About this role
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. Seeking regional conveners and employer partners.
What you'll do
- Represent a workforce board, EDD, 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/retention innovations that can transfer across regions
Requirements
- 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. nonprofit research organization
Nice to have
- Existing water-sector sector partnership or TAP
- Data on vacancies / retirements in the region
- Prior federal workforce grant partnership experience
Benefits
What fellows receive
Research Fellows will have opportunities to:
- contribute to workforce intelligence reports and publications
- participate in applied workforce research initiatives
- gain exposure to operational workforce planning systems and labor market analysis
- contribute to workforce intelligence methodologies and frameworks
- build portfolio-quality workforce intelligence projects
- collaborate on workforce intelligence dashboards and operational labor analysis
- participate in workforce intelligence discussions with industry operators and advisors
As WIL expands, fellows may also have opportunities to participate in:
- expanded research collaborations
- advisory initiatives
- future grant-supported projects
- workforce intelligence publications and presentations