Current mobility programs

Mobility jobs board on APSJobs

The mobility jobs board is a place for current Commonwealth employees to browse temporary opportunities. A temporary opportunity will be described as a micro-assignment, secondment or temporary transfer.

APS Surge Reserve

The APS Surge Reserve provides Government with the capacity to rapidly mobilise APS volunteers in large numbers. Surge Reservists will deploy for short periods (initial terms of up to 8 weeks) to help APS colleagues.

Surge Reservists are public servants drawn from across the Commonwealth willing to set aside their day-to-day work in a crisis. The work they do will differ based on the reason for the call-out.

Jawun secondment program

The Jawun APS Secondment Program is open to high-performing, highly-skilled Executive Level employees, who are flexible, resilient and are prepared to be taken out of their comfort zone to work for a 6-week period in an Indigenous organisation. Jawun also offer 6-12 week Empowered Communities secondments to SES Band 1 or high performing Executive Level 2 officers.

Treasury secondment program

The Treasury has an extensive secondment program that offers rewarding and challenging mobility opportunities. The program enables the temporary exchange of staff between the Treasury and other Australian and international organisations, private sector, academia and other agencies within the public service, including state and territory Treasury departments.

Parliamentary Budget Office Secondment Program

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has a secondment program aimed at officers at the APS 5 to EL1 (or equivalent) classification who have strong quantitative analysis skills and an aptitude for economic and financial modelling across a range of areas. Placements to the PBO may be for a period of 6-12 months.

oneAPS Opportunities

The Digital Profession have been piloting a mobility program, called oneAPS Opportunities. The program enables agencies to access digital professionals from across the Australian Government in a fast and flexible way to work on short-term mobility opportunities.

Short-term flexible mobility opportunities are like micro-assignments and can be set up quickly and easily. Staff stay connected to their home teams using ‘informal arrangements’.

Practitioner members in the Digital Profession can see what opportunities are available via the member community. You can post and apply for short-term mobility opportunities by joining the Digital Profession.

The UN Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Program with the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (dfat.gov.au) provides opportunities for early-career public servants to gain practical experience in multilateral cooperation. Participants undertake one to three year assignments in international institutions critical to Australia’s interests. In accordance with UN requirements, JPOs must hold Australian citizenship, be no more than 34 years of age at time of application, and hold a post-graduate degree in a discipline related to the specific vacancy.