Assessment process for Victorian Health Promotion Awards

The role of a judge is to vote on finalists of the Victorian Health Promotion Awards. A judge uses the award’s criteria, support notes (as well as drawing on their own experiences) to vote for their preferred finalists. 

Judging for the Victorian Health Promotion Awards will take place on the online awards platform (AwardForce). 

Each award category will have a panel of 3 judges. 

Steps to assess:

1. Log into AwardForce here

2. Select the award you are judging, refer to the notes from the independent assessor

3. Vote for your favourite finalists using our guide – refer below to How the voting process works

4. Log out and send an email to your VicHealth captain to let them know you’ve completed your assessment.

5. When all votes are in, we’ll hold a quick Microsoft Teams to discuss the category and make sure there is confirmation on the winner from all judges. Following this meeting, the finalist with the most votes and confirmation from the judging panel will be confirmed as the winner!

6. Winners will be announced at our ceremony to be held early 2023. This means the meeting and voting process will all be under embargo and we will not share any information with the nominees. 

Each judge will be given 3 votes for their category. After you read through the assessor's feedback, you will be able to vote for your preferred finalist. 

You can give three votes to three different nominees, or if you feel one finalist is extremely strong, you may give them 2 votes and then only give 1 vote to another.  

However, you cannot give one finalist more than 2 votes.  

To help you further please watch our video below which steps through how to use AwardForce and vote

Outstanding Health Promotion Award

• Is it clear why this organisation or project has been nominated in this category? 
• Did the project achieve the objective it set out to? 
• Did the organisation or project demonstrate innovation in their work? 

• Was the project able to make changes so that it stayed relevant during the coronavirus pandemic? 
• Did the project have a demonstrated positive impact? 
•  Will this project have ongoing impact in the community? 
• Has the project demonstrated strong value for money?
• How effectively did the project work with other organisations? 

Driving Health Equity Award

• Is it clear why this organisation or project has been nominated in this category? 
• Did the project achieve the objective it set out to? 
• Did this project support a group of people facing greater barriers to good health (ie. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Victorians with disability, the LBTQI+ community, people with a culturally diverse background, live in regional and rural areas or somewhere devastated by bushfires)? 

• Did the project codesign the initiative with the group of people it aimed to support? 
• Was the project able to make changes so that it stayed relevant during the coronavirus pandemic? 
• Did the project have a demonstrated positive impact? 
•  Will this project have ongoing impact in the community? 
• Has the project demonstrated strong value for money?

• How effectively did the project work with other organisations? 

Building Back Better Award

• Is it clear why this organisation or project has been nominated in this category? 
• Did the project achieve the objective it set out to? 

• Did the project demonstrate creativity in supporting their community to recover from the pandemic and/or bushfires? 
• Did the project have a demonstrated positive impact? 
• Will this project have ongoing impact in the community? 
• Has the project demonstrated strong value for money?
• How effectively did the project work with other organisations? 

Future Healthy Award

• Is it clear why this organisation or project has been nominated in this category? 
• Did the project achieve the objective it set out to? 
• Was the project able to make changes so that it stayed relevant during the coronavirus pandemic?  

• Did the project have a demonstrated positive impact for young people? 
• Did the project involve young people in codesigning the project?  
• Will this project have ongoing impact for young people? 
• Has the project demonstrated strong value for money?
• How effectively did the project work with other organisations? 

Community Legend Award

• Is it clear why this volunteer has been nominated in this category? 
• Has the volunteer demonstrated exceptional service to their community/organisation? 
• Has the volunteer had a strong impact on their community or been a link between communities? 

Leading Health Promotion Research Award

• Is it clear why this organisation or individual has been nominated in this category? 
• Is it clear what knowledge gap the research addresses? 
• Is it clear how the researchers conducted the project and why they did it this way? 

• Has the research been developed with policy or practice partners to ensure its relevance to these end-users? 
• Is it clear what the key findings were? 
• Has the research been effectively shared with others (policy makers, practitioners, other researchers) to ensure it gets used? 
• Does the research demonstrate an ability to have a positive impact on health and wellbeing policy or practice, or the broader community? 

Outstanding Media Reporting Award

• Is it clear why this journalist has been nominated in this category? 
• Does the journalist have a strong health and wellbeing focus? 
• Does the journalist clearly demonstrate accurate and evidence-based reporting? 
• Has the journalist’s reporting had a positive impact on the community? 

Stephen Walter Excellence in Health Promotion Marketing Award

• Is it clear why this marketing campaign/initiative has been nominated in this category? 
• Did the campaign have a clear objective? 
• Did the campaign show a good understanding of the target audience(s)? 

• How effective were the campaign partnerships?  
• Did the marketing campaign achieve the objective? 
• How effectively did the campaign reach the target audience(s)? 
• Did the project have a demonstrated positive impact? 
• Has this marketing campaign’s success and impact been measured well? 

• Has the project demonstrated strong value for money?

Future Changemaker Award

• Is it clear why this person has been nominated in this category? 
• Has the nominee demonstrated exceptional service to their community/organisation? 

• Has the nominee had a strong impact on their community? 

The VicHealth captain is the first point of call our judges. The VicHealth captain is a current staff member who will be able to assist you with technical questions and will also vote for their top scoring nominees.  

Your designated VicHealth captain would have sent you your welcome email with the link to this webpage. If you need to get in contact with the team but can’t remember who your VicHealth captain is, please email [email protected].