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Skills Tasmania

Eligibility for the JobTrainer Fund

Who is eligible to apply for funding?

To be eligible to apply, applicants must be:

  1. a Skills Tasmania endorsed registered training organisation (RTO). Where the RTO’s endorsement is restricted, the restrictions apply.
  2. scoped for the qualifications, courses, or units for which they are applying, and the scope must include Tasmania as a delivery site.

What are the learner eligibility criteria?

The following learners are eligible for funding:

  1. job seekers, who, for the purposes of the JobTrainer Fund, are:
    1. individuals out of work
    2. individuals who are in receipt of income support payments
    3. individuals expected to become unemployed as agreed bilaterally between the Commonwealth and the relevant State.
    4. individuals who are underemployed, which is defined as employed people who would prefer and are available for more hours of work than they currently have, including part-time workers.
  2. young people aged 17 to 24 (including school leavers), regardless of their employment status.
  3. people enrolling in an aged care, childcare, or disability care qualification, regardless of age or employment status.
  4. people enrolling in digital skills qualifications, regardless of age or employment status.

All eligible learners will be eligible for a training place regardless of their prior qualifications.

Eligible learners can undertake more than one JobTrainer qualification, course or skill set funded training place.

An individual currently enrolled at a Tasmanian school, as defined by the Education Act 2016, is not eligible.