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Enhancing Regional Skills for Economic Growth and Employability

The CHIETA Regional Skills Forum aims to identify strategic skills development issues, gather input from stakeholders, discuss grants for 2013-2014, and update the Sector Skills Plans. This program is targeted towards CHIETA companies, organized labor, government departments, and accredited providers.

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Enhancing Regional Skills for Economic Growth and Employability

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  1. REGIONAL SKILLS FORUM: JULY 2013

  2. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Purpose of RSF • Identify strategic skills development issues within the region • Obtain input from stakeholders within the region (particularly employers, organised labour and targeted government departments) into the Sector Skills Plans (SSP). • Provide feedback on the WSP-ATR & PP 2013-2014 • Discuss the process for the Discretionary Grants (Pivotal and non-pivotal) for 2013-2014 • Target Group: • CHIETA companies: SDFs/ HRD Managers • Organised Labour representatives within CHIETA companies • CHIETA Chamber members • Government Departments • Public FETs and HETs and CHIETA accredited providers

  3. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability RSF Programme

  4. REGIONAL SKILLS FORUM: JULY 2013 Sector Skills Plan Update

  5. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Outline • CHIETA Sub-sectors & Chambers • The importance of the SSP • SSP Update process • OFO & Occupational Profiling

  6. Chambers & sub-sectors

  7. SSP guides what we do DGs & Strategic projects

  8. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability SSP Update milestones

  9. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Organising Framework for Occupations • What is the OFO? • Coded occupational categorisation system used for identifying, reporting and monitoring skills demand and supply in the South African labour market • get updated annually with input from industry • All learning programs, occupations and interventions identified in the SSP have to be aligned to the OFO

  10. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Organising Framework for Occupations • Why the OFO? • Adds value to skills planning and implementation • Provides common language for occupations • Frames jobs in the form of occupations • Groups occupations into successfully broader categories and levels based on similarity of tasks, skill and knowledge

  11. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability OFO & Occupational Profiling • Job titles more consistent and specific to the output of a position • Profile of an occupation broader and informs the position profile and job description • Good profile of an occupation provides the basis for the qualification design • Occupational and individual skills survey based on • occupational profile data → correct OFO alignment and mapping • CHIETA 1st Occupation Profile Dictionary(Dec 2012) to be updated in 2013

  12. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability OFO & Occupational Profiling • Challenges with the OFO Petroleum • Analyser Mechanician (specialised trade but not list of trades) Pharmaceutical • Validation Technician (being mapped to Quality systems manager) • Need to work the OFO to properly categorise Chemical industries occupation • Need for more stakeholder participation and input

  13. BREAKAWAY GROUP DISCUSSIONS

  14. Breakaway questions • What are the major considerations effecting/impacting on the sub-sector/s in the region? What are the implications for skills development? • What are the main skills needs in the sub-sector/s? • Skills shortages? Specific areas current employees require training? • What are the constraints in the supply of skills in the sub-sector/s?

  15. Breakaway questions (Cont) • What are the skills interventions needed by this sub-sector? (Consider current & planned) • What partnerships (eg industry & public FETs, Universities & UoTs) need to be built/strengthened to address the skills needs? • What community initiatives related to the sub-sector/chemical sector are taking place in the region?

  16. Guidance to breakaway groups • Break into groups based on your sub-sector; if cross-cutting (eg govt), you choose • Group facilitator has been allocated • Note-taker has been allocated • Each group to provide brief feedback to plenary of top 10 points emerging. Group to choose reportee • Venues for groups

  17. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability To make further input on SSP, occupational profiles /OFO please contact:kmoroane@chieta.org.za mplasket@chieta.org.za

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