Measuring our success

• Lead whole-of-government economic and social policy delivery and reform.
• Lead the public-sector response to significant state and Commonwealth issues, policy challenges and projects.
• Deliver policies and programs that promote fairness, inclusion and participation of Victoria’s culturally diverse communities.

• Advice contributes to the achievement of government policies and priorities relating to economic and social outcomes, intergovernmental relations and emergency management.
• Decrease experiences of discrimination.

• Strengthening inter-agency communication, interjurisdictional cooperation and international engagement to deliver outcomes
  for Victorians.
• Anticipating and responding to changing environments and scenarios, including emergency events and local impacts of global conflicts, e.g. natural disasters and community cohesion.
• Managing resourcing, including supporting the effective transfer of knowledge and adapting to changing priorities with staffing.
• Ensuring services are delivered effectively, efficiently and in line with the government’s Fiscal Strategy,
  in an environment where interest rates, material costs and services costs are rising.

• Improve outcomes and services for First Peoples through prioritising actions to enable self-determination, including advancing treaty, protecting and promoting cultural rights, recognising land and native title rights and responding to the Yoorrook Justice Commission Final Reports.
• Address trauma, support healing and stop systemic injustice.
• Provide culturally safe systems and services and transfer power and resources to communities.

• First Peoples in Victoria have increased control over decisions that impact their lives.

• Implementing nation-leading reform that has little precedent to follow in Australia.
• Operating in a dynamic and complex environment, including developments at a national level and potential impact on Victoria’s self-determination reform agenda.
• Higher number of native-title claims lodged and more contested hearings has increased the complexity for achieving land-justice objectives.

Objective

• Foster and promote a high-performing public service.
• Ensure effective whole-of-government performance and outcomes and support the effective administration of government.
• Protect and promote the values of good governance, integrity and accountability across the public service to foster and maintain public trust in government.
• Maintain compliance with government advertising and communication guidelines to support effective financial management, probity and accountability of government advertising.

• Support for Cabinet, committee members and Executive Council is valued and informs decision making.
• Agency compliance with government advertising and communications guidelines.
• Victoria’s electoral system is supported by an accurate and secure electoral roll, electoral services and conduct of fair and impartial elections.
• Provision of high-quality legislative drafting and publication services.
• Advice contributes to the achievement of government policies and priorities relating to public sector governance.

• Adapting systems and business practices to respond to changing demands and expectations regarding government services and citizen engagement in government.
• Responding to consistent themes relating to governance, accountability and integrity in key integrity agency reports.
• Dealing effectively with other levels of government.
• Strengthening the way that the public service facilitates the movement of staff to provide career opportunities and mobility options.