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Learnings from Wellington iRSLG Wellington interim Regional Skills Leadership Group – August 2021
Wellington at a glance
Population: 542,000 of which 12% Māori
GDP: $43,426 M (2020)
Top 5 industries by GDP
• Professional, Scientific & Tech Services
• Central Gov Admin, Defence & Safety
• Finance
• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Property Operators & Real Estate Services
Top 5 jobs by number of employees
Iwi:
• Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
• Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa
• Central Government Admin, Defence & Safety
• Rangitāne o Wairarapa
• Health Care and Social Assistance
• Ngāti Toa Rangatira
• Education and Training
• Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te
• Accommodation and Food Services
Ika, including Te Ati Awa
• Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga
RSLG Co-chairs: Daphne Luke and Glenn Barclay
• Te Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai
Regional Lead: Helen Steven
A Wellington regional labour market overview • Demand remains strong for qualified and skilled people to fill a variety of technical and professional roles. • Employers report low numbers of applicants and there has been a sharp increase in advertised jobs. • Demand for skilled and unskilled labour is also expected continue in the short term, according to the Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion. • However there are still many people seeking work. There are 14,900 unemployed, of which the largest group is young people 15 -24, and 14,700 underemployed. • There are high reported shortages of a range of roles in the construction sector, and in infrastructure. • The health sector is experiencing shortages across roles and is being impacted by border closures. Shortages of nurses and midwives are a particular issue. • IT, or digital skills sector is also affected, particularly for highly specialised, experienced and senior roles. • Manufacturing has an aging workforce and has high levels of skill shortages, and is increasingly seeking workforce directly from secondary school. • Hospitality reports shortages across the sector, with chefs in particular demand. • The agricultural sector is the Wairarapa is experiencing labour shortages.
Focus of the Wellington Interim RSLG
The group has:
• Set the principles to guide future work
• Developed a stakeholder engagement plan and mapped key stakeholders
• Heard about iwi initiatives and the region’s Māori economic development strategy
• Heard from key sectors and employment initiatives within Wellington’s sub-regions: Kāpiti, Porirua, Wairarapa, the
Hutt Valley, Wellington City
• Heard from industry bodies, tertiary providers, employers and workers in two key sectors with skills shortages:
Health sector, in particular the unregulated or kaiāwhina workforce, and
Advanced digital skills sector
• Reported local insights and key regional themes in its local insights reports, available here
• Learned about the workforce supply and demand, and education and skills profiles of our region – this data is
available in a supplementary slide pack.
Our principles Our pou form the backbone for a strong and agile regional economy which enables participation and opportunity for its people, and grows and nurtures world class skills relevant for now and the future. These are: • Developing a highly skilled and diverse workforce • Supporting sustainable and resilient employment • Connecting and engaging communities • Utilising and promoting cutting edge technology • Demonstrating strong leadership and advocacy
Stakeholder engagement plan
We’ve identified:
• The purpose of our stakeholder engagement – the ‘why’
• Stakeholder sectors and key stakeholders within – the ‘who’
• Which of these we should:
- have an active relationship with
- hear from
- inform
• Our principles for stakeholder engagement:
• being a good Treaty partner
• clear ownership
• reciprocity
• transparency
• clear purpose
• efficiency
• avoiding stakeholder fatigue.
Stakeholder map
Key Wellington Regional initiatives
• the Wellington Region Workforce Development Plan (September 2019) focuses on:
• Maintaining the region’s competitive advantage, and prioritising development and retention of
technology skills
• Optimising all of the working-age population, and supporting employers to tap into this, looking beyond
traditional worker cohorts
• Spreading jobs across the region to mitigate transport and accommodation constraints
• the Wellington Regional Growth Framework outlines a spatial plan that describes a long-term vision for how
the region will grow, change and respond to key urban development challenges and opportunities. It is
governed by the Wellington Regional Leadership Committee , which also has oversight of the Wellington
Regional Economic Strategy, and Regional Economic Recovery, currently in development. This is a joint
committee comprised of the mayors, iwi representative and government ministers, and provides governance
to key regional initiatives or activities of significance to the RSLG.Regional Māori economic development strategy and key iwi initiatives • Te Matarau a Māui is the economic development strategy for Māori in Te Ūpoko o Te Ika - the Greater Wellington region. It provides a point of co-ordination for the economic activity underway at local, regional, iwi and organisational levels, and speaks to the opportunities available to develop fresh ideas. The strategy is here. • The iRSLG also heard about economic development activities being undertaken by Te Rūnanganui o te Āti Awa and Ngāti Toa which include a range of education and support services for tamariki and rangatahi.
Our sub-regions
Porirua’s key features:
• rapid population growth
• a younger than NZ average population
• a large population of Māori and Pasifika
• Ngāti Toa Rangatira are mana whenua
• increased economic investment through ongoing and proposed projects
• a significant number of people employed in the industrial sector (27 per cent)
• disparity, and areas of high need and poor social outcomes
• a local plan, the Porirua City Employment & Skills Plan 2020 which focuses on:
- supporting young people in the transition from education to employer
- maximising the impact and economic benefit of Porirua’s regeneration
- attracting and retaining business to the area
- co-ordinating leadershipOur sub-regions Kāpiti’s key features: • a noticeably older demographic than the rest of the region • construction as its largest employment sector • a high proportion of jobs in Health Care and Social assistance • a higher than national average of self-employed people (28%) • nearly half of residents travel outside the district for work • Te Wānanga o Raukawa, delivering local and distance education • The Kāpiti District Economic Development Strategy 2020 – 2023 that focuses on strengthen partnerships, supporting key sectors, growing skills and capability, being open for opportunity, positioning the Kāpiti Coast ( Find the strategy here: https://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/our-district/economic-development/strategy-for- supporting-economic-development/) • a developing Workforce Development Plan, a key commitment of the strategy (due August 2021) • the Māoriland Charitable Trust that is running youth-led employment initiatives • the Work Ready Kāpiti programme which works to equip local youth with skills for employment
Our sub-regions
Wairarapa’s key features:
• a rural economy with a focus on primary industries, including agriculture, forestry, viticulture and apiculture
• strong growth in housing and construction
• key health care and social assistance sectors
• notable visitor, digital, and manufacturing sectors poised for growth.
