Competency questions 

(if required)

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving
answers to the following questions:

1. Give us an example of a time when you had to influence other people and persuade them
to work in a collaborative way when there were different personal or organisational agendas

 What was the context? Who had to be influenced or persuaded?

 What was your task?
 What action(s) did you take? Why?  How?
 What was the outcome(s)? If you were successful, how did you know?

2. Tell us about a time when you had adapt your style, approach, and delivery method to
communicate effectively with a particular audience

 What was the situation?

 What did you have to communicate and to whom?
 How did you adapt to meet the needs of this particular audience? What were the
things you did differently?
 What was the impact? Did you communicate effectively with the audience?  How did
you know?

3. Give us an example of how your skills in managing the available resources and people’s
time led to the delivery of quality outcomes on time

 What was the context or situation?

 What was expected of you?
 How did you set about the task? What action(s) did you take?
 What were the results? How did you know you had been successful?