Tō mātou arotahinga mō te tau e heke mai ana | Our focus for the next year
Over the next year we will continue to progress the work that is already underway. A number of our year one actions will become overarching guiding principles for our future work.
Our guiding principles
- Communicate analysis and insights on workforce and skills issues to stakeholders, including through Local Insights Reports, the Marlborough environmental scan, and engagement.
- Collaborate on education to employment initiatives across the region, such as supporting the Education to Employment broker, schools, and industry to establish relevant academies in Marlborough secondary schools.
- Influence efforts across all our focus sectors to help transition to a more resilient, low emissions economy, contributing to the Government’s target for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
- Advocate for local data collection, presentation, and insights that are relevant to Marlborough, including Māori/iwi data.
- Connect to the Te Tauihu Intergenerational Strategy, including by collaborating with the Nelson Tasman RSLG on Aquaculture.
- Advocate for Mā Māori, Mō Māori, ki a Māori solutions to workforce and skills issues.
Our year 2 actions
Our year 2 actions build on the actions we have completed over the last year. We have taken this opportunity to update the actions about industry collaboration to take a wider, cross-industry approach across multiple businesses. This change has been driven by what we have learnt in the past year.
Marlborough as an attractive place to live and work
- Action 1.2: Collect data from industry on how many people are required and the necessary skills and attributes.
Career and learning pathways
- Previous Action 2.2: Identify one industry to collaborate with who is ready, willing, and able to trial actions to identify and communicate the career and learning pathways available in Marlborough.
- Revised Action 2.2: Work across industries to establish a pilot or working group that will trial actions to identify and communicate the career and learning pathways available in Marlborough.
Perceptions of industries and careers
- Previous Action 3.2: Identify one industry to collaborate with who is ready, willing, and able to trial actions to improving perceptions of their industry and career opportunities.
- Revised Action 3.2: Work across industries to establish a pilot or working group that will trial actions to improve perceptions of their industry and career opportunities.
Connections between schools and industry/education providers
- Action 4.4: Broker introductions between schools and industry to promote opportunities for collaboration. RSLG members may broker introductions based on contacts, support others who are best placed to do this such as the Education to Employment broker, and communicate opportunities such as careers events, programmes that link school students with industry (Gateway, Trades Academy) etc. through our communications to stakeholders.
- Action 4.5: Lead work with post-secondary education and training providers in Marlborough to identify solutions to ensure our young people are informed about what they offer.
Everyone in the region is aware of career and training opportunities
- Previous Action 5.3: Identify one industry to collaborate with who is ready, willing, and able to trial actions to communicate career and training opportunities.
- Revised Action 5.3: Work across industries to establish a pilot or working group that will trial actions to communicate career and training opportunities.
Enabling equitable outcomes for Māori through education and work
- Action 6.4: Work in partnership with iwi/Māori to support their aspirations and objectives for solutions to workforce and skills challenges.
Focus sectors
- Continue to support our focus sectors to develop and implement their workforce plans in collaboration with WDCs.
Last updated: 20 June 2023
