Providing professional learning and development

Providing full and accessible support for science and engineering professional development.

Providing professional learning and development

The Government Science and Engineering (GSE) profession’s learning and development strand provides science and engineering professional development support for people working in government. To maintain science and engineering as a core part of government skills and capability, we need to continue investing in our people. The profession is looking to increase the amount of science and engineering learning offers that are available to government users, from those who are new to technical topics all the way to experts. We want to make our learning more accessible, ensuring it can be used by civil, public and crown servants alike and accommodates different learning styles and personal circumstances. Opportunities for learning and development range from an online personal development tool, to on-the job placements and secondments, and post graduate level apprenticeships in Systems Thinking.

The key underpinning document for learning and development in government is the GSE career framework. This framework highlights the wide range of potential GSE careers and the 4 GSE job families:

It explains the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to be an effective scientist or engineer within a government context and provides a career anchor to the GSE profession for individuals not currently in science or engineering roles. This framework will be refreshed in 2021 GSE to ensure technical skills are known and understood and associated guidance produced for departments, managers and individuals on using the GSE technical skills.