Day to day
+Policy analysis and briefing papers`
+`Program design, commissioning and evaluation`
+`Stakeholder consultation and co-design`
+`Legislative review and reform advocacy`
+`Data analysis and social research translation
SOCIAL WORK CAREERS
Government and public policy.
Social workers in policy roles shape the systems that everyone else practises within. Their frontline understanding of how policy lands in real lives makes them powerful policy analysts, program designers and advocates.
THE WORK
What this practice looks like
Where you could work
+Federal and state government departments`
+`Peak bodies and advocacy organisations`
+`Royal commissions and inquiries`
+`Think tanks and research institutes`
+`Local government social planning teams
YOUR PATHWAY
Getting there with the IHM BSW
The IHM BSW builds structural critique alongside direct practice skills, preparing graduates who can move between frontline work and the policy roles that reshape it.
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