APS Academy

The Australian Public Service Academy continues to build capability in the core skills that define excellence in public service – APS Craft. During its second year of operations, the APS Academy is strengthening whole-of-APS capability through a focus on practitioner-led learning and partnering across the network to identify and scale learning offerings in craft domains.

The APS Academy operates as a networked hub of learning and development excellence to leverage expertise from across the APS, academia and the private sector, connecting learners with experts in their field.

The APS Academy has recently partnered with APS agencies to deliver a number of flagship offerings. Examples include:

  • Delivering Great Policy, developed with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and covering the key elements of delivering policy advice
  • Strengthening Partnerships with ministers and their offices, developed with an expert panel to help every APS employee understand their role and the role of their minister and ministerial advisers
  • APS Unlocked, which brings together new and returning members of the service with experienced APS leaders and practitioners, to share information and experiences for a successful and productive start in the service.

Specialised APS Craft programs are delivered through an annual calendar, focussing on building foundational, practitioner and lead capabilities in the APS. These include senior leadership programs (Senior Executive Service Band 1 to 3), foundational and SES-level integrity offerings, Excellence in Regulation and the APS Indo-Pacific executive development program.

The integrated approach to building capability is guided by Delivering for Tomorrow: APS Workforce Strategy 2025 and Highly Capable-Future Ready: APS Learning and Development Strategy and Action Plan.

Established in July 2021, the APS Academy’s mission is to foster an APS-wide culture of learning that builds core public service capabilities and drives high performance. It operates in support of the broader APS reform agenda and is central to the Government’s priorities of integrity, putting people at the centre and driving a continuous learning culture for public service excellence.

See also

Australian Government (n.d.) The role of the APS Academy, APS Academy website, https://www.apsacademy.gov.au/, accessed 5 October 2023.

Australian Government (n.d.) Highly Capable, Future-Ready: APS Learning and Development Strategy, APSC website, https://www.apsc.gov.au/learning-and-development/highly-capable-future-ready-aps-learning-and-development-strategy, accessed 5 October 2023.

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