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AJ15 Evaluate archaeological project achievements and secure improvements

AJ15.3 Promote and protect planned work and those who carry it out

Performance Criteria

1. Ensuring that the promotion of the benefits of programmes, projects and plans to stakeholders is clear and effective.
2. Identify threats to programmes, projects, plans and people at an early stage.
3. Where threats can be anticipated, ensuring that effective steps are taken to counter them in the planning and delegation of work.
4. Ensuring that methods to counter threats take account of the reasons for and sources of the threats.
5. Fully informing those under threat of the developing situation and the support available to them
6. Ensuring that allocation of resources to the promotion and protection of programmes, projects and plans is specific and appropriate.

Range Statement

1. Promotion:
   • lobbying
   • maintaining the profile of the work and people
   • explaining the work in conversations and meetings
   • holding briefings
   • publications

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Establish ethics and norms within organisations.
• Analyse risk in initiating and managing new programmes, projects and plans.
• Resource projects, programmes and plans.

You need to know about:

• Promotion, consultation and negotiation techniques.
• Analytical and evaluation techniques which establish the work routine of individual, team or group, such as work studies and process mapping.
• Assessment and evaluation techniques which appraises the work conducted.
• Assessment and evaluation techniques which establish the position of stakeholders.
• Objectives, work methods and activities of programmes, projects and plans within the manager's control.
• Potential sources of threats to activities inside and outside the organisation.
• Channels of communication and influence within the organisation.

Required Skills

N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can promote and protect planned work and those who carry it out

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• promote and protect planned work and those who carry it out

Observation of the candidate or witness testimony will be essential as evidence of performance

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in evaluating achievements and securing improvements on at least 2 projects or activities

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