• Celebrate effective cross-sector partnering practice in Australia.
• Raise the profile of your Partnership.
• Increase understanding of the skills and training available to effectively manage cross-sector partnerships.
• The winning partnership will receive professional development with PBA up to the value of $6,000 (incl. GST). 

• Applications open at 03:00pm AEST on 10th July 2024
• Applications close at 11.59pm AEST on 16th August 2024
• Finalists will be notified in the week commencing 23rd September 2024
• The Award winner will be announced at an event by the end of October 2024

• The ANZ-PBA Partnering Award highlights and celebrates partnerships that demonstrate excellence in cross-sector partnering processes and management addressing a social or an environmental issue.
• The Award has two aims:
  • to raise the profile of good cross-sector partnering practice in Australia; and
  • to increase understanding of the skills and processes required to effectively manage impactful cross-sector partnerships.

• The Partnership Brokers Association (PBA) is an international professional body for practitioners managing and developing multi stakeholder and impactful cross-sector partnering processes.
• PBA is at the forefront of developing the profession of partnership brokering by setting standards, building capacity and promoting professionalism for those operating in this role. PBA is first and foremost a vocational training organisation with an international reputation for its training work. For further information go to: https://partnershipbrokers.org/w/training/

• ANZ and PBA aim to raise awareness of good cross-sector partnering practice in Australia with the shared view that good partnering practice can lead to effective and transformative change, scale and sustainability, ultimately delivering long term benefits and outcomes for the Australian community.

• As an international professional body for practitioners managing and developing partnering processes, PBA’s primary aims are to:
  • challenge and change poor partnering practices so that multi stakeholder collaboration can become truly transformational;
  • ensure those operating in partnership brokering roles are skilled, principled and work to the highest standards;
  • promote the critical importance of partnership process management to decision-makers in all sectors; and
  • strengthen the capacity and knowledge of partnership brokers about their practice.
• As a multinational banking and financial services company and a major Australian employer, ANZ understands the importance of being an active and positive member of the community.  ANZ’s purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive by investing significantly in the communities in which they live and work.
• ANZ takes a partnering approach to community investment because partnerships provide opportunities for mutual benefit and results beyond what any single organisation or sector could realise alone.
• ANZ has long recognised the need for specialist training for staff involved in cross-sector partnerships – and for this reason has supported staff to attend PBA training for over 20 years.

Please refer to the Eligibility & Selection criteria.

• In the first year of the Award, no categories will be specified.
• ANZ and PBA encourage all sizes and types of partnership to apply.
• A small, grass roots cross-sector partnership might be just as successful as a large scale for-purpose/corporate partnership; or an early-stage partnership (under two years) might be as competitive as a longer-term partnership.

• The judging panel will consist of accredited partnership brokers, representing expertise and experience in different sectors.
• The judging panel will review all eligible Applications.
• The judging panel will assess the merits of each eligible Application in their discretion and will ultimately determine any successful Application.

• Applications can only be made by accessing the online Application Form on ANZ’s website.
• View Terms and Conditions of entry

For any other questions please email community@anz.com