Specialist, Pre-Apprenticeship, LAUNCH

About the role

The LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network is a member of the Collaborative Impact team of the Foundation for California Community Colleges and supports meaningful connections between students and employers in California through work-based learning and support services. Our role is to support efforts to bring relevancy and real-world experience to students in California through growing the quantity and quality of work-based learning, with an emphasis on registered apprenticeship, but also includes job shadowing, classroom presentations, internships, and other job training opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate with the Chancellor’s Office, K-12 districts, county offices of education, community colleges, employers, workforce agencies, internal teams, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure all LAUNCH programs and affiliated partners align with state requirements for registered pre-apprenticeship projects and initiatives, and maintain agreements with training providers.
• Track deliverables, and assist with grant-funded project implementation.
• Support data collection, outreach efforts, reporting, recruitment, development of marketing collateral, toolkits and resources.

Requirements

• Excellent project management, group facilitation, and technical skills, with an ability to prioritize tasks and deliver quality products within agreed upon timeframes, with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to research, analyze, synthesize, and communicate complex topics to a variety of audiences, in a variety of formats (e.g. toolkits, reports, graphic displays, presentations).
• Ability to work remotely and navigate various technology platforms (Zoom, MS Office Suite-Teams, Outlook, Salesforce Lightning and other database programs, Google Suite, etc.).
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and experience with Excel required.
• Minimum of three (3)+ years of related work experience in workforce development, or apprenticeship/pre-apprenticeship.
• Minimum of two (2)+ years of education or non-profit environment.

Qualifications

• Relevant BA/BS, equivalent work experience, or a combination of both.

Skills

• Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offerings.
• CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer.

Pay

Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range $65,000.00 - $70,000.00