About Infrastructure Cadetships
The NSW Department of Education's School Infrastructure division, is delivering new school buildings, major upgrades and maintenance strategies to ensure every school-aged child has access to high quality education facilities at their local public school. This encompasses the largest investment in public education infrastructure in the history of NSW.
Our Infrastructure Cadetship is a two-year on-the-job experience for young people in their final year of studying a relevant diploma or second last or last year of a bachelor degree. This program has provided an opportunity for young people looking to continue or commence their career in the government or infrastructure sectors.
Cadets completing degree or diploma level qualifications in Engineering, Project Management, Planning, Property, Information Technology/Computer Science, Sustainability, Procurement, Business or related areas. have been placed in roles at metropolitan Sydney and regional New South Wales.
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The Cadet experience
Under the program, participants in the School Infrastructure Cadetship program have experienced working across all functions on activities that:
Ensure our schools are at the heart of local communities, by opening school facilities through initiatives such as Share Our Space, joint use and shared use. Also focuses on innovative strategic partnerships, such as with local councils, and the development of contracts and agreements for partnerships.
Maintain internal governance, planning, policies and systems enhance overall capability and capacity towards an innovative, future-focused and sustainable infrastructure strategy that achieves the objectives of the NSW Government and meets the needs of a growing NSW population. Ensuring contracts, tenders and templates related to asset management activities including maintenance and cleaning.
Maintain schools including day-to-day advice to schools on all asset matters, maintenance program planning and delivery, capital works projects planning and delivery, community use of school facilities, school security, and demountable accommodation planning and support.
Implement infrastructure delivery of the School Assets Strategic Plan 2031 (SASP) to ensure alignment of operational infrastructure delivery strategy, with a focus on strategic and operational planning, governance and evaluation of service delivery performance. Developing strategies to ensure school infrastructure meets the needs of a growing population and enables contemporary learning and teaching.
Use Information Technology/ Computer Science to drive a reform process which supports delivery of effective infrastructure programs and responds to changing pedagogies. Includes educational service planning at a State, regional, district and local level to identify evidence-based requirements to inform decision making for future education infrastructure assets.
Develop initiatives and considerations that comply with and compliment government standards and policy involving the aspects of sustainability, compliance and environment, disability standards, facility standards and heritage management.Areas of recruitment
Under the program, School Infrastructure NSW will recruit cadets in the following directorates.