Resources and energy employers in the Northern Territory can take advantage of an initiative aimed at attracting workers in difficult to fill jobs.
The NT Government has commenced its ‘Welcome to the Territory Incentives’ program – a seven year, $19 million initiative aimed at attracting around 2600 people to the Territory from interstate and retaining them for at least five years.
The targeted and strategic incentives are available to women aged between 20 and 39 years, and people aged between 55 and 65 years, who can apply for jobs on the high priority list.
A number of sector roles are listed among the high priority occupations list, including a number of offshore positions, production manager (mining) along with various management and human resources roles.
The incentives include the New Territorian Relocation Bonus, Local Spending Incentive and the Five-year Retention Bonus.
For more information on the available incentives, click here.
To register your business for the program, click here.
The incentive program follows a record year for mineral production in the Territory – $4.49 billion in 2017/18, up 24 per cent on the previous year, which was a record at $3.63 billion.
In other sector news for the Territory, Arafura Resources recently announced it would to build a Separation Plant for its Nolans Rare Earth Project in the Northern Territory, at an estimated total cost of US$680 million.
Located approximately 135 kilometres north of Alice Springs, building the Separation Plant, is likely to begin in late 2019 and is tipped to boost the company’s operational workforce for the Nolans Project to around 370.
Territory’s STEM plan revealed
A five year plan focusing on the skills needed for the jobs of the future has been launched in the Northern Territory.
Identifying the importance of school children learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), the STEM in the NT strategy is aimed to ensure Territory students are equipped with necessary future skills.
An estimated 75 per cent of the fastest growing occupations worldwide requiring skills and knowledge in these fields.
The strategy is a response to the National STEM School Education Strategy, an Australia-wide push to help school kids build stronger skills in these areas.
The Department of Education has partnered with the University of Adelaide to provide teachers with support to increase their skills and knowledge in digital technologies.
In addition, the strategy will work with schools to:
- increase teacher capacity to maintain currency in digital literacies
- ensure all young people in the NT are equipped with coding skills as an emerging essential literacy
- expand enterprise education and innovation programs so students receive advice and training in newly emerging industries
- implement a system-wide culture of data driven practice in STEM education
- implement professional learning opportunities for teachers and educators in STEM education and pedagogy
AMMA is looking for interested companies to contribute to the newly-developed primary school-based Bright Future STEM Program. The national program will be aimed specifically at 9-11 year old girls and boys, providing them exposure to female STEM professionals and encouraging an interest in a STEM career. A number of events are being proposed for 2019 in Queensland, Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia. For more information, contact AMMA’s Program Manager, Elspeth Jeffrey, at [email protected].
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