Community workforce plans

Community workforce plans help communities, businesses, registered training organisations (RTOs) and government agencies identify workforce opportunities, challenges and priorities.

They support community-led workforce development and help align employment, training and economic development initiatives with local needs.

The Northern Territory Government supports the development of community workforce plans across remote regions of the Territory. As plans are completed and approved, they will be published below.

Plans under development

The following community workforce plans are currently being developed and will be published once completed and approved.

Barkly Region

  • Ali Curung
  • Elliott
  • Tennant Creek

Big Rivers Region

  • Kalkarindji
  • Lajamanu

East Arnhem Region

  • East Arnhem

Community workforce planning

Communities, employers, industry, training providers and other stakeholders are encouraged to do community workforce planning to better understand local workforce challenges and opportunities.

Community workforce planning provides a structured approach to identifying workforce needs, engaging stakeholders, analysing workforce data and developing actions that support local employment, workforce participation and economic development.

The following steps, tools and resources can assist organisations and communities to do a community workforce planning exercise and develop locally informed workforce solutions.

Create a plan

Follow the steps below to create a community workforce plan.

Step 1. Community context

To create a successful workplace plan, you must understand the community.

Carry out research to find out about your community's key issues and needs.

Step 2. Workforce research

Analyse workforce supply and demand:

  • Supply - find out how many people are currently working and also identify potential workers.
  • Demand - find out what jobs are currently available, the skills required and which employers are offering local work.

Step 3. Identify future needs

Identify future supply and demand, opportunities and challenges for your business and the industry in which you operate.

Step 4. Issues analysis

Analyse all of the data you’ve collected so far to identify issues that require consideration in the plan.

Step 5. Develop workforce strategies and actions

Develop a workforce action plan that responds to the issues that have been identified in the analysis.

Step 6. Implement the strategies and actions

Engage the appropriate individuals and / or organisations and work toward achieving the identified actions and outcomes.

Step 7. Monitor, review and evaluate

Monitor the strategies and actions and make changes that respond to changing workforce circumstances.

Resources and tools

For a planning process, tools and template to support community workforce planning, see the community workplace planning guide PDF (2.3 MB).

To understand local workforce, business and population characteristics in remote Northern Territory communities, see the remote town job profiles. The information is based on the NT Remote Towns Jobs Survey conducted in 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2023.

To identify occupations that are in high demand or critical to the Northern Territory economy and industry, see the NT skilled occupation priority list (NTSOPL).

See workforce data and future workforce insights on the Jobs and Skills Australia website or Department of Treasury and Finance website.

Learn more about industry workforce intelligence, workforce trends and industry priorities through the Industry Skills Advisory Council NT (ISACNT) website or a relevant industry association.

Contact

For support, email businessinfo@nt.gov.au.

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