Department of Education and
Training Graduate Program 2018
Pathway information
Generalist Pathway
The Department of Education and Training is seeking to recruit talented graduates in a variety of
roles. Generalist graduates will have the opportunity to work across the department in roles that
may relate to policy development and advice, project and contract management, program
implementation, finance and governance, human resources and communications.
The Generalist pathway is suited to graduates from a diverse range of academic backgrounds,
including (but not limited to):
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Communications/ Marketing
Commerce/ Accounting/ Business
Economics
Human Resources
Law*
Political Science
* Our Legal areas may fill some positions with a corporate legal focus. Please indicate on the
application form if you would like to be considered for a corporate legal position.
The Data Science / Analyst and ICT Pathways
The department is seeking to recruit talented graduates to join us as we transform our approach to
data, analytics and ICT.
Opportunity through learning
The skills and capabilities we require may be provided by graduates from a range of academic
backgrounds including:
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Economics/econometrics
Statistics
Information technology
Mathematics
Computer science
Software engineering
Data Scientists/Data Analysts/Data Governance Pathway
The Department of Education and Training is seeking to recruit talented graduates who can
understand and provide meaning to and bring together diverse datasets and then explore it to find
patterns, trends and insights. Graduates will then apply what they have learned to inform the
department’s policy agenda and develop evidence-based solutions.
The department is moving from traditional data statistical and analytics to Datafication - the ability
to transform non-traditional information sources such as text, images, and transactional records into
data will allow quantitative analysis to influence policy decisions more deeply than ever before.
To support this move to datafication, the department is also seeking graduates with the data
governance skills and knowledge needed to support establishment and development of data
management practices and processes including logical analysis of taxonomies, data and metadata.
You will have the opportunity to participate in cutting edge and emerging data linkage and data
integration initiatives across government.
You will need:
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strong analysis and validation capability of significant volumes of data including the ability to
discover and quantify patterns and trends
good communication skills to explain the implications of your findings to business executives
demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts verbally and in writing
ability to engage and collaborate with other government agencies and the community on new
and existing approaches to using data to build insights which to inform government policy
capability to develop statistical models and design reports to shape understanding and inform
current and future policy development.
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Pathway
The Department of Education and Training is seeking talented graduates to fill a range of ICT roles
including business analysts, solution and system design, data management and analytics, user
research, vendor management and project management to support development and
implementation of a range of ICT projects, program initiatives and other business objectives. The
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Graduate will use their broad understanding of ICT to
support the department’s ICT and data transformation.
ICT graduates will undertake user research, data analysis and investigate solution design to provide
advice and contribute to the design and development of ICT solutions to support a wide range of
government ICT programs and initiatives.
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You will need:
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the ability to investigate and analyse business problems and then design a feasible solution
a mix of business and technical knowledge, and the ability to engage collaboratively with
business areas
to have the capability to identify opportunities for improvement to processes and business
operations using information technology, analysing user needs and gathering and documenting
requirements
to apply project management skills to create project plans and manage delivery of outcomes
to undertake user research and user centred design
to plan effective data storage, sharing and implement data management structures and
processes.
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