Leadership in the Public Sector Awards
Honouring the excellence and innovation of teams and organisations of all three levels of government in Victoria – Commonwealth, State and Local.
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Celebrating teams and organisations in the public sector
Leadership in the Public Sector Awards 2025 will be held August 2025 more information will be announced in early 2025.
IPAA Victoria’s Leadership in the Public Sector Awards honour the excellence and innovation of teams and organisations of all three levels of government in Victoria – Commonwealth, State and Local.
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Leadership in the Public Sector Awards highlight reel
Watch the Leadership in the Public Sector Awards ceremony highlights reel and re-live the hype, excitement and buzz of the night.
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Acknowledging the exceptional effort of the public purpose sector in Victoria in 2022
The following essay has been adapted from a speech given by Brigid Monagle, Victorian Public Sector Commissioner.
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Victoria’s public sector celebrates innovation, inspiration and impact: IPAA Victoria’s Leadership in the Public Sector Awards 2022 winners
View IPAA Victoria’s Leadership in the Public Sector Award winners media release.
Award categories
The Leadership in the Public Sector Award categories aim to celebrate the broad work of the sector that has a significant impact on the community, both now and into the future.
Past Awards
2022 Winners
2020 Winners
2019 Winners
2014–2018 winners
Award Eligibility
- Nominations can be submitted by any employee delivering government services in Victoria including all Local, State, Commonwealth organisations.
- Nominations can include projects, policies, partnerships, reforms, regulations, strategies, campaigns, programs, continuous improvement initiatives, etc.
- Nominations may be made for new, short-term, or long-term initiatives/responses as long as the criteria are addressed.
- IPAA Victoria recognises many initiatives are the result of collaborations and partnerships. Where appropriate, IPAA Victoria encourages collaborators and partners to submit a shared nomination, provided other conditions of entry are met.
- There is no limit to the number of nominations from an organisation. However a specific initiative may only be nominated once, in one category, in any given year. Unsuccessful nominations may be resubmitted in subsequent years.
- View the Leadership in the Public Sector Awards 2022 Program Guidelines here.
