APS Professions is a core component of the APS learning ecosystem, focusing on building specialist capability of the APS.
APS learning ecosystem
Targeting capability development in the Australian Public Service (APS) relies on an integrated approach to develop specialist skills and expertise. This ensures we remain agile when adopting and modernising skills and capabilities and developing our workforce.
Each of the following pillars support this approach:
APS Academy
- Focus on building core public sector skills, tools and knowledge
- Develop and deliver innovative, practitioner-led learning and development
- Connect the best in learning, leveraging APS and external partners
APS Professions
- Target critical shortages of APS-wide capabilities
- Attract, retain and develop deep expertise
- Provide rewarding careers in critical areas
Specialist development hubs, centres of excellence and communities
- Target capability development
- Provide fit-for-purpose pathway towards the desired capability uplift
- Develop and promote skills, tools and resources
- Create a community to provide peer support, coaching and mentoring
Partnerships with professional associations and industry
- Targeted development for cohorts or job families
- Cohorts of employees with professional memberships
- Employer-sponsored certification pathways
- Targeted recruitment and mobility programs tapping into central programs
Agency-specific technical capability development (Learning and Development team and business areas)
- Targeted and practical approaches to capability development to meet specific agency functions and requirements
- Longer-term learning programs
- Agency-driven learning, linking to APS-wide initiatives
APS Academy
The APS Academy is a networked hub of learning and development; working with APS and industry partners to build the capability and performance of the APS workforce. The APS Academy supports you to build your APS craft capability.
Centres of excellence
The APS Centre of Excellence for Workforce Planning supports the implementation of Delivering for Tomorrow: APS Workforce Strategy 2025 through building and deploying strategic workforce planning capability within the APS.
The APS Change Management Centre of Excellence provides advice, resources, support and a range of change management services across government.