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-Jan. 2023: Release includes Data roles provided by the Data Profession.\r\n\r\n-14 Mar 2023: Upload restores Data roles and Workforce planner roles removed by previous March upload.\r\n\r\n-Jun 2023: Includes more role descriptions and more aliases.\r\n\r\n-Feb 2024: Includes AI roles.\r\n\r\n-Apr 2024: Minor name change Software Engineer > Software Engineer (Developer).\r\n\r\n-17 Feb 2025: Tidying up of data, adding in semi-colons to separate alias names.\r\n\r\n-16 Apr 2025: Correct formatting issue (no change to data).\r\n\r\n-25 May 2025: Restore Software Engineer (Developer) title accidentally removed in last update.\r\n\r\n-31 Jul 2025: Add "(Developer)" to Associate, Senior and Principal Software Engineer role titles.\r\n\r\n-19 Aug 2026: Update all roles to SFIA9, include Chief Digital Officer, Chief Data Officer and Chief Information Officer roles.\r\n
Typical APS Roles - human readable form - ##General Information\r\nThis is the same data included in the typical_aps-roles.csv dataset presented in a more human-readable form.\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 (DCF1), APS Workforce Planning Capability Framework (APSWFP) and the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) frameworks.\r\n\r\n###Change Log\r\n#### Jan 2023 \r\nRelease 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\r\n####18 Apr 2024\r\nMinor name change (Software Engineer > Software Engineer (Developer)\r\n\r\n#### 2 Dec 2024\r\nRemoved erroneous characters, includes Workforce Planner and Data Professional roles.\r\n\r\n#### 19 Aug 2026\r\nAll roles mapped to SFIA9\r\n
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 - Skill descriptions for typical data roles within the Australian Public Service as defined by the APS Data Profession. Contains essential and desirable SFIA9 and DCF1 skills. \r\nSome AI & ML roles have SFIA9 skills.\r\n\r\n19 Aug 2026: All roles updated to SFIA9, SFIA 8 skills removed.
HR Profession Roles - Skills required in typical workforce planner roles in the APS.\r\n\r\n19 Aug 2026: Roles updated with SFIA 9 skills.
Digital Profession Roles Sep 2025.csv - Typical Digital Profession roles with essential and desirable SFIA8 skills. Added revised Testing, \r\n--------------------------------------------------------\r\nUpdates:\r\n\r\n20/6/25 Added Penetration testing and Cyber Analyst roles with SFIA9 skills. \r\n8/9/25 Added AI & Machine learning roles with SFIA9 skills.\r\n17/8/26 Updated all roles to SFIA9, added Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer roles. Removed SFIA8 skills. \r\n\r\n
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 Learning - For testing purposes - LinkedIn Learning catalogue mapped to the VPS Capability Framework
sfia8-learning - General learning resources mapped to SFIA 8.
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.
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.