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“This is about building core strength inside the Australian and New Zealand public service. There are deep disruptions rapidly coming our way such as generative AI.
“We have a small window remaining to prepare our leaders so that they are better equipped for these challenges ahead. If we fail at this, then we will be failing everyone.”
Professor Dominello said just as the Australian Institute of Company Directors program has emerged as the must-have credential for business directors, he wanted the credential to be regarded as necessary for any public sector leader.
“If you’ve got this badge, it shows that you may not be a tech expert, but you’re confident and comfortable enough with digital government to ask the right questions and strongly engage in the design and development of modern programs.”
“If you want to be seen as a leader in the modern age, then you should be aspiring to have this credential in your wallet.”
ANZSOG is developing a new faculty to capture the knowledge and experience of Australia’s leading public management, digital, data and AI thinkers and practitioners.
This includes Professor Dominello, NSW chief data scientist Ian Oppermann, Human Technology Institute director Professor Ed Santow, former Victorian secretary and Public Service Commissioner and now CEO of ANZSOG Adam Fennessy and digital transformation expert Martin Stewart-Weeks.
ANZSOG is looking to also draw on private sector partners, such as the Australian Computer Society, to supplement the program and help design teaching modules.
All jurisdictions own and fund ANZSOG and the aim is to use that relationship to collaborate and draw on senior practitioners from leading digital agencies such as the Australian Tax Office, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Service NSW and Victoria’s innovative human services agencies.
“There is deep talent within leading agencies and we want to pull in Australia and New Zealand’s leading digital practitioners to build on their insights and frontline experience around modern leadership and the deployment of modern digital and data applications and systems,” Mr Fennessy said.
The credential will initially be aimed at secretary and deputy secretary level to build knowledge and confidence around modern digital government, digital acumen and citizen centric and place-based design. The aim is to eventually make it available to any public sector manager or leader.
The first module will focus on the impact of AI on government, with the first pilot to be run in November this year. Following feedback with partners, a comprehensive course will be rolled out next year.
The program design is being led by Mr Stewart-Weeks, who said it would be framed for time-poor leaders and involve a series of modules, using case studies and guest speakers.
It is envisaged the program will take about three days and be delivered over a number of weeks using hybrid face-to-face and online learning, supplemented with group and individual assessment tasks focussed on contemporary practical problems
“Learning how to “speak digital” with confidence and fluency is no longer discretionary,” Mr Stewart-Weeks said.
“It is the key to effective contemporary policy, regulation, and the design and delivery of great public services in complex policy and political environments.
“The credential is designed to be both accessible and practical for public leaders who are typically time poor, working in high-pressure contexts but who are seeking to build knowledge and confidence into their sore strength as effective, modern public leaders.
He said the program aimed to give public leaders a far deeper understanding in the three dimensions of effective public leadership – modern, digital and human – and their interdependence.
ANZSOG has built a strong community of practice around regulators, and the aim is to build a similar alumni network to enable rapid transfer of learnings between jurisdictions.
The credential is also being targeted at large community delivery partners who provide frontline services for government.
“These NGOs are an integral part of all governments and to date have not been brought into governments digital and data design thinking and planning,” Mr Fennessy said.
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