Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment Action Plan
The ACT Education Directorate acknowledges the importance of an inclusive and equitable workplace, where all employees are safe, valued, and able to flourish.
To ensure the Directorate is a great place to work for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, this Employment Action Plan (Action Plan) brings together and promotes career opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and enhances the development of our existing workforce.
We support all employees to realise their full potential by working from a strength-based perspective and continuing to build positive cultures. This Action Plan outlines practical and measurable activities that focuses on key areas: attract and recruit, retain and build capability, leadership and accountability.
Overall, the Action Plan builds capacity for each of us to integrate Cultural Integrity, foster inclusiveness, and embrace and celebrate our differences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s cultural ways of learning, being and doing. In doing so, we live our values, empowering all employees to apply their skills, ideas, perspectives, and qualities, so that all can flourish.
This Action Plan supports the implementation of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2019–28, Future of Education Strategy, Education Directorate Strategic Plan 2022–25, and the Directorate’s Commitment to Cultural Integrity.