Workforce Development Program Consultant - Port & Maritime

Alphahire; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGov seeks a Workforce Development Program Consultant to build pipelines for port operations and city training programs, connecting employers, training providers, community partners, and public agencies around measurable talent outcomes.

You will assess workforce needs, design training and placement pipelines, and coordinate multi-stakeholder partnerships to deliver impact, with travel as client work requires.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing or managing workforce development programs
• 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 collaborator; remote-first with travel as client 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 AlphaGov proposals when permissioned

Skills

Workforce development

Program design

Partnership management

Stakeholder engagement

Performance measurement

Facilitation

Remote collaboration

Job description

AlphaGov (Casa Moon LLC d/b/a AlphaGov) delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans workforce and economic development, port and maritime workforce systems, emergency management and continuity planning, housing and community development, grant administration technical assistance, research and program evaluation, and applied field operations support.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with travel as required for client and field sites. We build teams for current live pursuits.

This opportunity is contingent upon contract award and final staffing approval. Permission will be requested before including a candidate's name or resume in a proposal.

AlphaGov is seeking a Workforce Development Program Consultant to build workforce pipelines for port operations and city training programs, connecting employers, training providers, community partners, and public agencies around measurable talent outcomes.

What you'll do:

• 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 AlphaGov proposals when permissioned

Requirements

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 collaborator; remote-first with travel as client work requires

Nice to have:

• Experience with ports, maritime operations, logistics, transportation, manufacturing, or skilled-trades workforce systems
• Familiarity with WIOA, apprenticeship, sector-partnership, economic-development, or city training initiatives
• Experience serving large urban public agencies or coordinating multi-partner workforce grants