• there are plans underway for a community water reservoir, the Wakamoekau Community Water Storage Scheme
• The Wairarapa Workforce Plan (August 2020) which focuses on
- key sectors: primary, construction, manufacturing, visitor, health and technology
- strengthening training in these sectors and also in business and technology skills
- building the skills pipeline and strengthening transition from school to learning/work
- maintaining a focus on NEETS
• See the plan here: http://www.growwairarapa.nz/post/wairarapa-workforce-plan
• An active Wairarapa Skills Leadership Group is overseeing implementation of the plan (represented on the Wellington
RSLG)Our sub-regions The Hutt Valley’s key features: • a large and growing manufacturing and engineering sector • emerging media and digital technology industries • Science and research – home to Callaghan Innovation and GNS • a large number of healthcare jobs • Home to two public tertiary education providers, Open Polytechnic and Weltec • Rapid urban growth • the Lower Hutt $455 million RiverLink, a major urban revitalisation project scheduled to get underway in 2021. • The new Lane Street Film Studio is in the final stages of Phase 1 construction. • The New Zealand Campus of Innovation and Sport, due to open late 2021. • Major housing development underway and planned • Te Āti Awa are mana whenua
Our sub-regions Wellington City’s key features • Central government as its biggest employer with 17,000 employees • Public Administration and Safety as its biggest employment sector, and Professional, Scientific and Technical Services second • A growing creative technology and media services sector, and is a leader in screen and digital technologies. • An important tertiary education sector, with three universities, a polytechnic, over twenty private training enterprises, and the national offices of several industry training organisations. • The Capital and Coast District Health Board is one of the city’s major employers. • Housing affordability has dropped sharply in recent months and the city is experiencing a severe housing shortage. • A recent report showed young professionals had concerns about living and working in Wellington based on a perceived shrinking commercial sector, housing affordability, water infrastructure, and old and over- subscribed roading networks.
Existing sub-regional plans and strategies Several plans and strategies exist in the region. We have analysed the workforce plans for the Wellington Region, Wairarapa, and Porirua, the economic development strategies (Kāpiti Coast and the Wellington region Maori Economic Development Strategy – Te Matarau a Māui). Commonalities are: • Optimisation of the available working population (including NEETs and older workers) • Building a workforce pipeline, and alignment of education with skills needs • Close collaboration between agencies, providers, industry and employers • Career upskilling and reskilling, as well as entry level skill development and work readiness • Managing, supporting and enhancing the transition from school to employment • Partnerships with iwi and other key stakeholders • Attracting and retaining businesses, and skilled workers to regions and the city • Mitigation strategies for transport and geographical work barriers
A closer look at a key sector: health and aged care • There is a wide variety of skilled and well-paid roles in the regions health sector that are not well known. More work is needed to promote the available pathways and transitions to heighten awareness and broaden the workforce diversity. • The training system for the professional (regulated) health workforce is highly complex. MoH works with regulators, providers, and stakeholders nationally to support effective workforce planning. • DHBs are the biggest single employers, with around 10,000 employees across the Wellington region. They are focusing on reskilling and upskilling the existing workforce, and increasing Māori and Pasifika participation. • The non-regulated kaiāwhina workforce is mostly employed by private companies, or not-for-profit health providers, contracted by the DHBs or MoH. This workforce include roles such as carers and support workers providing assistance in-home or in residential or aged care facilities. It is mostly female, and older. • The pay equity settlement in 2017 has increased retention in the region’s kaiāwhina workforce through better pay and a qualifications framework. However barriers exist to moving through training pathways. • Whitireia Polytechnic, based in Porirua, provides New Zealand's only tailored Bachelor of Nursing Māori and Bachelor of Nursing Pacific programmes. • The aged care sector struggles to attract and retain staff, particularly registered nurses.
A closer look at a key sector: digital skills
• Almost 14% of all NZ advanced digital skills jobs are in our region, and make up 6% of all the region’s jobs.
• Wellington is home to a rapidly growing eco-system of small to medium exporting digital businesses, a large
public sector, and large well known businesses such as Xero and Datacom. The gaming sector is increasingly
important and growing quickly, based mainly in the Hutt Valley.
• Skills demands are high for both technical and non-technical skills such as communication, creative skills
and critical thinking.
• The region also hosts several providers of digital skills training.
• The sector has been highly reliant on immigration, which has filled most new jobs in the last five years.
• Industry has identified a large ‘skills mismatch’, and employers have been reliant on immigration to fill mid
to senior level roles rather than training and development of graduates, and is lacking training
• A Skills work stream is underway as part of the Digital Skills Industry Transformation PlanCOVID-19 insights – impacts on sectors • Several of our region’s key sectors have been impacted by border closures which have exacerbated existing skills shortages. The health sector , aged care, IT or digital skills sector, manufacturing and hospitality sectors have all been particularly impacted. • Regular Local Insights Reports (LIRs) have been prepared which discuss these and other impacts in more detail. You can find these on MBIEs website here .
What’s next… Building a regional workforce plan
What’s next? • Each Regional Skills Leadership Group is responsible for producing a regional workforce plan by June 2022. • The plan will set out the labour and skills aspirations for the regional over the next 5 -10 years and will drive regional change and inform central government.
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