Regional Water Workforce Collaboration Partner (WIL Collaborator)

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Workforce Intelligence Lab is seeking regional conveners and employer partners to coordinate multi-stakeholder efforts across the United States in the water sector. You will map regional hiring demand and training gaps for water occupations, and help establish shared metrics across partner organizations.

This role supports grant-funded initiatives with remote-first engagement and travel to partner and field sites as required.

Qualifications

• Affiliation with a workforce board, regional partnership, utility association, public works network, or multi-employer group.
• Experience convening employers and training providers.
• Ability to speak to a defined geography and partner roster.
• Willingness for time-bounded collaboration.
• Authorization to work with a U.S. research organization.
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires.

Responsibilities

• Represent a workforce board, economic development organization, utility consortium, association, or multi-employer partnership
• Help map regional hiring demand and training gaps for water occupations
• Coordinate multi-partner collaboration structures and shared metrics
• Support regional partnership documentation for joint proposals when agreed
• Advise on recruitment and retention innovations that can transfer across regions

Skills

Stakeholder coordination

Regional mapping

Cross-partner collaboration

Public speaking

Job description

About the Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL)

WIL is assembling regional collaborations that connect utilities, employers, workforce boards, labor, and training providers to address water-sector recruitment, retention, and retirement-driven vacancies. This seat is a collaboration and affiliate track. Engagement is scoped by project. Full-time employment or a project-based contract may be used when a joint award calls for it.

Learn more: https://wilinstitute.org

We engage experienced practitioners for both full-time employment and project-based contract roles, as applicable to the award and staffing model. Engagements are remote-first with travel as required for partner and field sites. We build ready teams for live grant and sponsored-research pursuits.

This opportunity is contingent upon grant or sponsored-project award and final staffing approval. Permission will be requested before including a candidate's name or resume in a proposal or funding package.

WIL is seeking regional conveners and employer partners.

What you'll do

• Represent a workforce board, economic development organization, utility consortium, association, or multi-employer partnership
• Help map regional hiring demand and training gaps for water occupations
• Coordinate multi-partner collaboration structures and shared metrics
• Support regional partnership documentation for joint proposals when agreed
• Advise on recruitment and retention innovations that can transfer across regions

Required

• Affiliation with a workforce board, regional partnership, utility association, public works network, or multi-employer group
• Experience convening employers and training providers
• Ability to speak to a defined geography and partner roster
• Willingness for time-bounded collaboration
• Authorization to work with a U.S. research organization
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires

Nice to have

• Existing water-sector sector partnership or talent action plan
• Data on vacancies or retirements in the region
• Prior federal workforce grant partnership experience