Jobs Tasmania Strategic Plan 2021-2024

Jobs Tasmania will be:

• Solutions focused – we start with the outcome we want, and work back to find a way to deliver the results
• Evidenced – not anecdote-based decision making
• Patient – we listen, we relate, and we bring people along
• Transparent – we are clear and fair
• Informed – we know, or we know who knows, or we will find out
• Connected – we join the dots, share the knowledge and networks
• Collaborative – we work with stakeholders to understand, to improve practice and co-design solutions.

State of the economy and the labour market

• The Tasmanian economy has been one of the strongest performing in the country.
• Labour and skill demand for key industries was high before COVID-19 but it has now been further exacerbated due to constraints on migrant supply and labour mobility more generally.

Premiers Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council Final Report

• The Premier's Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council (PESRAC) Report chapter on Job Services and associated recommendations provide the rationale and framework in which Jobs Tasmania and the local network of Regional Jobs Hubs has been created and will operate.
• The Premier’s 2021 State of the State address and the ‘Working Tasmania’ announcements spell out other specific programs Jobs Tasmania needs to deliver.

Creating opportunities for particular cohorts

• Not all Tasmanians have had the opportunity to engage in Tasmania’s economic recovery.
• Women, people with disability, migrants, Aboriginal Tasmanians, young people, and older Tasmanians all face a range of unique barriers to economic participation which is reflected in labour market data and contemporary media or as advocated by the various peaks.
• Jobs Tasmania has assumed responsibility for the objectives of the former Strategic Growth portfolio to work towards addressing these issues. Other Government policies, for example the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy, interface with Jobs Tasmania’s objectives.

Regional Tasmania

• On almost all labour market indicators, regional Tasmania is not performing to the same level as metro areas.
• The Employment Partnership: Jobs Action Package has demonstrated place-based interventions, supported with the right expertise and appropriate policy and programmatic responses, can begin to address some of these barriers.

Australian Government employment services system

• The Australian Government is ultimately responsible for the Employment Services System.
• PESRAC, business and community stakeholders have all expressed concern at the performance of the system over recent years.
• A new employment services system will be implemented on 1 July 2022 – its performance will have significant implications for Jobs Tasmania.

Tasmanian education and training system

• Education and training is a key lever for increasing labour market outcomes (including productivity).
• The Vocational Education and Training system, pathways from compulsory education, the Adult Learning Strategy interface directly with Jobs Tasmania’s work program and objectives.

Jobs Tasmania will be successful when:

• We are recognised as the authoritative point of engagement on employment and workforce participation in Tasmania and have brand awareness across governments, community and business.
• More Tasmanians have access to meaningful and ongoing work opportunities.
• Tasmanian businesses are connected to a workforce that can help their business grow.
• All Tasmanians feel supported and know where and how to engage with the labour market or formal education and training at different stages of their life/career.
• Improved employment opportunities and outcomes in regional Tasmania.
• Services and supports relating to employment and/or education or training are understood, integrated, and aligned.

We measure ourselves and our stakeholders’ impact to inform us on what we keep doing, stop doing or start doing. We work with our Learning Partners to help us do this.