Get the skills and knowledge to help you advance your career in policy development.

IS THIS COURSE RIGHT FOR YOU

Are you a policy specialist seeking the skills and knowledge to formulate, advise and implement strategic policy outcomes?

Could your career benefit from a better understanding of all aspects of the policymaking process?

This revised course offers the opportunity to assess the perspective you bring as a policy practitioner. This includes learning more about taking an evaluative approach to policymaking and reflecting on the influence you can wield in achieving policy objectives. 

An understanding of policy development was identified by the NSW Public Sector leaders as one of the Skills for Success that all public servants now need. This course builds the knowledge built in our Policy Basics course.

Whether you are an experienced policy formulator or putting together advanced policy analysis, this course will build on your existing knowledge and experience to give you a fulsome understanding of the intricacies of policy development across the government.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

You will finish the course knowing you can:

• respond to risks, opportunities and challenges in policy development.
• anticipate factors that shape the policy process, including responsibilities at different levels of government and stakeholder interests.
• use evidence to support sound, well-informed policy decisions, and to plan for monitoring and evaluation of policy performance over time.
• design a program logic that links policy actions to intended results.

TOPICS COVERED

• Intergovernmental coordination challenges, including addressing data gaps for evidence-informed policy design.
• Using stakeholder consultation to obtain meaningful inputs.
• Building program logic and theory of change into proposals with financial and risk assessments.
• Working from a structured problem analysis to develop implementation, monitoring and evaluation planning.

NSW Public Sector Commission Capability Framework

Policy Development Advanced is for people at the Adept to Advanced levels and you will develop the following capabilities:

• People Management: Manage Reform and Change
• Results: Deliver results
• Badge will be provided on completion of the course

The course is also mapped to IPAA Policy topic area.

Course Details

If you have a group of 5 or more, please reach out to [email protected], for an in-house course and our Learning team will be in touch.

Please note: All NSW Public Servants are automatically Affiliate members of IPAA NSW and entitled to Affiliate rates. To activate this, sign up here.

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