Developing All -Round Education DARE +
Definition of cluster of competences and identification of levels
PROYECT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Project development and management is the competency to identify a need, analyze and define context and resources, design, develop, implement and enhance the action idea(s) with the aim of producing appropriate and feasible response(s).
| Competence Indicator | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needs analysis: understanding needs and gaps, causes and drivers | Gathers relevant data and identifies the pertinent facts | Identifies the deeper linkages, relationships and gaps in the data | Identifies the drivers of change in the situation |
| Creative and proactive problem solving: evaluating challenges and come up with innovative solutions | Identifies alternative solutions | Evaluates such solutions | Creates an innovative plan of action capable of gaining support |
| Resource identification and procurement: acknowledging available assets, prioritize and evaluate them, and draw them into the project | Has an overview of the available and required resources | Constructs a hierarchy of resources and evaluates their relative potential and impact | Evaluates the relative potential and impact of resources, and realizes the material support |
| Project writing and reporting: understanding guidelines, responding with structured narrative introducing novelty and convincing arguments | Responds to a template in a clear way | Responds to a template in a clear way or constructs own structure | Responds to a template in a clear way or constructs own structure and writes with conviction and originality |
| Time management: judging time requirements of tasks and foreseeing the relative demands of completing element s | Sticks to pre-defined deadlines in the different stages of the project | Allots time into tasks in a structured and planned manner | Exercises prudent foresight on the time-weighting of important issues |
| Budget design and control: following financial rules and taking the budget to its maximal impact | Follows and understands the budget template accurately | Brings budgetary concerns and matters to the broader project debate | Makes effective use of budgetary measures to maximize their impact on the project |
| People management: identifying needs and available human resources, and evaluating and mobilizing these to their maximum potential | Identifies the human resources needed to build the team | Identifies gaps and evaluates strengths and weaknesses in the available human resources, and considers possible outsourcing | Delegates and promotes empowerment of participants to perform to their highest potential |
| Effective communication: conveying ideas in a clear, collaborative and convincing way, both internally and externally | Communicates in a clear and unambiguous manner, open to the views of others | Negotiates alternative positions and generates agreement | Promotes the project to third parties with conviction and passion |
| Team building: creating, coordinating, motivating and dealing with conflict within a working set-up | Designs and implements team building activities | Takes ownership of ideas and project objectives | Negotiates tensions and deals with conflict in an effective way |
| Process monitoring: initiating, defining, planning, managing, executing and closing a meaningful project | Initiates, defines criteria, develops and produces a basic project plan, and brings the project to completion | Defines the scope of the work, implements and manages expectations, develops and produces a detailed project plan, and successfully brings the project to completion | Ensures relevance and continuing impact of the project, plans for sustainability and quality, and successfully brings the project to completion with a full final review of impact |
