Jersey Finance Maintains Busy Year For School Engagement With Launch of ‘Teacher Toolkit’

Jersey Finance has launched a new ‘Teacher Toolkit’, aimed at providing secondary school and college careers teachers with a practical resource to help students explore career opportunities within Jersey’s financial services industry.

The online Toolkit offers a broad overview of the finance industry, highlighting different career pathways and featuring additional resources for teachers and students to support informed discussions around career planning and skills development, whilst also aiming to address common misconceptions about the sector.

The launch of the Toolkit bookends a busy year for Jersey Finance’s comprehensive education and outreach programme, which has seen the team engage with hundreds of local pupils through a ramped-up series of targeted events, work placements and other initiatives.

In particular, Jersey Finance:

• Spoke to more than 320 students At Le Quennevais and Le Rocquier Schools through a series of ‘Finance Days’, supported by 11 Member firms. Since being launched in 2023, the Finance Day events have expanded to now reach more students than ever, providing a snapshot of the finance industry in a way that is interactive, exciting and relevant.
• Attended 16 separate events at eight schools, delivering presentations to students about the diverse career opportunities in the financial and professional services sector.
• Attended the Jersey Skills Show, engaging with hundreds of students during the event.

In tandem with these initiatives, this year’s ‘Life in Finance’ scheme grew significantly, attracting more than double the number of participants than it did two years ago. The scheme offers local Year 12 students the chance to undertake a one to two-week work experience placement in one of Jersey’s financial services or professional services firms over the summer.

Commenting on the success of this year’s expanded education and outreach programme, Joe Moynihan, CEO, Jersey Finance, said:

“More than 3,000 young Islanders have found their first job in finance in the past decade and, as the Island’s largest employer we know that building on that and ensuring our finance industry has a resilient and sustainable local workforce is vital to our future success. To that end, we have made a concerted effort over 2025 to ramp up our efforts to engage with local students and teachers – to explain to them how our industry is changing, that it is not just about number-crunching, and how it can offer a broad range of opportunities spanning technology, marketing, business strategy, sustainability and more.

“As a result, we have engaged with around 1,000 students across our events, presentations, Finance Days and work experience initiatives this year, while our latest Teacher Toolkit reflects our ongoing focus on supporting teachers too. I’ve been really pleased that so many firms have supported these initiatives this year and, as we move into 2026, we are looking to expand it further taking our events to more schools, reaching more students and playing our part in ensuring that Jersey’s young people are better equipped for the future.”

More about the Teacher Toolkit can be found here.