The Job Nicolai Award is presented to select students enrolled directly with CIFFA who have achieved the highest average grade in the CIFFA Certificate Courses. The average grade is based on the combination of the International Transportation and Trade, and Essentials of Freight Forwarding courses. Consideration for this award is given to each region in Canada.
Mr. Job Nicolai was a Central Region Lecturer in the early 1990s before CIFFA e-learning was developed. To be able to offer education through correspondence to students outside the main learning centres, Mr. Nicolai came up with the idea of developing exercises to go along with each chapter in the CIFFA International Freight Forwarding Courses. When Mr. Nicolai died, CIFFA introduced the Job Nicolai Award in his honour.