Overview
In the education context, workforce planning is a formal approach to planning, building and managing your school’s workforce structure, profile and people to achieve your school’s strategic goals and priorities and be well placed to respond to projected future needs.
This Schools Workforce Planning Guide(opens in a new window) is designed to assist you in developing, implementing, and sustaining the workforce profile and school structure that is right for your school community.
The Guide(opens in a new window) is based on feedback from principals, system leaders and education stakeholder organisations. It describes best practices in workforce planning and provides pointers for principals to plan for a workforce profile that is fit for purpose.
The Guide(opens in a new window) provides a framework that can be applied to all schools within Victoria, including large and small, rural, and metropolitan, primary, secondary, and special schools. However, the department is also developing additional specific advice for both small and specialist schools.
Related policies
- Advertising Vacancies(opens in a new window)
- Flexible Work
- Inclusive Workplaces
- Principal Selection
- Recruitment in Schools
- Salary Rates
- Special Payments
- Consultation with School Based Staff
- Student Resource Package — Managing the Budget — refer to for school budgeting
- Workforce Management — Schools
Contact information
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