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Albury-Wodonga is one labour market with two public sector systems
Albury is in New South Wales and Wodonga is in Victoria. People live on one side of the Murray and work on the other. Albury Wodonga Health employs staff in both hospitals under one cross-border health service. A NSW focus-capability letter and a Victorian key-selection-criteria response are both normal documents in this city, and they are not interchangeable.
Serving Albury-Wodonga and clients across Australia. The portal decides the pack. iworkfor.nsw.gov.au means NSW grades and focus capabilities. careers.vic.gov.au means VPS grades and key selection criteria. Sending the NSW letter to a Victorian panel fails before the experience is compared.
The NSW side: clerk grades and focus capabilities
NSW vacancies located in Albury use the NSW Public Sector Capability Framework. The groups are Personal Attributes, Relationships, Results and Business Enablers, plus People Management when the role manages staff. Clerk grades run 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 and 11/12, then Senior Executive bands. The role description names the focus capabilities. The application is usually a résumé and a letter, or targeted questions, lodged through iworkfor.nsw.gov.au.
Albury state work is regional service delivery: health interface, education, community services, primary industry, transport and justice programs that cover the Riverina border. A Grade 5/6 or 7/8 example should show a caseload or a local project. A Grade 9/10 example should show a function. Do not write it as a Sydney central-agency brief, and do not write it in Victorian VPS language because you live in Wodonga.
Some health-corporate roles on the Albury campus are NSW Health positions and use health awards or NSW public sector grades as the advertisement states. Clinical roles inside Albury Wodonga Health follow the health service. Read the employer line before you pick the framework.
The Victorian side: VPS grades and key selection criteria
Victorian vacancies located in Wodonga use careers.vic.gov.au. Grades run from VPS1 to VPS7, with executive roles above. The VPS Capability Framework informs the key selection criteria. Domains include Meaningful outcomes, Enabling delivery, Authentic relationships and People leadership. Proficiency is Foundational, Applied, Accomplished or Leading. The position description lists the criteria. You answer those criteria in a separate document, in a cover letter, or as questions in the form, as the ad instructs.
Wodonga VPS work is the Victorian regional program: health interface, education, community services and justice on the north-east of the state. A VPS4 example and a Clerk Grade 7/8 example can describe similar seniority and still need different headings, different length and different capability names. Translating one into the other is a rewrite, not a find-and-replace of 'NSW' with 'Victoria'.
The Victorian public sector values can appear as a criterion. Answer with an example. A one-page APS pitch is a third system again, for federal vacancies. It is not a substitute for either state's pack. Services Australia and other Commonwealth employers in the twin cities follow APSJobs when the role is APS.
Albury Wodonga Health, one service and two hospitals
Albury Wodonga Health is a cross-border public health service. Albury Hospital and Wodonga Hospital are both part of it, with different services on each campus. Clinical résumés have to name the campus and the unit. Emergency, medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and community health are not one paragraph. Registration belongs on the file.
Because the service crosses the border, applicants sometimes assume one state template covers both campuses. It does not. Clinical employment follows the health service's process. A NSW Health clerk-grade letter and a VPS letter are for corporate or departmental vacancies that say so. Nurses, doctors and allied health should use the clinical document the health service asks for, with the campus identified.
Experience at one campus is relevant to the other only when you describe the acuity and the team. 'Cross-border health' as a slogan, with no unit, gives the panel nothing to prefer. Community health and smaller sites in the service need their own name as well.
Bandiana, the two universities, and which document to send
Army logistics training is based at Bandiana, on the Wodonga side, including Latchford Barracks. ADF postings are not résumés. Civilian, contractor and APS roles in warehousing, maintenance, training support and professional services are. A defence résumé leads with the function, the authorisation and the outcome, in words a civilian reader can score. APS civilian roles use APSJobs and, when requested, a one-page pitch against the Integrated Leadership System. That pitch is not an iworkfor.nsw.gov.au letter and not a VPS criteria pack.
Charles Sturt University's Albury-Wodonga campus and La Trobe University's Wodonga campus recruit professional and academic staff on university forms. Two universities in one urban area means two processes. Say which campus. A professional staff achievement can support a later public sector application. It still has to be rewritten to the state's criteria.
Private employers include manufacturing, food plants and freight operations on both sides of the river. Those résumés show the operation and the result. AlburyCity and the City of Wodonga use council forms, which are a further process on top of the two state systems. Count the portals before you reuse a file: NSW state, Victorian state, federal, health service, university, council, private.
Industries and employers
Two state systems
Albury NSW roles use clerk grades, focus capabilities and iworkfor.nsw.gov.au. Wodonga Victorian roles use VPS grades, key selection criteria and careers.vic.gov.au.
Albury Wodonga Health
One health service, two hospitals. Clinical documents name Albury Hospital or Wodonga Hospital and the unit. Departmental corporate roles still follow the state that employs them.
Bandiana and the campuses
Civilian defence résumés for Bandiana show the logistics function. APS roles use a federal pitch when asked. Charles Sturt and La Trobe use university forms.
- Albury Wodonga Health, Albury Hospital and Wodonga Hospital
- NSW Government roles located in Albury
- Victorian Public Service roles located in Wodonga
- Latchford Barracks and Army logistics training at Bandiana
- Charles Sturt University Albury-Wodonga and La Trobe University Wodonga
- AlburyCity and the City of Wodonga
Services for Albury-Wodonga
NSW and Victorian applications
Focus-capability letters or VPS key selection criteria, matched to the portal on the ad.
Resume writing
A résumé for the health service, a state role, Bandiana or a campus application.
Government applications
How NSW, Victorian and federal public sector documents differ.
Healthcare roles
How a two-campus health service résumé should name the site.
Pitch versus criteria
Why a one-page federal pitch is the wrong file for a state criteria pack.
Other cities
Bendigo explains Victorian grades for that city. Wollongong explains NSW grades for the Illawarra. Melbourne and Sydney have their own pages. This page is the border: both systems, plus Albury Wodonga Health.
Closest pages: Bendigo, Wollongong.
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