Port & Maritime Workforce Development Consultant

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or managing workforce development programs.
• Knowledge of employer engagement and partner coordination.
• Strong program design, facilitation, and performance measurement skills.
• Willingness to travel to port sites when required.

Responsibilities

• Assess workforce demand and identify skills gaps for port and maritime sectors.
• Design recruitment, training, and placement pipelines.
• Convene employers, labor partners, and training providers.
• Develop program models, budgets, and performance metrics.
• Analyze labor-market data and translate findings for agency leaders.
• Support participant-centered program design and continuous improvement.
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to proposals (if named).

Skills

Workforce development

Program design

Partnership management

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel. When you authorize it, AlphaGov may name you as an expert collaborator or key personnel on proposals that match your expertise. We build ready teams for live pursuits — not speculative staffing banks.

AlphaGov is engaging a Port & Maritime Workforce Development Consultant for current workforce work with port authorities, cities, and regional workforce boards. You will help agencies build training and hiring pipelines for port operations, maritime trades, and logistics occupations, tied to measurable placement and retention outcomes.

We confirm scope, schedule, and fee with you before any engagement begins.

What you'll do

• Assess port, maritime, logistics, and adjacent-industry workforce demand, occupational pathways, and skills gaps
• Design or strengthen recruitment, pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, training, and placement pipelines
• Convene employers, labor partners, training providers, community organizations, and municipal workforce programs
• Build program models, partnership agreements, implementation plans, budgets, and performance measures
• Analyze labor-market and program data and turn findings into recommendations agency leaders can act on
• Support participant-centered design, outreach, and continuous-improvement reviews of workforce programs
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming

Required

• 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
• Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant, remote-first with travel to port and partner sites when a project calls for it

Nice to have

• Experience with ports, maritime operations, logistics, transportation, or skilled-trades workforce systems
• Familiarity with WIOA, Registered Apprenticeship, sector-partnership, or economic-development programs
• Experience serving port authorities, large urban agencies, or multi-partner workforce grants