Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is building partnerships with water and wastewater utilities, registered apprenticeship sponsors, and training providers to expand career pathways into water-sector trades. The partner will co-design and host internship, apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, or postsecondary bridge pathways, help establish trainee placement structures, share program design inputs, and support workforce proposal development and evaluation.
Responsibilities
- Represent a utility, apprenticeship sponsor, labor partner, or training provider willing to co-deliver water-trades pathways
- Help define trainee cohorts, supervisors/mentors, and job-placement pathways into water/wastewater roles
- Share (non-proprietary) program design inputs: hours, credentials, safety/onboarding, and success metrics
- Coordinate letters of support / MOU language for joint workforce proposals when mutually agreed
- Optionally advise WIL on evaluation metrics for completion, placement, and retention
Skills
- Current role at a drinking water or wastewater utility, registered apprenticeship sponsor, labor organization, community college / technical school, or nonprofit training org serving the water sector
- Authority (or a clear path to authority) to discuss partnership / host-site arrangements
- Experience running or supporting internships, apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, or bridge programs
- Willingness to be considered for time-bounded collaboration (affiliate / consulting / institutional partnership)
- Authorization to work with a U.S. nonprofit research organization
- Registered apprenticeship standards already in place for water/wastewater occupations
- Track record of measurable trainee placements into utility jobs
- Experience with federal or state workforce grants as a partner (not required)
- Geographic focus you can host (city/region) and approximate annual trainee capacity
Benefits
- Research Fellows will have opportunities to contribute to workforce intelligence reports and publications
- Research Fellows will have opportunities to participate in applied workforce research initiatives
- Research Fellows will have opportunities to gain exposure to operational workforce planning systems and labor market analysis
- Research Fellows will have opportunities to contribute to workforce intelligence methodologies and frameworks
- Research Fellows will have opportunities to build portfolio-quality workforce intelligence projects
- Research Fellows will have opportunities to collaborate on workforce intelligence dashboards and operational labor analysis
- Research Fellows will have opportunities to participate in workforce intelligence discussions with industry operators and advisors
- As WIL expands, fellows may also have opportunities to participate in expanded research collaborations
- As WIL expands, fellows may also have opportunities to participate in advisory initiatives
- As WIL expands, fellows may also have opportunities to participate in future grant-supported projects
- As WIL expands, fellows may also have opportunities to participate in workforce intelligence publications and presentations
- Remote work arrangement
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