Deadline: 30-Jun-24
The Northern Territory (NT) is seeking applications for the Flexible Workforce Solutions Fund to encourages business and industries to collaborate on projects to attract and retain the skilled workforce they need.
The objective of the Fund is to provide grants to business and industry that will promote workforce attraction and retention in priority sectors across the Territory to address critical workforce shortages.
Funding Information
If you're an eligible Northern Territory (NT) business, you can get up to $200,000 for projects and activities that address workforce shortages and gaps in the NT.
Eligible Activities
You must show how your project or activity does one of the following:
- Contributes to regional industry workforce solutions
- Contributes to seasonal workforce strategies
- Leverages new technology or innovation
- Delivers direct, in-country worker recruitment services.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, you must:
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An Eligible Recipient:
- Is a Territory Enterprise (either a for-profit or not-for-profit business); and
- Is a legal entity (including a sole trader or partnership trading under a business name registered in the NT) that held as at the date of commencement of the Fund and continues to hold a valid Australian Business Number (ABN); and
- is operating in the Northern Territory, providing its services wholly or substantially in the Northern Territory for at least six months prior to submitting an application for Funding; and
- Has a significant permanent presence – maintains an office, facilities or other permanent base within the Northern Territory; and
- Carries a public/general liability insurance policy of not less than $10 million; and
- Demonstrates in its application financial viability and that it has financial capacity to complete the project being funded within specified timeframes; and
- Is a Business Consortium – that is, there is more than one participant intended to join together to carry out the project; and
- Is not an Excluded Recipient.
- The Department reserves the right to decide in its discretion if an Applicant is an Eligible Recipient.
For more information visit Northern Territory.
For more information, visit https://grantsnt.nt.gov.au/grants/nt-flexible-workforce-solutions-fund