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Rapid Response Skills Initiative

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Rapid Response Skills Initiative Guidelines

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Have you lost your job in the last 12 months and want to do some training to get new skills?

The Rapid Response Skills Initiative (RRSI) may be able to help. It provides funding for training for people who have lost casual, full-time or part-time work in the last 12 months due to retrenchment, business downsizing or closure.  This also includes self-employed people (sole-traders or partners in a partnership) who have closed their business.

What can I use the funding for?

There are a lot of different options that you can use the funding for including:

  • occupational tickets and licences, and/or
  • formal education and training (eg. TasTAFE, other Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers or universities), and/or
  • non-accredited training that is recognised by professional bodies, employers, and other authorities in an area of skill and employment demand - approval or otherwise will wholly be at the discretion of Jobs Tasmania.

To help you decide what training is best for you, you will get free career advice through Jobs Tasmania’s Career Connector service. If you are eligible you will be able to access up to $3000 to pay for suitable training and licences to help you find another job.

Your Career Connector service provider will be able to help you decide what training would be best for you.

Eligibility and assessment criteria

Before you apply for funding, you must consult a Career Connector service provider to confirm your eligibility and discuss the best options for using your RRSI funding allocation.

To be eligible for the funding support you must:

  1. have lost casual, full-time or part-time work in the last 12 months due to retrenchment, business downsizing or closure; and
  2. be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident with a Tasmanian residential address, or if not a Permanent Resident, you meet these VISA classes; and
  3. provide written evidence of job loss, redundancy or retrenchment in the form of:
    1. a Centrelink Employment Separation Certificate clearly stating the reason for job loss; or
    2. a notification of redundancy or job loss such as a letter/email from your employer which includes contact details for Jobs Tasmania to verify your eligibility if necessary; or
    3. written evidence of business closure such as cancelled GST registration or cancelled ABN (if you are self-employed - that is, asole-trader or a partner in a partnership).

How do I apply?

Before you apply for Rapid Response Skills Initiative funding you must contact a Career Connector service provider. They will be able to assess your eligibility and talk to you about your options.

Contact your nearest Career Connector service provider below:

North, North East and Southern Tasmania:

North West and West:

Your Career Connector service provider is available to help you with your application.

To lodge an application, apply now.

If you have any questions about Rapid Response Skills Initiative, please send an email to rapid.response@jobstasmania.tas.gov.au.