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Duties

• Lead client engagement initiatives for skills and workforce development in key Tasmanian sectors and play a key role in implementing Industry Skills Compacts, ensuring alignment with Skills Tasmania’s goals and Ministerial priorities. Facilitate employers' and industries' understanding of and access to the vocational education and training system to foster a culture of quality outcomes and a model of shared responsibility and investment.
• Establish and nurture productive relationships across Skills Tasmania and with external stakeholders, including other government agencies at both the state and national levels. Provide advice on workforce development priorities for vocational education and training to contribute insights and recommendations for informed decision-making. 
• Collaborate effectively with the Industry, Insights, and Workforce team, and the broader Skills Tasmania team fostering communication and cooperation to achieve shared objectives.
• Provide credible, expert, and strategic advice on complex matters related to industry skills, training, and workforce development to relevant stakeholders, including the provision of information on the Department’s business assistance services to assist build business capacity. Apply advanced research and analytical skills to assess stakeholder needs, offering creative and innovative responses, while demonstrating a detailed understanding of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.
• Develop insights and action plans supporting industry development and informing policy formulation. Ensure workforce planning remains agile and aligned with labour market dynamics, changing standards, emerging trends, legislative change, professional practice requirements and emerging skills requirements.
• Prepare high level written work and correspondence which may include Ministerial correspondence, Minutes, Cabinet documentation, reports, briefing material and conduct presentations for the Department’s senior management. This may include the preparation of responses for government and intergovernmental inquiries and replies to Ministerial and stakeholder requests.
• Coordinate and administer compliant, customer focused grants, providing appropriate reports, advice and remediate and/or escalate where appropriate.
• Facilitate relevant Tasmanian industry’s participation in the development of National Training Packages and provide advice to government, as needed, on industry and community stakeholder’s perspectives.
• Develop insights and action plans supporting industry development and outcome-based evaluation, informing policy formulation. Ensure workforce planning remains aligned with labour market dynamics and emerging skills requirements.

Essential Requirements

Evidence of the following must be provided prior to appointment to this role:

• A current drivers licence. 

The person must continue to satisfy the above essential requirements/qualifications throughout their employment in this role.

Desirable Requirements

• Tertiary or industry qualification or comparable experience

Download the Statement of Duties and Associated Documents

 Statement of Duties - Industry Partnership Manager.docx

 Statement of Duties - Industry Partnership Manager.pdf

 Advice to applicants.DOCX

 Advice to applicants.pdf

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How to apply

To apply, please provide a one to two page document outlining your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the Statement of Duties, and a copy of your current Resumé/CV. 

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Complete the following application form and email your application to us at recruitment@stategrowth.tas.gov.au

 Application for Employment (Form 201).DOCX

 Application for Employment (Form 201).pdf