Our approach and values

We have a clear purpose.

We are the State Shapers. This is the place to be if you want to make a big difference to Queensland. We’re thinking ahead and acting now to set Queensland up for a better tomorrow.

We’re the department that future-senses. Queenslanders rely on us to scan and make sense of the economic road ahead. We’re the economic development department, relied upon to work with industry, the community, and researchers to bring about and sequence the big economic shifts. We live in a community, not just an economy. Securing our liveability while we develop our economy is challenging, but essential.

Partnerships with our customers and stakeholders are important to us, as we work to deliver policies, programs and services that support industry while reflecting the needs of the broader community

Our workplace culture

Our workplace culture is important to us. We are a high-performing department of approximately 1000 employees, with offices located throughout Queensland. We have enthusiastic people making a difference in cities and small towns, by the coast and in the outback. We support each other to go further together. We live by our guiding principles and channel our passion for our work into real benefits for Queensland.

We also value responsiveness. To work with us you need to be agile and open to change. Our role profiles are indicative and may flex in response to changing departmental goals, priorities and activities, not to mention to better align to your own strengths as you learn and grow with us.

Our guiding principles

We value candidates who connect to our purpose and want to lean-in to our Guiding Principles, bringing their best to their role.

Our guiding principles are how we achieve our purpose and priorities:

• Hearts in, hands on: We are passionate and get to work
• Find a way to done: We take accountability and finish the job
• Have a crack. Learn. Repeat: We take appropriate risks, have a bias for action, learn from the outcomes and continuously improve
• Go further together, steer the way: We work collaboratively, but use our influence to get outcomes
• Be surprisingly helpful: We deliver unexpected quality of service to our colleagues and our stakeholders

Why join team State Shapers

We want you to bring your best to work every day. You will have job security, flexibility and learning and career growth opportunities. We’ll help you learn new skills and become more valuable in the job market. We are also building a workforce that’s diverse, inclusive and where everyone’s strengths are used to help us better stand for our Queensland community in everything we do.

We are State Shapers

This is the place to be if you want to make a big difference to Queensland. Nowhere else offers you the chance to work with an organisation leading on projects as far-reaching and varied as renewables and decarbonisation, the infrastructure needed for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and liveability.

We’re a passionate team

The people you work with are passionate about achieving big things together. We have enthusiastic people making a difference across the state. We live by our guiding principles and channel our passion for our work into real benefits for Queensland. We recognise the enormous privilege of living in Queensland, working for Queenslanders.

It’s a career, not a job

We’ll help you learn new skills and become more valuable in the job market. We are also building a workforce that’s diverse, inclusive and where everyone’s strengths are used to help us better stand for our Queensland community in everything we do.

We focus on your strengths

What you bring to the team is important. We design jobs using our individual and collective strengths. We know that your skills, knowledge, personality traits are essential for our delivery of our priorities and outcomes. We are high performing and live our Guiding Principles, focussing on our strengths to find a way to done.

At the department we:

• value understanding your motivation.
• leverage your strengths through positive performance engagement and management conversations.
• promote opportunities for all learning and development, including on the job learning, learning through others, and professional development (including Study Assistance)
• have flagship accelerated leadership development programs to grow our leaders.

Your wellbeing matters

We genuinely focus on employee health and wellbeing, and believe it is a shared accountability for everyone. We look after ourselves and each other to create an environment where everyone feels safe and included.

This includes:

• an Employee Assistance Program for yourself and immediate family members
• employee access to our online Mental Health Hub
• Fitness Passport membership to a variety of gyms, fitness facilities and pools for a low fee

We respect, protect, and promote human rights in our work. We take domestic and family violence (DFV) seriously and ensure support for our people and work to prevent DFV and foster a culture of respect and gender equality in the workplace. We’re proud to be accredited by White Ribbon Australia for our efforts to prevent violence and support employees affected by domestic and family violence.

We are a supportive and flexible environment

We are agile. We care about our purpose and people. We understand that being flexible in our approach delivers outcomes. We also understand the importance of being supportive and having plenty of benefits to create a great work-life balance.

At the department, you can:

• have flexible work practices to enable work-life balance. Some roles are eligible for accrued time leave and time off in lieu.
• expect your strengths will be match with our changing priorities to flow our employee’s energy where it’s needed
• choose your superannuation fund (which includes income protection) and receive employer contributions of 12.75% regardless of your employee contribution.
• salary package superannuation and other benefits using a range of dedicated providers.
• access a variety of leave entitlements, including parental leave, cultural leave, and purchased leave. There’s also pro-rata access to your long service leave after seven years (pro-rata) of employment and 13 weeks long service leave after 10 years.
• take 4 weeks annual leave with 17.5% leave loading, and 5 weeks’ leave and 14% leave loading for positions based in the North and West Queensland.
• apply for recognition of prior service for your sick and long service leave if you’re eligible