APS Career Pathfinder

Brief description

Live release 1.0

This APS Career Pathfinder dataset contains the capability frameworks, role definitions and learning catalogues used by the [APS Career Pathfinder](https://digitalprofession.gov.au/aps-career-pathfinder-tool) tool to facilitate career exploration and development in the Australian Public Service (APS).

The role definitions include typical APS roles, which describe the skills and general capability requirements typically found in APS jobs based on those roles. You can use these definitions to determine potential career pathways and identify skills gaps and learning solutions that may help fill those gaps.

The focus at present is on digital roles, and therefore the capability frameworks, role definitions and the learning catalogue we are using primarily address digital, data and ICT. However, the APS Career Pathfinder tool has the capability to work with other types of capability framework, with roles and leaning mapped accordingly, so that it can support career exploration and development in potentially any area of capability.

We’ve defined roles according to skills drawn from capability frameworks, primarily [SFIA](https://sfia-online.org/en/), the Skills Framework for the Information Age. We use additional capability frameworks where relevant, including other skills frameworks (like [CIISec](https://www.ciisec.org/), the Chartered Institute of Information Security skills framework, and the [DCF](https://www.apsc.gov.au/publication/aps-data-capability-framework) Data Capability Framework), knowledge frameworks (like our simple knowledge magnitude scale), and behaviours (using the APS Work Level Standards). Additional details about roles include:

* a brief description of each role or discipline
* a mapping to the APS Job Family Model
* a mapping to areas of interest
* alternative names the roles may have
* link to a ‘day in the life of’ profile for certain roles
* relative role demand
* link to learning solutions related to each role

We may define roles as typical APS roles, which are not specific to any agency, or as agency-specific roles. Agencies can include their role definitions in this dataset by sending their definitions to the contact email below.

Please send requests to change or augment any of this data to the contact email below. We may consult with our community before including them.

This dataset includes the full SFIA framework, reproduced and made available through the [SFIA-AU](https://digitalprofession.gov.au/skills-framework-information-age) license. Use throughout Australia is permitted through this license, but may be restricted for foreign and multi-national organisations.

