City for working and learning

Employability and Skills - Our vision

We help drive Belfast’s economic growth by supporting residents, employers and organisations to strive for innovation and excellence and creating pathways to growth and employment.

We focus on:

• developing strategic growth areas,
• driving learning and educational attainment, and
• designing and delivering programmes to support employability.

We’re keen to work with businesses and organisations to help them:

• recruit employees,
• explore work placement opportunities, and
• develop their workforce.

We want to work with and learn from organisations that are supporting residents to:

• access training
• develop their skills and confidence
• find employment

If you're a Belfast-based employer and would like to benefit from our employability programmes, register your interest.

Register as an employer with the Employability and Skills Programme

Belfast is a city of Working and Learning, and you can find out more about the key areas of work that support employability and skills development:

• Belfast Labour Market Partnership
• Employability and Skills Support for contractors, developers and investors
• Gateway to Choices
• Digital Badges
• Training and Support to get people into Employment, and support those in Employment

Support your employees to develop their careers

We can work with employers to deliver a support programme which will give employees the training and support they need to achieve qualifications to progress their careers.

Employment skills conference on 22 January 2024

Building an inclusive labour market: opportunities, challenges, and solutions conference took place on Monday 22 January 2024 at Ulster University. 

Aligning with key policy and strategic priorities, including 10X and The Belfast Agenda, this employability and skills conference focused on fostering inclusive growth and addressing economic inactivity. The conference was delivered in partnership with NICVA and the Belfast Labour Market Partnership.