Workforce & Industry Lead

About the role

The position is budgeted at $31.25 - $34.61 per hour, depending on experience and is non-negotiable. Established in 1943, the mission of the SDSU Research Foundation (SDSURF) is to support the research objectives of San Diego State University by helping faculty and staff find, obtain, and administer funding for their research and sponsored programs.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate participant recruitment, engagement, retention, and follow-up activities.
• Deliver and coordinate career exploration, workforce readiness, employment preparation, and work-based learning activities.
• Facilitate workshops, trainings, orientations, and career development services.
• Provide resource navigation, referrals, and participant support throughout the program lifecycle.
• Maintain participant records, service documentation, case notes, and outcome tracking activities.
• Utilize AI and emerging technology to create workforce solutions to prepare candidates for employment.
• Lead employer and community outreach, engagement, and relationship-building activities.
• Develop work-based learning, job shadowing, internship, and employment opportunities.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with employers, industry partners, chambers, educational institutions, SBDCs, Offices of Economic Development/EDCs, and community organizations.
• Oversee employer events, career fairs, hiring activities, presentations, and partnership initiatives.
• Initiate job development, opportunity matching, and participant placement activities.
• Utilize AI and emerging technology to create workforce solutions to assist employers with talent acquisition.
• Career Services functions:
  • Coordinate participant eligibility determination, enrollment, onboarding, and documentation activities.
  • Maintain participant files, data systems, compliance records, and program documentation.
  • Career Services functions:
    • Coordinate data collection, reporting, quality assurance, and compliance activities.
    • Lead marketing, design, and outreach activities to attract job seekers and employers to programing.
    • Identify, communicate, and help resolve operational, compliance, participant, and employer-related challenges.
    • Support continuous improvement efforts, special projects, and workforce development initiatives.
    • Utilize AI and emerging technology to support administrative processes and overall program success.

Qualifications

• Equivalent to a bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent training and administrative work experience involving study, analysis, and/or evaluation leading to the development or improvement of administrative policies, procedures, practices or programs.
• 3-years of progressively responsible experience in an office or administrative environment.

Skills

• Knowledge of workforce development, career services, employer engagement, work-based learning, and grant-funded program models, including general familiarity with WIOA, EDD, and Department of Labor-funded initiatives.
• Ability to coordinate participant recruitment, eligibility, enrollment, engagement, retention, follow-up, documentation, and outcome tracking activities.
• Ability to deliver career readiness, employment preparation, career exploration, job search support, resource navigation, and participant-centered workforce services.
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with employers, educational institutions, community-based organizations, workforce partners, and regional stakeholders to support job development, work-based learning, and employment pathways.
• Ability to interpret program requirements, maintain accurate records, support compliance activities, use data to track performance, contribute to continuous improvement, and meet all program outcomes, performance measures, and grant goals in an outcomes-focused environment.

Benefits

Consistent with California law and federal civil rights laws, SDSU Research Foundation provides equal opportunity in employment without unlawful discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin or any other categories protected by federal or state law. Employment decisions are based on an individual’s qualifications as they relate to the job under consideration.

Pay

The position is budgeted at $31.25 - $34.61 per hour, depending on experience and is non-negotiable.

Schedule

Details on the schedule will be provided during the interview process.

Additional Applicant Information

Candidate must reside in California and live within a commutable distance from SDSU at time of hire. Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on background check results (including a criminal record check).

SDSU Research Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with California law and federal civil rights laws, SDSU Research Foundation provides equal opportunity in employment without unlawful discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin or any other categories protected by federal or state law. Employment decisions are based on an individual’s qualifications as they relate to the job under consideration.