CORE
COMPETENCIES
PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS / TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
CORE VALUES
GOJ
Competency
Model
Seeing the Big Picture

The ability to anticipate possible future developments and events and take account of wider considerations to develop long-term implementation strategies that maximise opportunities and add value to the services provided to customers and citizens.

Sub-competencies include, but are not limited to:

  • Visioning
  • Horizon scanning
  • Systems thinking
  • Strategic thinking
  • Analytical thinking
  • Organisational awareness
Professional Bands
BAND 1
  • Applies knowledge and prior experiences to job situations.
  • Seeks opportunities to upgrade technical and professional skills.
  • Incorporates the mission, vision, objectives and strategic goals of the MDA in work efforts.
  • Identifies and escalates issues that warrant immediate attention in an effective manner.
  • Actively seeks and shares experience to develop understanding and knowledge of one’s work and that of the team.
  • Develops understanding of how own and team’swork supports achievement of the MDA priorities.
  • Seeks to understand how the services, activities and strategies in the MDA work together to create value for the customer.
  • Gathers information from a range of relevant sources inside and outside the work unit/department to inform one’s work.
  • Creates systems to ensure that team activities are aligned to MDA priorities.
  • Responds to emerging issues and trends that might impact or benefit one’s and team’s work.
  • Develops an understanding of own area’s strategy and how this contributes to MDA priorities.
  • Links the performance goals of team to Unit/Department goals to ensure implementation of government policy.
  • Shapes strategies and plans that help put into practice and support the MDA’s vision and long-term direction, including those shared with other Agencies.
  • Creates policies, plans and service provisions to meet citizens’ diverse needs based on up-todate knowledge.
  • Adopts an MDAwide perspective to ensure alignment of activity and policy.
  • Brings together views and perspectives of stakeholders to gain a wider picture of the landscape surrounding activities and policies.
  • Incorporates relevant issues relating to their policy area into strategic planning conversations.
  • Promotes a sense of purpose and direction and inspires confidence and trust in the future direction of the MDA.
  • Clarifies priorities and goals and builds a shared understanding of the connection between government’s priorities and the strategic objectives of the MDA.
  • Designs processes and recommends approaches/strategies to ensure that the objectives and outcomes of the MDA lead to the implementation of government policy.
  • Creates systems or opportunities for celebrating high performance.
  • Creates and articulates a powerful alternate vision of the future.
  • Develops an in-depth insight into the dynamics and issues surrounding the MDA and Government’s priorities, including political, economic, social, environmental and technological and legal impacts.
  • Shapes and explains the role and purpose of the MDA in delivering priorities for the public good.
  • Makes high-risk strategic decisions that have significant consequences.
  • Anticipates potential obstacles and develops contingency plans to overcome them.
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Seeing the Big Picture
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Driving Continuous Change and Improvements
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