Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7210

The Building Women's Careers (BWC) Program will establish partnerships to drive structural and cultural change in the construction, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and digital and technology industries and sectors.

The BWC Program seeks to sustainably address structural and cultural barriers to women’s participation in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and employment.

The intended outcomes are:

• strong, diverse and enduring partnerships to develop and deliver innovative, scalable partnership projects to drive structural and cultural change in women’s participation in VET and the workplace
• increased access for women to higher-paying and skilled VET-based careers in male dominated occupations as measured by:
  • the availability and use of policies and strategies to implement and embed gender equality in VET and the workplace
  • improved availability and use of employment conditions and arrangements that support people to balance work and caring responsibilities
  • reduced and removed structural and cultural barriers, (for example poor access to ‘good flexibility’ or employee-oriented flexibility, an excess of ‘bad’ flexibility or employer-oriented flexibility, gendered occupational and industry segregation, and disrespect and discrimination) that prevent women from accessing and participating in VET and the workplace
  • an increase in the recruitment, promotion and retention of women in male-dominated occupations
• an evidence base of practical changes that can be implemented across the broader economy to reduce occupational gender segregation and increase women’s participation in VET and male-dominated industries, sectors and occupations.

The BWC Program is informed by the Employment White Paper, Working for Women, A Strategy for Gender Equality, the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce Report and extensive stakeholder consultation undertaken by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.

There are two streams of funding available.

For Stream One, you must apply as a partnership that has the following 4 organisation types as a minimum (including the lead organisation):

1. an industry employer
2. a registered union
3. a TAFE or not-for-profit Registered Training Organisation (RTO) (not eligible to be the lead applicant)
4. a community organisation, registered charity or not-for-profit organisation.

Stream One partnerships (including the lead applicant) must collectively employ more than 1000 employees within the construction, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and/or digital and technology industries/sectors.

For Stream Two, you must be a partnership that includes the following 3 organisation types as a minimum (including the lead organisation):

1. a place-based community organisation, registered charity, or not-for-profit organisation (must be the lead applicant)
2. an industry-based employer within the construction, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and/or digital and technology industries/sectors
3. and one of the following organisations:
   • an industry-based employer/s within the construction, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and/or digital and technology industries/sectors
   • an industry body within the construction, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, digital or technologies industries
   • a registered union
   • a TAFE or not-for-profit RTO
   • a not-for-profit organisation
   • a GTO
   • a local government body
   • a community organisation
   • a registered charity
   • an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
   • an ACCO.

Find the full eligibility criteria in the grant opportunity guidelines.

$54,500,000.00

Applications open 14 November 2024.

To apply, go to https://business.gov.au/bwc

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