Ted Delahunty Leadership Award

Scholarship details

• 1. Award purpose

  1. Award purpose

  The Award was created to increase the number of Chartered Accountants practicing in provincial New Zealand through financially supporting a provisional member that is committed to residing and working in provincial New Zealand*.

  *NB – Provincial New Zealand includes: Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Manawatu-Whanganui, Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast, Canterbury (excluding Christchurch City), Otago and Southland.

• 2. Selection criteria

  Selection Criteria

  This Award is aimed at a provisional member who is currently enrolled and completing the CA Program and ideally approaching or completing the Capstone module – the final technical module in the CA Program. The candidate must be committed to residing and working in provincial New Zealand.

  Within the covering letter applicants must be able to confirm or provide examples of:

  • Your motivation for applying for this Award;
  • Demonstrate a clear vision that you will remain and continue to contribute to your community in your provincial area;
  • Any extracurricular and community activities you have been involved in and what they mean personally to you;
  • Any leadership or teamwork skills and situations when you have used or developed these skills;
  • Your career ambitions, particularly the contribution you would like to make to the New Zealand accounting profession or the New Zealand community; and
  • The personal impact that the Award will have on you.

  Value

  The successful recipient of the Ted Delahunty Leadership Award will receive a one-off payment of NZ$10,000.