INDIANAPOLIS — Today, April 13, 2023, EmployIndy, Marion County’s Workforce Development Board and local workforce intermediary, announces the launch of a new three-year strategic plan anchored by its mission to guide the local workforce ecosystem and make strategic investments to promote equity and remove barriers to quality employment for underserved and underrepresented residents.

“This new strategic plan builds on the work of EmployIndy since 2016 to scale quality interventions that lead to economic mobility and is centered on ensuring equity for a diverse and skilled workforce,” said Marie Mackintosh, EmployIndy president and CEO.

These interventions include: Career-Connected Learning to prepare students for success in the 21st-century economy by providing real-world work experiences with local businesses to inform career choices and build skills; Coaching and Training to assist students as they persist through completion of postsecondary education and or training to obtain the specialized skills needed in an evolving economy; Talent Connection, creating efficiencies for both workers seeking employment and businesses seeking workers with individualized connection services in the job-placement process; and Good Jobs that allow businesses to be competitive and thrive in the global marketplace when they invest in job quality and wage equity for their workers to prosper.

EmployIndy will also engage in Advocacy that drives Systems Change to ensure sustainability of interventions that systemically address some of the root causes for equity gaps in educational attainment, in good and promising jobs, and for Opportunity Youth.

Accountability for this work and the impact on the community will be measured– disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender– by increases in postsecondary educational attainment and the number of available good and promising jobs, and a decrease in the number of youth, ages 16-24, who are disconnected from education and or employment.

“A key priority through 2025 will be to hold our organization and those with whom we partner accountable for embracing equity,” says Mackintosh, “Not simply as cultural values but as operational norms expressed through equitable hiring practices, job access, job quality, sustainable wages and health insurance benefits.”

To achieve its strategic goals, EmployIndy is implementing changes to its organizational structure that will help the organization grow efficiently and sustainably to achieve our strategic goals. The new structure is carefully designed to support the alignment of programs and initiatives in the teams needed to oversee the strategic priorities.

To learn more about the plan, visit: employindy.org/2023-2025-strategic-plan/

About EmployIndy

EmployIndy guides the local workforce ecosystem and makes strategic investments to promote equity and remove barriers to quality employment for underserved and underrepresented residents. Our vision is for all Marion County residents to have access to services and training necessary to secure a livable wage and grow in a career that meets employer demand for talent. As the workforce development board for Marion County, guided by 24 business, civic, education and nonprofit community leaders, EmployIndy invests over $20 million in public, private and philanthropic funds for both youth and adults annually. EmployIndy stands against all forms of racism – systemic, individual, and structural – as an anti-racist organization. Learn more at employindy.org.