Intensive Employment Services

Who can apply

The funder does not publish a structured list of eligible applicant types for this program. The eligibility criteria in the guidelines on the official page are the ones that count.

What the program funds

As part of its employment services reform, the Australian Government is inviting organisations via a restricted process to apply to deliver the early roll out of an Intensive Employment Service. The Intensive Employment Service is for people with complex and interconnected barriers to employment, who have been unemployed for a significant period, may need additional support to build their confidence, capacity and capability and progress towards and into a job.

That description is Department of Employment and Workplace Relations's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0 (Australian Government default open licence). Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.

What it is for

This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.

• Employment

How to apply

Applications for Intensive Employment Services are made through Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.

Apply for Intensive Employment Services on the official site

Applications close in August 2026. Government grant portals are busiest on the final day and several of them close on the stroke of the deadline, so the practical advice is to submit a day early.