APS Digital Career Pathfinder

Introduction

The Australian Federal Government has embarked on a wide-ranging capability improvement programme.

They are using the SFIA Framework alongside their own behaviour framework.

• they have a multi-year public sector SFIA licence covering some 96 government departments and all IT resources within.

This programme is being jointly led by the Australian Public Service Commission and the Digital Transformation Agency.

Key activities in their work to date include...

• the identification of Digital Transformation Roles,
• the definition of these roles using SFIA and their behavioural values
• career paths to enable more structured career advancement.

Currently around 200 roles have been defined.

The Digital Transformation Agency have developed and published a tool called APS Career Pathfinder.

The Programme

The future of work is learning

The future of digital career pathways in the APS

APS Digital Career Pathfinder

• The APS Digital Career Pathfinder dataset contains role definitions for typical roles in the Australian Public Service (APS). You can use these definitions to determine potential career pathways and identify skills gaps in digital disciplines in the 

Roles are defined according to...

• the skills - using SFIA where relevant,

• knowledge — using a simple magnitude scale,

• behaviors — using the APS Work Level Standards.

Additional details include:

• a brief description of each role or discipline
• a mapping to the APS Job Family Framework
• alternative names the roles may have.