National Water Skills Audit - Australian Water Association

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Glossary of Terms and AbbreviationsABSACERAIGANZSICANZSCOAQFATSEAWAB-HERTCEETCEOCMACOAGDEEWRDESTDEWHAFTEGSAIAIAAICE WaRMIWALGANCVERNILSNWCNWINRMRTOSACESSERAToRVETWENWICDWSAAWSGAustralian Bureau of StatisticsAustralian Council for Educational ResearchAustralian Industry GroupAustralian and New Zealand Standard Industrial ClassificationAustralian and New Zealand Standard Classification of OccupationsAustralian Qualifications FrameworkAustralian Academy of Technological Sciences and EngineeringAustralian Water AssociationBusiness and Higher Education Round TableCentre for the Economics of Education and TrainingChief Executive OfficerCatchment Management AuthorityCouncil of Australian GovernmentsDepartment of Education, Employment and Workplace RelationsDepartment of Education, Science and Training (now DEEWR)Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the ArtsFull-Time EquivalentGovernment Skills AustraliaIrrigation Australia (Previously IAA and ANCID)Irrigation Association of Australia (now IA)International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources ManagementInternational Water AssociationLocal Government AssociationNational Centre for Vocational Education ResearchNational Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders UniversityNational Water CommissionNational Water InitiativeNatural Resources ManagementRegistered Training OrganisationSouth Australian Centre for Economic StudiesSurveys of Employers who have Recently AdvertisedTerms of ReferenceVocational Education and TrainingWater Education Network (AWA)Water Industry Capacity DevelopmentWater Services Association of AustraliaWater Sub-Group (COAG)ivICE WaRM • National Skills Audit (Phase One) Report
Executive SummaryBackgroundThe Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has initiated a large programme of work todrive the water reform agenda. These 13 projects covering four priority areas are scheduledto report to COAG meetings on 3 July and 3 October 2008. One of these is the NationalWater Skills Audit and Strategy, this project.The Commonwealth Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA)is responsible to COAG for oversight of the project. Implementation was assigned to ateam assembled and led by the International Centre of Excellence in Water ResourcesManagement (ICE WaRM), with external advisory and reference groups led by theAustralian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and the AustralianWater Association (AWA) respectively.ICE WaRM is an Australian Government initiative, established in 2004 to provide a nationalfocus and international gateway for Australian education, training and research in water.The ultimate aim of the two-phase project is to develop a national strategy to address skillsneeds and gaps in the water sector, for the COAG October 2008 meeting.The first phase of this assignment, the subject of this report, is the national water skillsaudit, undertaken over an active period of five weeks, for the COAG July meeting.MethodGiven the extremely short timeframe, the assignment was conducted in three parallelstreams of activity:• A desk review and collation of existing data and knowledge, including the March 2008Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) An assessment of skills shortages in theurban water industry;• A targeted survey of a limited sample of water sector organisations, by South AustralianCentre for Economic Studies (SACES);• Analysis of secondary data, notably 2006 Census data, by the Centre for the Economicsof Education and Training (CEET).The WaterSectorThe results of these streams were then drawn together to provide a perspective of thenational water sector, to inform the strategy development.The water sector of 1990 would have been largely defined as dedicated organisationswholly within the public sector. Today, only the framework of those organisations remains;many have been corporatised, and a large part of their functions is now undertaken byorganisations wholly in the private sector, many of which are international. Those functionsare also changing, with new technologies and approaches for traditional services, andexpanding water-related skills areas such as natural resources management. Thus definingthe Australian water sector, even as a snapshot, is more difficult.The recent WSAA report provided an analysis of their membership – the major urbanutilities. This audit was designed to extend the limits of that work to a much wider sectorperspective, including non-WSAA water-related institutions and those private sectororganisations providing significant goods and services to the water sector.For the survey, the sector was principally defined by employer category, with crossreferencingof essential roles and responsibilities. The sample of organisations approachedwas firstly drawn from corporate members of the peak industry association (AWA),excluding WSAA members and supplemented by groups or segments of the sector notwell represented among AWA membership. The structure of employment categoriesfor this survey closely followed that used in the WSAA report, so that results could beaggregated.The representative population covered by both surveys was approximately 44,400.Extending this to an estimate of the total current size of the Australian water sector issomewhat speculative, given the ‘fuzzy’ and dynamic nature of its boundaries. However,ICE WaRM • National Skills Audit (Phase One) Report
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4 Analysis of Results4.1 Combining
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6 Next StepsThe first phase of this
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ReferencesAttikiouzel Y 2008, ‘Li
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Water Industry Capacity Development
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Appendix ATerms of ReferenceICE WaR
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PART A STATEMENT OF REQUIREMENT (Se
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