Mastery helps personnel grow beyond basic job skills and moving up in rank. It prepares them for integrated service through Maritime (Domain), Technical and Social Mastery.
This ensures people progress their expertise in their fields while progressing in rank.
Navy needs qualified and experienced personnel to deliver maritime capability to the Australian Government. As people learn more and build complex skills, Mastery will move them towards a higher stage in their career. This growth is vital now and into the future to generate Naval Power. It helps Navy work as part of the integrated force in competition and conflict.
Benefits and adoption
Navy Mastery is an effort to keep skilled people who are mission-ready. It helps people focus on lifelong learning, building skills, and growing their expertise. It offers real benefits, including:
- career choice with training and development options
- greater job satisfaction
- clearer paths to promotion
- varied ways to grow, both in Navy and wider Defence roles
- job flexibility to suit important life stages.
All Navy job areas use Mastery principles and the wider Australian Defence Force is adopting the system. This enables a more integrated force with alignment between similar roles across Services.
Mastery pathways
Mastery stages build personal ability through education, exposure and experience across different settings. This starts with core tactical and technical roles in the Foundation Mastery stage. Then people work across joint streams in the Intermediate, Advanced and Master stages.
Education (structured learning)
Education gives people the skills and knowledge to carry out military tasks. It builds communication, thinking and decision-making skills. Navy values both formal and informal learning. This includes training, tertiary study, short courses and micro-learning programs.
Exposure (second-hand learning)
Exposure is learning from others by watching, asking questions and sharing ideas. It helps build skills through social learning. Activities may include:
- forums, lectures, conferences, debates
- reading and writing
- mentoring, coaching, and war gaming.
Experience (learning by doing)
Experience is learning first-hand through real actions and on-the-job decision-making. It includes postings and outside placements in industry. People build experience by taking part in:
- collective training, exercises and deployments
- maintenance and certification
- planning and administration.
Resources
For more information about Navy Mastery, please refer to the following downloadable documents: