Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to ensure the organisation’s constitution is relevant, legal, understood, and meets changing needs.
It applies to individuals responsible for monitoring, guiding and undertaking decision making activities as members of committees or boards of governance.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Review the organisation's constitution | 1.1 Review the organisation's constitution to ensure it is consistent with relevant law, with the support of experts where required 1.2 Discuss the organisation's constitution with relevant organisational personnel or volunteers to communicate its purpose 1.3 Assess the organisation's constitution to ensure it is consistent with the organisation's purpose |
2. Apply the constitution | 2.1 Follow constitutional provisions when conducting committee or board activity 2.2 Check policies and programs to ensure they conform to the constitution 2.3 Identify geographic, social, economic and political contexts in which the organisation operates and assess how these may impact on provisions in and application of the constitution |
3. Make provision for constitutional amendment processes | 3.1 Devise organisational administrative procedures for formal documentation of constitutional changes 3.2 Ensure processes for amendment to the organisation's constitution are in accordance with relevant procedures and are communicated to committee or board members |
Foundation Skills
This section describes language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills incorporated in the performance criteria that are required for competent performance.
Skill | Performance Criteria | Description |
Reading | 1.1, 1.3, 2.1-2.3, 3.1, 3.2 | Interprets various texts to guide activities and decisions Analyses and evaluates validity of information to identify gaps or inconsistencies between texts |
Writing | 3.2 | Collates and compiles material using clear and detailed language to convey specific information, requirements and recommendations |
Oral Communication | 1.2, 3.1 | Participates in a variety of spoken exchanges using suitable tone, language and strategies to confirm, clarify or repair understanding Makes constructive suggestions when required Elicits views and opinions of others by active listening and questioning |
Navigate the world of work | 1.1, 1.3, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2 | Takes personal responsibility for adherence to legal/regulatory responsibilities relevant to own work context, and draws attention to any issues that may affect the organisation as a whole Recognises and follows explicit and implicit protocols and meets expectations associated with own role |
Interact with others | 1.2, 3.2 | Follows accepted communication practices and protocols, adjusting personal communication style in response to values, beliefs and cultural expectations of others |
Get the work done | 1.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1 | Develops plans to manage relatively complex tasks with an awareness of how they may contribute to longer term operational strategic goals Makes a range of critical and non-critical decisions in relatively complex situations, taking a range of constraints into account Recognises and addresses some unfamiliar problems of increasing complexity within own scope, recognising when to seek expertise of others |
Sectors
Regulation, Licensing and Risk – Governance