Workforce Development Consultant

About the role

The FUSE Executive Fellow will support the development of local backbone capacity, align cross-sector partners around shared cradle-to-career priorities, and strengthen systems, governance, and collaboration across communities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive discovery phase to build a deep understanding of the current landscape for place-based partnership development across target regions.
  • Lead a structured listening tour with key stakeholders, including Promise Partnership Utah’s leadership and staff, local government leaders, school districts, community-based organizations, employers, higher education institutions, and regional partners.
  • Capture insights into existing collaboration efforts, community priorities, partnership readiness, and opportunities to strengthen local backbone capacity.
• Design and implement strategies to strengthen place-based partnerships across participating communities.
  • Identify and support the development of 3–6 local backbone organizations to coordinate cross-sector efforts.
  • Facilitate shared visioning processes to align stakeholders around common cradle-to-career goals and outcomes.
  • Establish governance structures that support effective collaboration and decision-making.
• Support the development of consistent approaches for stakeholder engagement, working closely with local governments, school systems, nonprofits, employers, and community leaders to strengthen alignment and coordination.
• Help establish data-informed frameworks to guide partnership efforts, including identifying priority indicators and supporting the use of shared data to inform decision-making and track progress.

Requirements

Executive Fellows are FUSE employees and receive an annual salary of $95,000. Fellows can also access various health, dental, and vision insurance benefits. This amount is not representative of market-rate salaries for the experienced professionals in our program but is intended as compensation for a year of public service.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in organizational transformation and change management, from practitioner to enterprise-level leadership.
• Synthesizes complex information into clear and concise recommendations and action-oriented implementation plans.
• Develops and effectively implements both strategic and operational project management plans.
• Generates innovative, data-driven, and result-oriented solutions to complex challenges.
• Responds quickly to changing ideas, responsibilities, expectations, trends, strategies, and other processes.
• Communicates effectively verbally and in writing and excels in active listening and conversing.
• Fosters collaboration across multiple constituencies to support more effective decision-making.
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, both inside and outside of government, particularly community-based relationships.
• Embraces differing viewpoints and implements strategies to find common ground.
• Demonstrates confidence and professional diplomacy while effectively interacting with individuals at all levels of various organizations.

Skills

• Organizational Transformation and Change Management
• Data-Driven Solutions
• Strategic Planning
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Relationship Building
• Conflict Resolution

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance

Pay

$95,000 annually

Schedule

Embedded within the host government, reporting directly to the Project Supervisor and receiving strategic guidance from the Executive Sponsor.