Strategic responses to corruption executive short course
This workshop is targeted at senior executives who have operational responsibility for work areas that have significant vulnerability to corruption.
Public sector agencies have implemented a range of corruption prevention and risk management strategies with varying degrees of success. This course uncovers some of the reasons why corrupt conduct continues to occur despite considerable efforts to prevent it. It also provides senior leaders with approaches they can take to help manage their organisation's vulnerability to corruption.
Who should attend?
- Secretary or Deputy Secretary or equivalent
- Public Service Senior Executives Bands 1, 2 and 3 or equivalent
- Local Government GM/CEO, Deputy GM/CEO or Director or equivalent
- CEO, Deputy CEO or top tier senior executive from a state-owned corporation, board or trust (in NSW)
- Vice-Chancellor, Provost, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Registrar, Faculty Dean or equivalent in a NSW university.
Topics covered include:
- Corruption and the control environment
- Control considerations
- Organisational corruption control maturity
- Mechanisms of control
- People factors in corruption prevention
- Understanding transaction costs and the risk implications in make/buy decisions
- Process design and control
- Risk management
- Accountability
- Organisational structure and control
- Information and barriers to visibility
- Reinventing governance
- Better practice
Course details
Dates: 2-5 September 2025
Delivery mode: Face-to-face
Duration: 9am - 5pm each day for four days
Location: Sydney NSW 2000
Scholarships
The ICAC offers a small number of scholarships to attend the course. Portfolio secretaries have been invited to nominate staff for consideration from within their portfolio agencies. Local government general managers and university vice-chancellors have also been approached to nominate staff from their organisation to apply for a place. We will not be seeking individual enrolments.