Background
The Liverpool City Region Local Skills Improvement Plan is designed to address the skills gaps in the region by ensuring that training is closely aligned with employer needs. A collaborative approach will be continually developed bringing together employers and training providers through structures such as Industry Learning Partnerships (ILPs). The focus is on co-developing practical solutions, building capacity for training, and addressing both immediate and long-term skills challenges in key sectors including manufacturing, construction, logistics, professional business services, visitor economy and cross-cutting skills areas such as skills for sustainability and net zero.
The key objectives of the Liverpool City Region Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) as outlined in the report published in 2023 include:
- to improve the responsiveness of post-16 education and training to meet local economic skills needs, focusing on Level 3 and higher skills
- to place employers at the heart of the skills system, ensuring that education and training providers align more closely with the current and future skills requirements of local businesses
- to address recruitment difficulties and skills gaps within priority sectors such as construction, manufacturing, logistics, and the visitor economy
- to promote the adoption of lifelong learning, upskilling, and reskilling, particularly in response to technological changes, green skills, and emerging economic sectors
• to improve employer engagement in curriculum development and promote more flexible, modular learning approaches - to boost inclusivity by ensuring training is accessible to a more diverse workforce, including efforts to address gender imbalances in specific industries
Marketing objectives
As part of our ongoing work in this area, we have an immediate need to engage a marketing specialist to support us in the creation of a range of digital and hard copy collateral, in order to:
- ensure the number of employers engaging in the scheme is maximised
- raise awareness amongst employers from target sectors and motivate them to get involved
- encourage key education providers across the Liverpool City Region to invest into the idea LSIPs and the benefits of ILPs
- promote the LSIP and associated ILPs as adding value to, and enhancing, existing initiatives and partnerships
- encourage and promote successful and seamless partnership working between the private and public sector and facilitate ready communication between these groups
- promote, cascade and amplify good news stories and case studies to decision-makers and the wider public
- positively influence the Liverpool Combined Authority commissioning arrangements for future skills provision, to create tangible and meaningful outcomes for learners, employers and providers as well as the local economy and as part of the growth agenda
- create a positive and useful foundation for any subsequent phases of the work
Tender submission requirements and deadline
Tenders should be submitted in writing via email to Samantha Barker, Director of Policy and Skills at Liverpool Chamber, at Samantha.Barker@liverpoolchamber.org.uk, no later than Friday 28th February 2025 at 17:00 and will be judged on the following criteria:
a) experience of, and successful completion of, previous similar commissions
b) understanding of the brief (to be determined at interview, to be held on the afternoon of Monday 3rd March 2025 (time tbc)
Submissions that progress to interview stage will be notified on the morning of Monday 3rd March 2025.
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