scholarly journals Co-Project Officer

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Project Officer

College Students Training Law Enforcement Officers: The Officer Charlie Get Fit Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Judge ◽  
Tonya Skalon ◽  
Makenzie Schoeff ◽  
Shannon Powers ◽  
James Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Fat Percentage ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Project Officer

While most law enforcement agencies recognize the importance of physical fitness for their officers and encourage them to maintain an adequate level of fitness, many find it difficult to implement a fitness program successfully. Prior studies and literature support the implementation of community-centered fitness initiatives. The purpose of this study was to (1) describe participant outcomes from the service- learning project Officer Charlie Get Fit Project and (2) delineate Kolb’s experiential learning model implemented by undergraduate kinesiology majors when applied in an exercise setting. Students were charged with working directly with police officers over an 8-week program with the goal of lowering health-risk factors for the participants. Additionally, the project provided an opportunity for students to assess their own learning style and infuse it in a real-world professional application. Participants included 16 police officers (M = 44.6, SD = 10.7 years of age) and one elected city administrative official. Paired sample t tests revealed nonsignificant differences between the pretest and posttest scores on the 10 fitness measures. Descriptive statistics revealed improvements in categories of body weight, BMI, waist circumference, hip circumference, resting heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, sum of skinfolds, and overall body fat percentage. Participant exit interviews indicated positive qualitative results. The student reflection piece indicated that the frequent writing helped with (1) the myriad of planning and preparation issues, (2) selecting a community partner and recruiting participants, and (3) data collection and analysis. This study was an important assessment of immersive learning opportunities provided through classroom lecture and development of community partnerships.

Propulsion Prospects

1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (707) ◽  
pp. 923-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Weir
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Junior Officer ◽  
Project Officer

I welcome this opportunity of following in the footsteps of the eminent and erudite speakers who have given the Barnwell Memorial Lecture on previous occasions. A number of my predecessors in this role were closely associated with Captain Barnwell. Indeed, some were included among his personal friends. I cannot make any such claim, but I did have the privilege of working in association with him for brief periods during 1936 and 1937. At that time I was, in modern parlance, the Project Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment on the successful altitude record flights made by Sqn. Ldr. Swain in 1936 and Fit. Lt. Adam in 1937, in Barnwell's Bristol 138A mono-plane. We met on relatively few occasions but I well remember the kindly and tolerant attitude of this eminent aeronautical pioneer towards a very junior officer.

Elvis Maio, Project Officer

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
Elvis Maio
Keyword(s):  
Project Officer

Artists’ lives

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
The Future ◽  
Project Officer ◽  
National Life ◽  
Story Collection

Since 1990 the National Life Story Collection has documented the lives of almost eighty of Britain’s visual artists by means of in-depth tape-recordings, often completed over many months. Cathy Courtney, Project Officer of Artists’ Lives, describes the evolution of an initiative which will subtly alter the context in which historians of the future come to assess the art of our time.

scholarly journals Building Leadership Capacity and Enacting School Improvement Policy: Voices from the Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindy-Anne Abawi ◽  
Tania Leach ◽  
Julie Raitelli
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Policy Interpretation ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Improvement Strategies ◽  
Project Officer ◽  
Regional Project ◽  
Building Leadership Capacity

Education contexts engaging in reform, operate in complex environments that require the coherent implementation of education policies. Research highlights that systems that support shared leadership, strong communication practices and a sharp focus on the articulation of shared beliefs, are positioned to support strong policy interpretation though the enactment of school improvement strategies. This paper explores the inter-connected roles of a system middle leader (regional Project Officer) and a school leader (Principal) in interpreting and enacting systemic policy and direction in a state primary school within a regional context in Queensland, Australia. The case study utilised the regional Project Officer and Principal participants as co-researchers and captured their experiences through recorded narratives and narrative inquiry conversations. The thematic data analysis provides useful information about how school leaders can work with system middle leaders and their own school’s teaching teams to proactively grow the capacity, credibility and strength of teachers to translate policy into enacted school improvement strategies.

scholarly journals Driving Project Delivery from the Top Down: Engaging Executive Leaders as Project Sponsors

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 5459
Author(s):  
Alicia Aitken
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Executive Leaders ◽  
Project Officer ◽  
Valuable Role

The perspective of the Chief Project Officer is a new and valuable role in the project management team. In this first of an ongoing series, Dr. Alicia Aitken will contribute to PMRP with this unique perspective and offer insights to both this emerging role and its impact on project success.

The chief project officer: a new executive role for turbulent times

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Te Wu ◽  
Zhu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Project Management Office ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Senior Project ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Project Officer ◽  
Key Topics

Purpose While it is common for most C-suite executives to have substantial project responsibilities, many do not have a strong understanding of project management leading to significant failures. As projects are the main mechanisms for implementing changes, project performance has disproportional impact on the competitiveness and viability of organizations. This paper aims to attempt to raise awareness of the Chief Project Officer (CPO) role and lay out important skills and capabilities that are needed for managers to ascend to this role as well as key topics of concern when preparing the mindset to be a successful CPO. Design/methodology/approach The authors have based this research on reviewing publications from the project management journals and publications, interviews of project management professionals and drawing from our industry experience in the field of project management. Findings Most organizations have project managers, either formal or informal, to lead projects. As project environment intensifies across industries, larger organizations rely on a project executives and project management office to oversee projects and performance of C-suite tasks. However, these projects and project management office (PMO) managers often lacks the authority and legitimacy to fully carry out the expected function. This is a clear gap in organizational management, and the gap is growing as more resources are dedicated to projects. Many organizations are equipped with the human resource to develop a CPO, the authors identify five main skills and 20 key topics that are crucial to the success of this vital role. Originality/value While the awareness of the CPO is still in its infancy, most organizations have equivalent or emerging senior project executive roles that may evolve and become CPOs. Today, organizations are increasingly pushed to pursue project-oriented structures to a rapidly changing environment, global market and fast-paced technological advances. It is likely that the CPO role will grow and become a crucial component in top management teams in the coming years to help organizations in moving forward to achieve their strategic goals and objectives.

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