Objective

To provide road and transport authorities with national strategies and knowledge transfer to ensure sustainable levels of capability including skills attraction and development.

Key themes

• National workforce capability strategy
• National marketing plan for careers in road authorities
• Best practice guide for road authorities in addressing skills shortages and building capability
• Review of tertiary education courses and possible development and delivery of post graduate courses to meet the specific needs of road authorities

Task force

The objective of the capability task force is to provide Austroads member authorities with national strategies and knowledge transfer to ensure sustainable levels of capability, including skills attraction and development relating to technical skills specific to road authorities and related road industry organisations. These skills include road and bridge design, construction and maintenance, traffic management, project delivery and project management and road safety.

Contact Details

Chairperson of the Capability Task Force:

Peter Mitchem
Director, Technical and Information Services
VicRoads

Administrative Support:

Julie Cooper
Austroads Program Assistant
VicRoads
3rd Floor, South Building
60 Denmark Street
Kew VIC 3101
Phone: +61 3 9854 2896
Fax: +61 3 9853 0341
Email: Julie.Cooper@roads.vic.gov.au

Approved Projects in 2007/08