JIVE - Creating Change for Women & Girls in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology

JIVE Project Objectives

JIVE is a partnership of organisations across the UK which has developed new ways to tackle the issues of the under representation of women in SECT sectors, across education and industry. JIVE has inﬂuenced thousands of people throughout the the partnership – young women choosing the subjects they study; careers professionals changing the advice they give; lecturers adapting how they teach; employers changing their company policy and practice; women choosing to return to work in science, engineering, construction and technology.

The Project Partners deliver across seven key objectives:

Women SECT Returners
To empower and enable a minimum of 600 qualified women to return in SECT employment using a variety of tools (modular re-entry programmes, technical upskilling, fellowships, employer placements and support through networking and mentoring). We will also provide additional upskilling for those already in the industries (80 women) This will reduce the loss of expertise in SECT areas and making talent available to the sectors and meeting the economic priority of returners.
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Networking & Mentoring
To provide support to women through networking and mentoring, strengthening existing membership organisations, and embedding mentoring in identified SECT Sectors. This includes support to women seeking to set up their own enterprises.
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Employer Consultative Services
To engage a minimum of 150 employers in consultative services in how to implement gender equality in their HR practices for the participation and advancement of women. This includes industry, academia, research councils and sector skills councils. We will offer a range of gender equality tools (culture analysis tool, work life balance, company mentoring, returners schemes) and support progress to achieving ‘good SECT employer’ badging. This fights discrimination and perceptions held by employers and tackling vertical and horizontal segregation.
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National Resource Centres
To pilot two National Resource Centres for Women in SECT in Scotland and Wales. The centres will offer information based on extensive mapping of positive action opportunities and funding opportunities in the respective countries, and levels of participation of women in SECT occupations in the region/country. The centres will also offer advisory services and best practice solutions to employers and women in the respective countries.
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SECT Employment Pathways
To develop employment pathways for women in SECT from school to work by building local collaborative partnerships in three regional centres (Yorkshire & Humber, North West or East and the South East) and Wales, between combinations of organisations drawn from schools, colleges, universities, work based learning providers (Sector Skills Councils, Learning & Skills Councils, SETPoints, Welsh Assembly, Higher Education Institutions and employers). To explore the barriers to progression in SECT for women from school to work and from craft to professional levels. To mainstream recruitment, retention and progression initiatives within the partnerships.
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Raise the Profile of Women
To raise the profile of women in SECT to breakdown gendered occupational assumptions, challenge parental attitudes and empower women to remain and progress in the sectors, using innovatory media products, such as documentaries and TV drama, and sector champions, profiling role models and identifying and promoting experts.
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Underpin the Project Activities
To underpin the project activities through research, development, products and evaluation.
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