Local training and employment opportunities in Dunedin can be anything from volunteering, industry skill courses, fees-free schemes, literacy and numeracy help.
The LSV programme is a free, fun, hands on and challenging 6 week training course. It gives you new skills, increases your confidence, and improves your chances of getting a job.
Tree House provide 13 week Work and Income funded training and job search programmes.
Skills for Industry programmes are training courses tailored to the needs of industry and employers.
All Skills for Industry Training for Work programmes have a maximum duration of 13 weeks.
The Dunedin Training Centre supports learners to gain NZQA Qualifications so they can progress to employment or further training.
Fees-Free scheme or training for work for 18+ registered with Work and Income.
Fees-Free offered through Otago Polytechnic for 16-25 year olds.
Fees-Free scheme. Kickstart – to employment is a 17 week programme offering a mixture of workshops
Fees-Free scheme. Build a career in the trades and technical fields and help shape the world.
Fees-Free scheme.
We deliver quality training for STAR/Gateway Programmes and Vocational Pathways into secondary schools.
The Careers NZ website has a great range of resources to help you make informed choices about learning and work.
If you have recently left school, or you are on a benefit or working, and you are thinking about starting study, StudyLink can help you work out if study is right for you and how you'll support yourself.
We seek to celebrate, support and promote volunteering in the Otago Community and to help make volunteering a positive and rewarding experience for all involved!
We provide support for all people with an intellectual disability.
As a Specialist School Sara Cohen School enrols students from 5 to 21 years of age.
This wrap around service provides young people guidance and support to help them into education, training or employment.
The Dunedin Youth Link supports young job seekers aged 18 to 24 years into education or employment.
The new Otago Secondary Tertiary College provides day release opportunities to school students in Dunedin.
The Warehouse Red Shirts in Schools is a Gateway programme based on the Customer Service Award.
Offering Assistance to Students in Schools (OASIS) is aimed at students wanting a career in the hospitality/food industry.
Refocus Youth Support for Dunedin schools is founded by Rowan Leoni to help youth in schools become upstanders against all forms of bullying either at home, online, in school or in social circles.
Fees Free scheme. Youth Grow is a ‘Life Ready – Work Ready’ programme for 16-25 year-olds.
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa provides fully resourced classroom based and home based learning courses.
The Fees- free/ Youth Guarantee scheme is designed to provide 16-19 year olds with an opportunity to study towards NCEA Level 2 aligned with the Vocational Pathways.
Workbridge aims to enable people with disabilities to participate and experience equal opportunities in the labour market.
Over 40 apprentices are employed or mentored by 4Trades under the modern apprentice scheme.
Fees-Free for 16-19 year olds or training for work for 18+ registered with Work and Income.
Get the skills for a job you’ll love!
We offer a wide range of distance learning programmes up to NCEA Level 3.
Count Me In is a project to help Māori and Pasifika aged 16 to 18 that have left school without NCEA Level 2 or equivalent qualifications, the best chance at gaining a Level 2 qualification.
We’re New Zealand’s Navy, Air Force and Army. Together we protect New Zealand’s interests at sea, safeguard peace and stability within our neighbouring regions and further afield, and help others in times of need with agile air operations across the world.
If you are looking for a leading centre for scholarship and learning and an exciting place to be a student, then you are in the right place.
Our tutoring team have extensive industry experience and will happily provide free, no obligation career advice and answer all of your questions.
Dive Otago is New Zealands largest dive centre delivering tertiary level diver training.
Work Talk is a four week (48 hour) intensive programme which prepares migrants for entering the New Zealand workforce.
We provide free assistance to adults wishing to improve their literacy in reading, writing, maths and a range of other areas.
A three-year, full-time Bachelor of Teaching (ECE) Programme which leads to teacher registration.
Wellcare Training NZ is passionate about creating innovative and flexible learning and development solutions for health and community services.
Our participants learn the background using our interactive video distance lessons.
Want to map out your career? Not sure if your chosen career pathway will lead to a job? Check out the resources on our webpage to find out if you’re on track.
Red Cross offers comprehensive First Aid courses.
St John is registered with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).
The NZQA website has links to Accredited Industry Training Organisations
Modern Apprenticeship Scheme - on the job training for 16 to 21 year olds, ready to take NCEA Level 3 or 4 (will continue to run for existing apprentices for 4 years).
The Māori Education Trust provides scholarships for Māori students in Secondary School and Tertiary education.