Foundation partners with Accenture
Link-up to improve locals' digital skills
Fri 05 October 2018, 12:19|Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation has started working with Accenture to develop a series of groundbreaking projects designed to improve the employability and digital skills of local people.
The Foundation will roll out Accenture’s ‘Skills to Succeed Academy’, a free online employability training tool, and their ‘Accenture Digital Skills’, a series of free online courses that teach people the digital skills required to thrive in employment.
The new partnership also seeks to support local people who are returning to work after an extended career break, looking to re-skill, or currently not in education, employment or training. The course will help people make sense of the ever-evolving jobs market to help them to be successful in finding long-term, sustainable employment. Over a one-year period, the programme will upskill up to 3,000 local people.
The Foundation is also supporting Accenture to develop a brand-new online tool called ‘Envision’, which is due to launch later this year. This innovative piece of technology will recommend suitable careers for people based on their transferable skills and experience, and then direct them to a live jobs board where they can apply for the position immediately. This will include positions at our new stadium, its suppliers, local employers and at Accenture.
The newly-funded programmes will run in conjunction with the service the Foundation currently provides for local people out of Percy House, a major community enterprise, employment and skills hub located on Tottenham High Road. As well as giving local people one-stop access to vocational training and job opportunities from a range of employers connected to the Club, it delivers over 95,000 hours of community development, health, enterprise, education and sports programmes every year to those living in the Club’s local area.
To date, the Club and its Foundation has created 1,694 sustainable, long-term education and employment opportunities for local people through the new stadium development scheme and sport-led regeneration of the area. Jobs have been delivered across a range of industries, including retail, education, construction, hospitality, IT and security, with all going to local people.
Sarah Ebanja, Chief Executive at Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, said: “We are delighted to be working alongside a globally-renowned business such as Accenture and using their cutting-edge tools, alongside our existing training methods to upskill local people.”
Find out more about the Employment and Skills work the Foundation does here.