Project Specialist - WRO Statewide Expansion
Position Summary
The Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Project Specialist for Work Ready Oklahoma (WRO) Statewide Expansion implements the vision, strategies, leadership, direction, and motivation to deploy and support the implementation of a statewide system of Work Ready Oklahoma Employment Centers under the guidance of the Senior Manager. These centers provide resources to financially vulnerable individuals who need to get a job, keep a job, or find a better career opportunity. Community partners collaboratively design each center to meet the unique needs of the local business community and the regional population. Centers provide a combination of employer and community resources to best support each participant’s journey toward self-sufficiency and family stability.
This system will shift the focus from program-focused engagement to a more holistic, participant-focused engagement. Through assessments, guided conversations, and relationships, this system will enable individuals to find the right program or service pathway to strengthen their capacity for economic self-sufficiency and family stability. In support of the WRO initiative, the TTA Project Specialist is responsible for managing site training and technical assistance (TA) needs to unique local entities in communities statewide under the direction of the Senior Manager. The successful TTA Project Specialist will contribute to ensuring that WRO Employment Centers provide consistent and high-quality programs and services.
Essential Job Functions
- Build dynamic relationships and learning communities among statewide partners invested in the local development of WRO Centers and the self-sufficiency of low-income individuals
- Provide high quality organizational leadership to projects, including management of priorities, timelines, and objectives
- Conduct meetings with each WRO site, at least monthly, to determine site level TTA needs and monitor and address site performance
- Identify training needs and connect sites to applicable tools and resources
- Engage with subject matter experts as needed to develop new resources to support sites
- Actively communicate and collaborate with other technical assistance teams to facilitate information sharing and mutual support, create efficiencies, and ensure efforts are aligned statewide
- Report TTA activity and progress to key stakeholders
- Conducts formative background research, assessments, and analysis to identify and assess TTA needs
- Develops TTA action plans, including objectives and benchmarks
- Delivers needs-based TTA, including but not limited to phone consultation, site visits, facilitation of peer-to-peer exchanges, webinar development and facilitation, and development of written tools and resources
- Documents processes, accomplishments, and next steps related to contextual, proactive and responsive TTA strategies