ITAG provides the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of FRSITO with expert advice and recommendations in the development and review of; unit standards and qualifications, learning resources, assessment tools, and the articulation and cross crediting of complementary qualifications.

The key responsibilities of ITAG are to:

• ensure new unit standards for development are fulfilling a need
• provide technical advice into the development of new unit standards
• make final recommendations to the Board on endorsing new unit standards
• Development and review of appropriate Accreditation and Moderation Action Plans that define specific industry requirements relating to the 8 accreditation criteria for the accreditation of providers.
• Development and review of appropriate Moderation System/s.
• Monitoring the development and publishing of the National Moderation report and practice/assessment notes.
• Approval of documentation to gain accreditation from NZQA to register work place assessors.
• Oversight of the training and registration of assessors and moderators.
• Oversight of the development of assessment instruments (eg. Common Assessment Tasks, RUSAT) that can assist in achieving consistent assessment.
• Definition of specific RCC criteria.