At IPS, we recognise that employment is more than a job, it is about creating futures through stability, dignity, wellbeing and intergenerational change. Through our award-winning Workforce Transformation Programs, IPS delivers sustainable employment, skilled workforces and meaningful employment pathways for people who have historically been excluded from opportunity.
Our programs are delivered with compassion, accountability and measurable impact.
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The IPS Workforce Transformation Programs use a sustainable employment model to provide wraparound support and deliver the core functions over the delivery period and achieve ongoing success metrics into the future.
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Sustainable Ongoing Impact

The IPS model maintains an ongoing relationship through
place-based mentoring supports and leadership development even after employment is secured, enabling individuals to return for support when employment eases, projects conclude, or life circumstances change, and to be re-connected to new opportunities as they arise.
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Industry-Embedded Employment Pathways

IPS delivery teams support workforce capability and embed safe and inclusive workplaces through leadership development, coaching and mentoring supports and diverse and inclusive practices.

Bridging The Gap between Government, Industry, Training Providers & Community

IPS works collaboratively with clients across a variety of sectors and industries to understand specific workforce needs. Driving the activation of a diverse workforce, that represents the community we all live and work in, to ensure attraction and retention of individuals to meet the ongoing needs of clients.

​Our clients include state and federal government agencies, Tier 1 employers and strategic alliances.
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• Capability Mapping
  Capability mapping for businesses and individuals, tailored development plans, contract support, advisory and design of culturally appropriate place-based mentoring.
  
  
• Program Management
  Work collaboratively with our clients to provide professional support in designing and delivering programs targeted at workforce planning through to delivery.
  
  
• Mentoring
  Empowering individuals facing additional barriers to employment, through our comprehensive mentoring support. Our program is designed to provide the skills and knowledge participants need to succeed in the workforce, while also offering valuable information for employment pathways.
  
  
• Organisational Culture
  Design and mature organisation and leadership cultural capability to cultivate highly effective teams. Achieved through detailed diversity and inclusion strategies, tailored culturally appropriate mentoring, supervisor training and upskilling, culture measurement mechanisms and change management.
  
  
• Workforce Development        
  Strategic and tactical workforce planning through employee capability assessments, creation of talent matrix and pipelines, career mapping and succession planning.
  
  
• Scalable Workforce Enabling and Activation
  Scalable and tailored workforce solutions to meet industry needs, project activation and critical skills identification. Determining future industry skills, project capability, existing capacity and workforce planning.
  
  
• Stakeholder Engagement
  Stakeholder engagement through community engagement, state and federal government consultation. Local and national sustainability initiatives, workshops and focus group discussions for consultation and understanding.
  
  

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Jackie Graham
Workforce Transformation - Executive Lead

​"At IPS we are dedicated to designing and activating holistic workforce solutions that not only elevate sustainable and diverse workforce outcomes but also foster environments where everyone can thrive."

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• Yaka Dandjoo Program | South West Gateway Alliance

  The Yaka Dandjoo Program is a legacy program designed and delivered by IPS, to provide lasting opportunities for the South West region long after the conclusion of the Bunbury Outer Ring Road project. This program provides an opportunity for Unemployed Entry Level Work Ready (UELWR) people to feel proud, confident, and secure in the knowledge that they will have a job to provide for their community and family. The program aims to create a positive impact on the mental health of people through the appropriate support and skills to allow them to be a role model for the wider community.

• Local Area Participation Strategy | Transport for New South Wales

  IPS was engaged to co-design and deliver a local area participation strategy to drive Aboriginal participation across three key transport projects in the Hunter Region of NSW. Transport for New South Wales’ (TfNSW) brief was to build a network of capable Aboriginal businesses to engage on the four projects. IPS used an authentic co-design approach facilitated by a local Aboriginal facilitator to identify a range of challenges and opportunities to improve engagement with Aboriginal businesses, job-seekers and local support services. The resulting strategy laid the foundations for embedding Aboriginal culture across the projects, and driving results through continued engagement and collaboration with local Aboriginal people. Community feedback in the initial stages has been extremely positive. TfNSW are considering this model as a foundation for other projects across the state.

• Grafton Infrastructure Project | Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Aboriginal Affairs NSW and Dept of Industry NSW

  IPS designed and delivered the workshop ‘Are you contract ready to win business with Government?’ to over 35 Indigenous businesses and community representatives in Grafton. The program and workshop aimed to identify Indigenous businesses ready to tender for the Pacific Highway upgrade from Woolgoolga to Ballina. With a focus on capability development, the workshop was a mix of information sharing and a process to assess the readiness of the local businesses. As part of the program, IPS developed a best-practice checklist to assist businesses in identifying capability gaps and requirements for working on major construction projects in NSW. Each Individual business walked away with a completed checklist and action plan to prepare and become tender ready for Government infrastructure work.

The IPS Approach

Stakeholder Engagement Specialists
We are collaborative, respectful and have a deep understanding of the distinctiveness of groups participating in any engagement. We focus on developing our methods and processes to develop authenticity, trust and a sense of equal partnerships and highly ethical approach, particularly where sensitive issues are present.

Collaboration
The IPS team will work hand in hand with your team throughout the project to ensure you are involved in every step, and actively contribute to key elements of the project from inception to completion.

Agile Project Management
IPS approach project management with an agile mindset valuing individuals and interactions, over process, collaborating throughout the project and responding to change to meet your needs.

Co-design
The IPS research team have worked with government departments, key stakeholders and the broader community on genuine co-design projects to ensure active engagement and contribution to research and evaluation projects. This is especially valuable when measuring a program’s social impact, designed to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and other groups to ensure we capture all benefits, both tangible and intangible.