Award Nominations
The New Zealand Institute of Intelligence Professionals host an annual Intelligence Community Awards. This event is a fantastic opportunity to acknowledge the incredible talent and diversity within New Zealand’s Intelligence Community. It’s our way of recognising the contributions that drive the intelligence sector’s growth and success. Since this event is about celebrating the community, membership is not a requirement for either making a submission or being nominated.
The awards are broken into 3 distinct categories:
- Intelligence Achievements: This category honours the outstanding accomplishments of individuals, teams, or organisations. The awards here primarily recognise successes achieved within the past 12 months.
- Inter-Agency Excellence: This section highlights those who have made significant contributions to the broader community, extending beyond the boundaries of their own organisation. Like the first category, it focuses on achievements from the past year.
- Fellowship Award: This award is reserved for individuals who have demonstrated significant and sustained contributions to the wider intelligence community over an extended period.
How to Submit
Nominations are accepted from 1 January each year until 6 weeks before the Awards night (typically held in November). This year, the awards night will be held on 21st November (venue TBC). Award nominations must be submited by 5pm, Thursday 10 October. Submissions can be submitted online, or by downloading this form and emailing it to awards@nziip.org.nz.
Recognition of Classified Achievements
To ensure inclusion across the intelligence sector, the NZIIP Awawrds process also aims to recognise those staff working in roles across the intelligence community that cannot receive public praise. Nominees are considered across the same award groups and categories outlined below. Nominations that fall within this space are made direct to the NZIIP Awards subcommittee, are assessed using the same criteria, and are presented privately by the appropriate agency head.
To make a classified submission, please email awards@nziip.org.nz and provide an email address and details of which system/classification you wish to use for your submission. We will then arrange for the form to be sent to you.
Category 1—Intelligence Achievements
This prestigious group of awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and exceptional performance of individuals and teams within New Zealand’s intelligence sector. The awards honour emerging talent, seasoned professionals, innovative thinkers, effective leaders, and exemplary educators who have demonstrated remarkable commitment and impact in their respective fields. By recognising these achievements, we aim to inspire continued excellence and foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration within the intelligence community.
About this Award
This award recognises the performance of any member of the New Zealand intelligence sector below the age of thirty-five who has demonstrated an exceptional capability and dedication in their role as an intelligence collector or analyst.
Criteria
• An intelligence collector, analyst, or leader below the age of thirty-five.
• Demonstrates exceptional capability in their role.
• Demonstrates exceptional dedication in their role.
• Role models leadership behaviours.
• Inspires others to work collaboratively.
About this Award
This award is focused on recognising performance of those intellgience sector leaders responsible for developing teams, managing process, growing capability, and leading intelligence support across New Zealand's agencies. Nominees can be managers, organisations or commercial entities.
Criteria
• Demonstrates dedication to growing capability within a team or organisation.
• Demonstrates strategic and future-focused thinking.
• Demonstrates a commitment to innovation.
• Demonstrates a commitment to long-term learning.
• Applies, organises, or employs intelligence professionals to further an organisation’s objectives and inform decision making.
About this Award
This category recognises an agency, team or person responsible for noteworthy or outstanding innovation in one or more of the fields of collections, analysis, reporting or leadership, in any intelligence discipline.
Criteria
• Showcases initiatives that are taking an inventive approach to navigating a complex and changing external environment.
• Shared innovation or learnings across team/agency/profession to enable a broad and sustained capability uplift.
• Innovation success has had an impact broader than that of just the individual.
• Innovation success has impacted on the ability of intelligence to inform decision making.
About this Award
This award looks to recognise an agency, team or person who has made outstanding advances to the state of intelligence training in New Zealand, whether through exceptional devotion to intelligence training and mentoring, or through a breakthrough in intelligence collection and analysis techniques.
Criteria
• Demonstrates commitment to intelligence training.
• Demonstrates commitment to mentoring and the potential of others.
• Makes a unique and innovative contribution to the delivery of learning.
• Demonstrates exceptional skills in learning and development, quality of delivery, and meeting business needs.
• Demonstrated results and success in training.
About this Award
This award recognises the development and growth of professionals in the New Zealand intelligence community and is aimed at recognising those who have provided direct, insightful or notable contributions to their team, agency or area. This award is intended to recognise the greatest achievement by an individual in New Zealand’s intelligence sector in a given year.
Criteria
• Effectiveness in coordinating the planning of intelligence support.
• Effectiveness in processing information into intelligence.
• Sophistication and diligence in the use of collections or analytical techniques in support of their work.
• Intelligence output has had a significant impact on decision making.
• Providing tactical, operational or strategic coverage to areas not previously served or served adequately.
Category 2—Inter-Agency Excellence
The group of awards recognises and honours the collaborative efforts that are essential to the success of New Zealand’s intelligence community. Specifically, this group of awards pays tribute to those who have gone above and beyond in fostering inter-agency cohesion, enabling the seamless integration of knowledge, skills, and resources across government entities.
In 2019, the intelligence sector saw the untimely passing of our dear friend and colleague Oliver Harper. Oli was widely known across the intelligence community and an inspiring advocate for change and innovation, be it from his work in counter proliferation, his work with the New Zealand Customs Service or his tremendous contribution to the Geospatial field within New Zealand and the wider New Zealand Defence Force. Oli was well-regarded as a subject matter expert who was always willing to share his knowledge and happy to learn from others. He was energetic, empathetic, charismatic, and had a knack for always knowing what and how to contribute to a discussion or activity in a thought provoking, meaningful and valuable way.
His work with the Institute saw the development of our intern programme and we would have never had the benefit of such a wonderful inclusion to NZIIP without his contribution. Oli was always willing to give his time and energy to ensure the best possible outcome for the field of work and the teams that he loved so much. He was a great mentor to the interns and a valuable NZIIP Committee member. We remember all the contributions he made to the profession. Rest in peace Oli, your legacy stands strong with NZIIP.
About this Award
In keeping with the spirit of the late Oli Harper, this award looks to recognise an individual that has made notable advances in developing inter-agency cohesion, enabling broader successes for New Zealand’s intelligence professionals, resulting in more integrated and efficient outputs.
Criteria
• Demonstrates the highest dedication to inter-agency and all-of-Government approaches.
• Demonstrates a tireless drive to improve collection or production processes.
• Builds and maintains relationships across agencies that enhance the mana of the home agency and contribute to successful intelligence impact of both agencies.
About this Award
Criteria
• Demonstrated exemplary intelligence collaboration over the past 12 months.
• Demonstrated outcomes, gains and quantifiable benefits for national security or national resilience, including evidence of enduring impacts, changes or potential for change (this could be in safety, or security, crisis, on a project, prevention, training, mproved service or product, etc.)
• At least one agency involved must have an intelligence component.
• Activity must involve a minimum of two agencies.
Category 3—Fellowship Award
This category recognises an individual who has made significant, long-term contributions to the intelligence profession. The recipients of this Award are honoured with lifetime memberhsip of the Institute and are permitted to use the post-nominals FNZIIP.
Criteria
Recipients of this award are acknowledged for delivering outstanding service in one or more of the following areas:
• intelligence practice internationally,
• the New Zealand intelligence community, or
• the Institute itself.