Maritime Workforce Development Lead

Alphahire; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) seeks a Workforce Development Specialist to build training, apprenticeship, and placement pipelines with port employers, training providers, and city programs. This remote-first role involves collaboration with municipal partners and field sites as needed.

You will assess needs, design pathways, coordinate multi-stakeholder partnerships, and develop program models with measurable outcomes for funded projects and engagements.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing or managing workforce development programs, sector partnerships, or talent pipelines.
• Knowledge of employer engagement, training-provider coordination, career pathways, and participant-support models.
• Strong program design, facilitation, partnership management, and performance-measurement skills.
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires.

Responsibilities

• Assess port, maritime, logistics, and adjacent-industry workforce needs and occupational pathways
• Design or strengthen training, recruitment, pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, and placement pipelines
• Coordinate employers, labor and community partners, education providers, and municipal workforce programs
• Develop program models, partnership agreements, implementation plans, budgets, and performance measures
• Support outreach, participant-centered design, and continuous-improvement processes for workforce programs
• Contribute specialist qualifications and past-performance narrative to grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned

Skills

Workforce development experience

Employer engagement

Program design and evaluation

Partnership management

Remote collaboration

Job description

Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) seeks a Workforce Development Specialist to build training, apprenticeship, and placement pipelines with port employers, training providers, and city programs. This remote-first role involves collaboration with municipal partners and field sites as needed.

You will assess needs, design pathways, coordinate multi-stakeholder partnerships, and develop program models with measurable outcomes for funded projects and engagements.