Outstanding Maverick Awards
Service Audience:
- Current Employee
- Supervisor
- Faculty
Nominate a staff member or team of staff members who deserve recognition TODAY!!
Here at UTA we are elated to have such phenomenal employees. UTA invites you to nominate employees who exemplifies “being a Maverick” in all that they do. We are recognizing up to 8 individuals (2 per category) and 1 team from our institution for their outstanding performance, service excellence, enthusiasm, and dedication in their jobs for the academic year September 1, 2022 through November 1, 2023.
The Outstanding Maverick Award (OMA) individual honorees receive $1,000 and the Team honorees will share $2,500. Winners will be honored with a celebration hosted by Talent Culture, and Engagement. (TCE).
The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, December 1, 2023.
- Current UTA Classified and Administrative & Professional staff members who are below Director level are benefits eligible.
- Benefits eligible employees (appointed 50% to 100%) who have been employed for a minimum of six months during September 1, 2022 through present.
- The nominee must be in good standing from their most recent performance evaluation ("meets expectation" or higher).
- Previous honorees who received an award more than five years ago are also eligible.
- Self-nominations are not accepted.
Engagement & Belonging
This nominee seeks to foster partnerships with communities that value differences with respect to every individual’s exceptional contribution to society. He/she may help provide an environment that ensures unique work and educational experiences through belonging and engagement.
Community Outreach
The individual is committed to at least one of the following areas: public service, community service learning through UTA, and/or partnerships with other North Texas businesses and organizations. In addition, as an ambassador of UTA, the nominee may also support and/or assist with public lectures; academic symposia; and artistic, musical, and dramatic productions.
Sustainability
This nominee is committed to “Going Green” in one or more of the following: environmental stewardship, purchasing, addressing energy and water conservation, transportation, and recycling.
Maverick Excellence
This nominee is someone who projects a positive image, build customer rapport and good will. The nominee has the ability of delivering excellent service; someone who finds ways to exceed the customers expressed and implied needs and also models excellence when promoting UTA.
This award recognizes unique, distinct, and outstanding contributions of employees working as a team (either within a department or cross-divisionally), beyond normal operations. Here are examples of superb teams:
- Works effectively as part of a team to successfully accomplish a task or meet a goal advancing departmental goals and/or UTA mission.
- Builds effective collaborative relationships across different groups of departments within the organization to define and solve problems or reach agreements on a course of action while considering multiple perspectives striving to create outstanding projects that contribute to a better UTA.
- Creates a team environment that promotes communication, trust, cooperation, and respect for differences, meeting strategic and operational goals through an extraordinary team effort.
- Contributes to a group effort which has a significant impact on departmental goals, fostering cooperation, collaboration, and open communication. Places team goals above personal goals while achieving a distinctive result or product (teams may constitute an entire department and can be cross-functional).
For questions about the Maverick Award nomination process, eligibility or nomination criteria, or the Outstanding Maverick Award, please contact the Office of Talent, Culture, and Engagement or 817-272-5554.
Office of Talent, Culture, and Engagement
J.D. Wetsel Service Center
1225 W. Mitchell St.,
Suite 212, Box 19176
Arlington, TX 76019
Phone: 817-272-5554 - Fax: 817-272-7288
E-mail: askhr@uta.edu