Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
communication and negotiation skills to work with team members and other stakeholders to maintain project schedules
communication skills to relate to people with diverse abilities and from diverse backgrounds in a culturally appropriate way
literacy skills to read, write and review a range of documentation
numeracy skills to:
analyse data
compare time lines and promotional costs against budgets
planning and organising skills to develop, monitor and maintain implementation schedules.
Required knowledge
organisation's mission, goals, objectives and operations and how the project relates to them
organisational structure, and lines of authority and communication in the organisation
relevant legislation and codes from all levels of government that may affect aspects of business operations, including:
anti-discrimination legislation
codes of practice
environmental issues
ethical principles
WHS
privacy laws.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Project scope and other relevant documentation may include: | contract or other agreement project brief project plan or summary other documents outlining: expected outcomes of the project inclusions and exclusions from project project resources quality standards for project timeframes for project. |
Stakeholders may include: | clients or customers (internal and external) funding bodies management, employees and relevant key personnel (internal and external) with special responsibilities project sponsor. |
Delegating authority may include: | customer or client funding body manager or management representative project sponsor. |
Project parameters may include: | project finances or budget integration of project within organisation legislative and quality standards physical, human and technical resources available or required for project procurement requirements associated with project reporting requirements risks associated with project, including WHS scope of project time lines. |
Project plan may include: | details of how the project will be managed roles and responsibilities time lines work breakdown structure. |
Project management tools may include: | cost schedule control system Critical Path Method Gantt and bar charts life cycle cost analysis logistics support analysis PERT charts project management software risk and issues logs spreadsheets technical resources required for the project, for example WHS management-system tools. |
Support for project team members may include: | additional physical, human and technical resources (within allocated budget) if and as required encouragement feedback learning and development regular project team meetings supervision, mentoring and coaching. |
Required record-keeping systems may include systems for: | correspondence financial data, including costs, expenditure, income generated and purchases project outcomes quality data, including any test results recording of time spent on project and progress in completing project samples, prototypes and models. |
Resources may include: | human physical technical. |
Risk management may include: | changing roles and responsibilities in project team negotiating an extension of deadline, or redefining completion or quantity or quality of outcomes outsourcing some aspects of the project reducing costs researching and applying more efficient methods for completing project tasks seeking further resources to meet deadline sharing ideas to gain improvements to work undertaken in the project. |
Necessary sign-offs may be required by: | clients funding body management project sponsor. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist