Regional Water Workforce Collaboration Partner (WIL Collaborator)

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