EmployNZ was established in the year 2000 with the specific goal of providing high quality training and social services for the Bay of Plenty region. Since then, we have grown to be a multifaceted organisation offering a range of education programmes, employment placement and support, Youth Services and social services in the communities we operate in across the Bay of Plenty, Waikato and Auckland.
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EmployNZ Limited is a Private Training Establishment registered and accredited by New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) to provide education and training, pursuant to the Education and Training Act 2020 and holds Level 2 Social Sector Accreditation Standards through the Ministry of Social Development.
Since 2000 EmployNZ’s Education Division has grown through acquisition, merger, additional funding requests and has also had provision transferred from other Providers to provide continuation of the provision when other Providers have closed down.
Our Social Services Division has grown by responding to stakeholder and community needs and tendering for the various services that will provide the solutions for those needs for those we are working alongside.
Vision, Values and Purpose
Our Vision
As acknowledged in our story, EmployNZ was gifted our vision statement by kaumatua Tamati Tata in 2014 to ensure that everything that we do contributes to the positive change to the lives of our students, clients, and their whanau.
“Te Taumata Oranga – We Change Lives”
Our vision has become our challenge and our reason for being. It guides what we do and how we approach our work and the people we serve every day.
As an organisation we are driven by our vision and acknowledge that fulfilling this commitment requires extraordinary innovation, compassion and attention to detail.
Our Values
- Be Accountable
- Focus on Success
- Committed to Making a Difference
- Talk Openly and Honestly
Our Purpose
To provide a supportive learning environment which inspires our students and clients to achieve their educational and employment goals.
Vision and Purpose – Our Reason for Being
EmployNZ’s vision, purpose and strategic direction is founded and grounded in the belief that EmployNZ exists to provide life changing education and social services opportunities that serve the best interests of our students and clients as they navigate towards employment. Student and client wellbeing, engagement and pathways are our core focus as they prepare for the next steps in their pathway towards employment.
This belief underpins all aspects of our relationships and operations and the certainty of our vision and purpose is the catalyst for the deliberate actions that we have embedded throughout all of our processes, practices and interactions in the student journey. EmployNZ is led by people with a deep passion for creating positive change. Our expertise in the education and social service fields has seen our organisation flourish, and our leadership remains as passionate now as ever, led by the following whakataukī, ensuring our focus on the people we support is constantly centered and upheld:
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.
This focus on students, clients and our aspirations for their wellbeing and pathways drives us to constantly reflect on and review student and client achievement and pathways alongside those who have not experienced the same successes so we can celebrate the successes and further support and improve how we can move towards equity and success for all.
Learning from our past so we can plan a better future for our staff, students and clients.
Strategic Direction and Intent
EmployNZ has a Strategic Direction and Intent document which is used to plan and communicate what it is that we are setting out to achieve for our students, clients and stakeholders.
At the core of our planning is our Vision, Purpose Values and our reason for Being. Everything, we do is based on our belief about what it is that we are here to achieve for the people working, studying or accessing services at EmployNZ.
EmployNZ has planned into our future and communicate our aspirations for us all through a series of desired outcomes for a range of Strategic Outlooks.
Strategic Outlooks
The EmployNZ Strategic Outlooks (50, 10, 5 & 3 Years) encapsulate what it means to bring effect to our vision in the context of a series of outlooks designed to inform those involved in planning EmployNZ’s strategic direction. Our outlooks are written as a series of desired outcome statements which communicate the intent and aspiration of the EmployNZ founders and the challenge EmployNZ accepted when we were gifted our vision from kaumātua, Timoti Tata.
The EmployNZ BHAG is grounded in the aspiration that EmployNZ will become an internationally recognised education and social service organisation that transcends generations and responds effectively to the ever-changing needs of our learners, clients, local employers, and stakeholders. We will continue to have working relationships with tangata whenua in the rohe we operate and will be contributing to community, and hapu and whanau strategic goals and aspirations for their people because they will be integral partners and guide EmployNZ at all levels of our organisation.
We envision a dynamic, innovative, and responsive organization that thrives on growth and expansion, while remaining deeply rooted in our communities and having a whanau focus and feel. We will serve our rangatahi, young Pacific Peoples, and all those who have left or are leaving school, those who need support securing and staying in employment and those rangatahi who need social services to help navigate and support them through their years of 15 – 24.
We aim to achieve this by continuously adapting and improving our programmes and services, fostering strong partnerships, and working with people on staff who want to contribute towards the EmployNZ kaupapa. We aspire to be a catalyst for positive change, empowering people to become independent, reach their full potential, and contribute to their whanau, community, Aotearoa and abroad.
If you would like to learn more about these Strategic Outlooks, please ask your tutor and they will introduce you to the staff that can walk you through the full document.