Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander career pathways service
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander career pathways service has been designed to increase the representation of First Nations employees in leadership and decision-making roles (A08 level roles and above).
The service works through a partnership approach with a range of agencies across the sector, providing First Nations employees (participants of the service) with access to a range of capability opportunities to support their career journey.
The service is designed to be employee-centred and applies continual feedback loops to understanding the learning needs of First Nations employees and works by:
- Supporting individual First Nations employees to progress
- Breaking down silos, creating culturally safe workplaces through working with and supporting supervisors and agency representatives of First Nations participants to build a more culturally capable sector.
Watch the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Career Pathways Service video to find out why the career pathways service was created and what the service provides.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander career pathways service works closely with partner agency representatives to consider the career advancement needs of First Nations public sector employees and supports their career journey. The activities and outcomes align with our Leadership competencies for Queensland and the 70-20-10 learning principles.
We provide First Nations public sector participants and their supervisors engaged in the service access to a range of capability development opportunities, including but not limited to:
- cross-agency and external learning and development opportunities
- personal network growth opportunities
- cultural capability opportunities and resources
- monthly participant-only yarning circle opportunities
- mentor opportunities within a culturally safe environment
- secondment and permanent position, job shadowing, mentoring and shared resource opportunities via the Career pathways job and mobility pool participant-only.
There are no mandatory requirements. You can opt in and opt out of opportunities as it best suits your capacity, interests and learning style. Partner agencies and the Career pathways team will distribute the expression of interest across our communications platforms.
Email careerpathways@psc.qld.gov.au or call the Career pathways team on (07) 3003 2831 for more information or to get involved.
Access to unique tools and resources
The Career pathways team delivers engagement activities throughout the year to increase access to opportunities, and to assist in building connections and networks across the sector. The team also closely supports participants through a learning needs analysis approach.
Participants and supervisors have access to a range of unique resources including:
- self-assessment and reflection tools
- tools to enable culturally safe conversations and working environments
- resources to facilitate confidence building and capability development
- an online community to connect participants, supervisors and agency representatives. Read the Career pathways privacy statement.
Supervisors of participants also have access to:
- learning and development opportunities to strengthen their leadership and cultural understanding, including masterclasses
- networking events and activities.
Queensland public sector organisations interested in participating in the career pathways service can contact the Career pathways team on (07) 3003 2831 or email careerpathways@psc.qld.gov.au.
We’ll help you:
- support First Nations public sector employees to progress into leadership and decision-making roles
- provide participating employees with ongoing access to a range of learning and development opportunities.
Visit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Career Pathways Service on the Good Design Australia website for more on how this service was designed.