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Matrices
Partnerships
Competencies
OPMG089 Partnering (Leadership)
Develops networks and builds alliances, engages in cross-functional
activities; collaborates across boundaries, and finds common ground
with a widening range of stakeholders. Utilizes contacts to build and
strengthen internal support bases.
PAR01 Consensus Building
Raises issues, seeks to understand other's views, and then
cooperatively, often through compromise, develops an agreed upon
resolution.
PAR02 Facilitation
Carries out a set of functions or activities that enables others to selfmanage
to meet common objectives. Provides non-directive leadership
to help others arrive at decisions that are its task. Assists and guides
without controlling.
PAR03 Collaborative Leadership
Enables people to join together from different units or organizations to
accomplish a task that none of them could accomplish individually; leads
as a peer, not a superior. Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride,
trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit towards
mission accomplishment; works with others to achieve goals and realize
a sense of shared accomplishment.
PAR04 Leveraging Partnerships
Builds the sense of a team and culture that understands the importance
of partnership work, embraces the value added by doing work in
collaboration with others, and continually acknowledges the importance
of each entityA(.s contributions to the partnership. Transforms
individualism into shared stewardship towards achieving NPS mission.
Reinforces the importance of partnerships through words and actions.
PAR05 Partner Culture Awareness
Acknowledges, understands, respects, and communicates respective
partnersAi, cultures that are based upon missions, practices, people,
governing values, traditions, financial capacity, and institutional
histories. Finds ways that partnersAi, cultures can contribute to
strengthen the mutual endeavor; values the differences and finds ways
to integrate these differences into a workable operating culture for the
overall partnership.
PAR06 Partnership Management
Knowledge of the principles, methods, and procedures related to
establishing, nurturing, maintaining, evaluating, sustaining,
troubleshooting, and dissolving partnerships towards NPS mission
accomplishment.
PAR07 Community Collaboration
Identifies, engages, and works collaboratively with communities of place
(which are tied to physical space through geography), communities of
identity (which are tied to each other through social characteristics but
may transcend place) and communities of interest. Such collaborations
mutually benefit the community while fulfilling the NPS mission by
protecting park resources and values and fostering long-term
stewardship.
PAR08 Developing and Managing Agency Agreements for Partnerships
Knowledge of the concepts, policies, and practices related to NPS
partnership agreements and authorities including agreement
development, essential components, monitoring, evaluating, and
terminating. Understands the role of and works effectively with NPS
Contracting and Procurement and Solicitor's Office to develop and
manage agreements.
PAR09 Collaborating with Gateway Communities
Understands the social, political, economic and symbiotic role that parks
and gateway communities play in each others' identities and livelihoods.
Collaborates with Gateway Communities to protect and enhance the
natural, cultural, and visual resources of parks and gateway
communities.
PAR10 Establishing and Working With Friends Groups
Knowledge of the concepts, policies, and practices needed to establish
and sustain a viable partnership with a Friends Group to meet jointly
developed goals.
PAR11 Donations and Fundraising Partnerships
Knowledge of the concepts, policies, and practices related to donations
and fundraising partnerships in the NPS including appropriate donation
uses and types, authorities, role of NPS and partners, ethical
considerations, challenges, funds accountability, annual recording,
fund raising campaigns, donor recognition. Uses this knowledge to
collaborate with various sources of the philanthropic and grant making
communities to leverage funds towards achieving NPS mission.
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