Committee Chair: Fran Yungwirth

Mandate:

The CIM UMS Award Committee’s mandate is to evaluate and nominate deserving candidates/groups for CIM Awards which further the Society’s objectives to:

• recognize potential Awardees which can assist in promoting the many aspects of mining to the public, thereby enhancing its status,
• attract and encourage individuals to enter mining as a career and to aspire to receive peer recognition as an incentive to remain in the industry
• Promote mining and mine personnel through publicity and peer recognition as a vibrant responsible industry

The Awards Committee, will seek input from a variety of sources in identifying suitable candidates for nomination, with the objective of completing all evaluations, screening and considerations well in advance of the deadline for nominations.  Specifically, these activities will involve, in progression:

• seeking input from all UMS executive members at least 3 scheduled meetings prior to the nomination deadline, with the committee’s proposed nominees to that date,
• seeking input from other relevant stakeholders (local CIM branches, national executive, industry) as to probable nominees
• initial screening of candidates with the objective of ranking nominees to be considered, so as to identify any deficit of nominees in the award categories, and specifically to ensure that, at a minimum, there be a nominee for the Mine Engineering Award,
• putting forward the recommended nominees to the UMS executive for consideration and comment at least one scheduled meeting prior to nomination deadline,
• identifying and selecting suitable members to support the successful nomination(s), and finalizing same for submission

The Committee will maintain a record of ranked nominees that it considered, for use in subsequent year’s considerations, as well as its nominee(s) and Awardees.

Strategic Goals:

to meet the mandate Establishing “link personnel” with respective stakeholders to ensure an early and orderly consideration of nominees, as well as dialogue with National well in advance

Annual Objective (2021/22):
Consider a regime for continuity of the Committee, such as one-year terms which bring in new executive as Member, then Vice Chair, and Chair for successive one-year terms