City of Newcastle
City of Newcastle is investing almost $400,000 in training programs designed to help locals make the most of Newcastle’s emerging economic opportunities.
From assisting businesses to become more inclusive, to building resilience to market disruptions including COVID-19, the training programs seek to close skills gaps in the local workforce.
Funded under City of Newcastle’s NewSkills program, the training will be delivered by specialist training providers through workshops, self-paced learning, intensive programs and mentoring over the next 12 months.
NewSkills follows on from the City’s highly successful Product Development Mentoring Program which provided 15 local businesses with training and business to business mentoring on how to develop tourism products that leveraged Newcastle’s unique offering to appeal to visitors to sustain and grow Newcastle’s visitor economy.
The ‘New Move’ program is funded by the City of Newcastle.
It calls talented, community-minded professionals to move to Newcastle, with a $10,000 grant offered in exchange.
Applicants have to show how they can commit to working in the city and inspire new ways of thinking to create future economic opportunities.
It’s believed the program will create more than 75 local jobs and drive $25 million in economic output.
This weekend, 70 of 460 applicants travelled to Newcastle at their own expense to participate in a curated ‘Famil’ itinerary which showcased the city from dining to theatre, landmarks to business .
Deputy Lord Mayor Declan Clausen, believes it was a great success.
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City of Newcastle
Over 70 talented, skilled and entrepreneurial individuals from across metropolitan Australia were acquainted with Newcastle this weekend as City of Newcastle narrows down to a final 30 people incentivised to relocate as part of an Australian-first economic stimulus program.
The ‘New Move’ program will give 30 community-minded skilled professionals who want to relocate to Newcastle a $10,000 grant that must be spent in the Local Government Area. In return, the applicants will commit to work with the community to develop local skills and inspire new ways of thinking to create future economic opportunities. Independent economic modelling shows the program will create 75 local jobs and drive $25 million in economic output.
City of Newcastle
City of Newcastle is helping local businesses gain the skills to make the most of Newcastle’s emerging new economic opportunities with a $385,000 investment in its New Skills Program.
From helping local businesses to embrace the digital age, developing ways to be more accessible or improve energy efficiency, the program aims to address a wide range of industry specific skills gaps over the next two years.
Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said the New Skills Program will provide opportunities for people to learn new skills and innovation which is how we make businesses more competitive and encourage emerging industries which will create more local jobs.
The council will consider ideas from 10 separate groups, to improve technology and infrastructure.
“Lots of Novacastrians live with disability every day, and unfortunately, lots of government services and the way that our city is designed doesn’t always cater for those needs.” – Declan Clausen, Newcastle Deputy Lord Mayor.
“The City of Newcastle is our co-funding client today, working in conjunction with the Australian government.” – Dominique Fisher, Paddl Co CEO.
The group with the winning idea will receive $25,000 in funding, to help make it happen.
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