Develop your procurement skills
These competency frameworks help you recognise your strengths and find which procurement skills to focus on for professional development.
There are two frameworks.
- For most procurement roles, there’s the Government procurement practitioner’s framework on this page.
- For those working in social services procurement specifically, there’s the Social services procurement competency framework.
Both frameworks give you:
- a full list of the skills and competencies needed at different levels
- an assessment spreadsheet to identify your priorities
- a learning guide with suggestions on how to build specific skills.
Find links to these tools at the bottom of this page.
These tools help you to:
- take a more structured approach to professional development
- build a culture of excellence where learning is encouraged
- set consistent expectations for performance in procurement practice.
How to use these resources
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Think about whether your role needs you to procure social services. If it does, use the Social services procurement competency framework.
- Complete the competency assessment spreadsheet to identify your learning priorities. This is one of the tools linked below.
- Record these priority skills in your performance and development plan and discuss with your people leader.
- Use the learning pathways guide to choose how you will learn and embed your chosen skills.
Competency framework tools
Complete the assessment spreadsheet to figure out which skills you’d like to develop for your level.
Then follow the learning guide, an interactive web tool with suggestions to build each skill set.
Learning pathways guide for procurement practitioners
The PDF lists all the competencies and skills for reference.
These resources were developed with a working group of New Zealand Government procurement and capability experts.