Upskill your Pacific workforce

Benefits for business include increased productivity, a more skilled and future-ready workforce, and a positive impact on your people’s resilience, capability, confidence and wellbeing, leading to improved staff retention and engagement.

At the end of the course your people will gain external accreditation, as well as greater confidence and more skills in the specific course area.

Each course has a specific set of outcomes, such as financial management knowledge, including budgeting and goal-setting, or skills to navigate digital processes and tasks at work and in everyday life.

They are designed to support people in less skilled jobs to move into higher level jobs with their existing employers, or be better placed to pursue further training or other employment if their existing jobs end due to the changing nature of work or the ongoing impacts of COVID-19.

No. Your investment is the time your participating employees will be away from their core roles while they do the course.

Courses generally run for two hours per week over eight weeks, but there is flexibility and your education provider will work with you to discuss what is best for your business. This includes finding solutions for your people on different shift patterns or working on-site.
 

Yes. This is open to all Auckland employers with a Pacific workforce in the following industries: manufacturing (including food and beverage), construction and infrastructure, healthcare and transport/logistics.

Priority will be given to these industries on the basis that they have a high proportion of Pacific workers and are important to Auckland’s economic recovery.

This is part of the government’s Auckland Pacific Skills Shift, targeted at the entrenched inequities affecting Pacific Aucklanders.

Pacific Aucklanders will make up a third of the region’s working-age population by 2050. Many are now employed in construction, health, manufacturing and warehousing/logistics. Young Pacific workers are over-represented in retail, hospitality and tourism sectors – the hardest hit by COVID-19 – and generally, Pacific Aucklanders are over-represented in less-skilled, lower-paid roles in critical industries, including industries on the frontline of managing the impacts of COVID-19.

We are working with employers and industries with large proportions of Pacific workers, and welcome all interest - you can still apply if you only have a small Pacific workforce.

While most participating employees are Pacific people, we have the flexibility to include other employees for this training. This will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, so talk to us.

You will receive a phone call from Auckland Unlimited or your education provider, so we can ask some questions about your workers, their learning needs and whether you meet the criteria.

If you do, we aim to confirm eligibility and match you up with an education provider within five working days. From there, you will work directly with the education provider on the details.

They are short courses resulting in externally accredited qualifications. They can work as a stepping stone to further training or study, or to progress to a higher level job, and incorporate digital literacy, problem-solving, teamwork and communications skills, learning to learn and exploring what is possible.

The training will be delivered by experienced training providers. If you have an existing relationship with a participating education provider, we can work with you to request their support as a priority client.

No, as long as the eligibility criteria is met.

Yes. This is a four-year programme. We encourage you to register your interest so you can enter the programme when your organisation is ready.

Tātaki Auckland Unlimited is Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s economic and cultural agency, that works to enrich the economic and cultural life of the region and its people, creating opportunities and experiences for all.

It is an Auckland Council-controlled organisation that works to help Auckland businesses thrive, working with industry to ensure the region has the workforce and skills it needs for the future, as well as ensuring all Aucklanders have access to economic opportunities, including quality jobs.