Full description

typical_aps-roles.csv - ##General Information\r\nThis dataset describes roles typically found in the Australian Public Service, on which many jobs in various agencies are based. The attributes included in this dataset are described in the Explainer document.\r\n\r\n###Change Log\r\n* The Jan. 2023 release includes Data roles provided by the Data Profession.\r\n* The 14 Mar 2023 upload restores Data roles and Workforce planner roles removed by previous March upload.\r\n* The Jun 2023 release includes more role descriptions and more aliases.\r\n* The Feb 2024 release includes AI roles.\r\n* 18 Apr 2024 - Minor name change (Software Engineer > Software Engineer (Developer)\r\n* 17 Feb 2025 - Tidying up of data, adding in semi-colons to separate alias names.\r\n* 16 Apr 2025 - Correct formatting issue (no change to data)
Typical APS Roles - human readable form - ##General Information\r\nThis is the same data included in the typical_aps-roles.csv dataset, but presented in a more human readable form in an Excel spreadsheet.\r\n\r\nIt includes the essential and desirable skill requirements for all typical APS roles, described using the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA), APS Data Capability Framework (DCF), APS Workforce Planning Capability Framework (APSWFP) and the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) frameworks.\r\n\r\n###Change Log\r\n* The Jan. 2023 release includes a new field indicating the date each role record was last updated. Note that this represents the data the information changed in our master records, not the date it was uploaded to data.gov.au.\r\n* 18 Apr 2024 - Minor name change (Software Engineer > Software Engineer (Developer)\r\n* 2 Dec 2024 - Removed eroneous characters, includes Workforce Planner and Data Professional roles. \r\n* 16 Apr 2025 - Synchronising with Typical APS csv update
Explainer document - DRAFT - document that explains the career pathways framework and elements used by APS Career Pathfinder.
typical_aps-classifications.csv - Classifications relating to roles in the typical_aps-roles dataset
Data Profession Roles March 2025.csv - Skill descriptions for typical data roles within the Australian Public Service as defined by the APS Data Profession. Contains essential and desirable SFIA8 and DCF skills.
HR Profession Roles.csv - Skills required in typical workforce planner roles in the APS.
Digital Profession Roles March 2025 - Typical Digital Profession roles with essential and desirable SFIA8 skills
ato-roles.csv - ATO HR Roles for testing purposes
ato-classifications.csv - Classifications relating to the ato-roles dataset
ato-skills-1.csv - ATO Capability Framework, skills components
ato-knowledge-1.csv - ATO Capability Framework - knowledge components only
goverp-roles.csv - GovERP roles
sfia-skills-7.csv - Skills Framework for the Information Ages (SFIA) version 7.
sfia-skills-8.csv - Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) version 8.
ciisec-skills-2.4.csv - Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) Skills Framework version 2.4
knowledge.csv - Knowledge indicator used for typical_aps roles
influence.csv - Span of influence indicator for typical_aps roles
sfia-learning.csv - General learning assets mapped to SFIA 7 and SFIA 8.
ato-knowledge-levels.csv - Provides the name of the ato-knowledge levels.
aps-data-skills-1.csv - APS Data Capability Framework 1 Nov. 2021\r\n\r\nThis data set includes a 3-character code associated with each skill that is not present in the original framework.
sfia7-learning.csv - General learning resources mapped to SFIA 7 only.
Data Capability Framework v1 - This is the APS Data Capability Framework created by the Data Profession to describe the unique capabilities required in data roles.
data-roles-1 - For testing purposes. A sample role file with one role and one skill to demonstrate application of the Data Capability Framework (DCF)
skillsoft-learning - The Skillsoft learning catalogue mapped to SFIA 7 and SFIA 8 skills, provided with courtesy from Skillsoft for the purposes of testing in Career Pathfinder beta.
vps-classifications - Classification structure for the Victorian Public Service
VPS Capability Framework - Victorian Public Service Capability Framework
VPS Roles - For testing - a sample of VPS roles mapped to the VPS Capability Framework.
VPS Learning - For testing purposes - LinkedIn Learning catalogue mapped to the VPS Capability Framework
Services Australia learning resource catalogue - List of Services Australia curated learning resources mapped to SFIA 8 and CIISec 2.4
sfia8-learning - General learning resources mapped to SFIA 8.
APSWFP-Skills - For testing purposes - APS Workforce Planning skills framework
APSWFP-Roles - for testing purposes - APS Workforce Planning roles mapped to SFIA and APSWFP-Skills
LG Classifications - LG classifications for testing purposes
LG Roles - LG roles for testing purposes
SFIA Behaviours - Testing a model of behavioural skills based on the SFIA 8 Levels of Responsibility
APSWFP-Learning - This file contains learning resources relevant to the APS Workforce Planning collection of roles, using the SFIA and APSWFP frameworks.
NSW-T-ProcurementSkill-framework - Procurement skills framework for the NSW Treasury to test Career Pathfinder
NSW-T-Classification-framework - NSW Treasury test data for Career Pathfinder
NSW-T-Roles-to-Skills - NSW Treasury test data for Career Pathfinder
NSW-T-Learning-to-skills - NSW Treasury test data for Career Pathfinder
SA Roles - SA Roles test data
SFIA Levels of Responsibility - This is a set of classifications that are just the SFIA Levels of Responsibility. It has been included for testing purposes.
NICE SFIA Roles - For testing purposes. This roles collection contains NICE roles associates with SFIA skills and behaviours.
SA-knowledge-levels - Testing - SA-knowledge-levels
SA-knowledge-1 - Testing-SA-knowledge-1
SA-skills-1 - Testing-SA-skills-1
Opportunity Program Classifications - Classifications for the Opportunity Program (SAU)
Opportunity Program-skills.csv - Technology (stack) and Certification data for the Technology Group in SAU
OpportunityProgram-roles.csv - Testing role types for the Opportunity Program
opportunities-latest-leariningresourcecatalouge.csv - Test of the Learning Catalogue for opportunities register.
Opportunities Program Capabilities - Opportunities Program Capabilities Version 1
dcf_learning.csv - Learning catalogue for skills pertaining to the DCF.
austrade_skills_2.csv - Austrade capability framework, skill component.
austrade_roles.csv - Austrade roles.
austrade_classifications.csv - Austrade classifications.
Complex Project Management roles -
Opportunities Program Frameworks.csv - Knowledge Frameworks used in the TDP Group for the Opportunities Register
Opportunities_Program Credentials.csv - Credentials (Certificates and certifications) for TDP for the Opportunities Register
Opportunities_Program Knowledge.csv - Knowledge items (TDP) for the Opportunities Register
Tas first five roles data test.xlsx - Test data to demonstrate Tas gov roles in APS Career Pathfinder