • Publicizes and garners support for policy and initiatives by communicating with key officials within and outside of the MDA.
  • Establishes practices that uphold and improve health and safety standards for the MDA.
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