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Would you like to be part of a team that seeks to catalyze system change ensuring racial equity and increased prosperity for all? Do you love to build relationships, provide technical assistance, and track outcomes to help advance a mission? We are looking for someone like you!
Workforce Development Council of Seattle - King County is searching for a grant-funded Project Manager to contribute to the mission by planning, coordinating, and evaluating system and program activities leading to system transformation and centering racial equity in workforce development. The Workforce Development Project Manager is responsible for building relationships with external stakeholders, strategic planning, policy change, contract management, resource coordination, facilitation and building trusting relationships in the community to move the needle on change.
This position is primarily remote with occasional on-site work required in our Seattle office.
The Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County (WDC) is a nonprofit, grant-making organization dedicated to creating career pathways for adults and youth through demand-driven workforce and training programs in the Seattle-King County region. The WDC forges relationships across industries and sectors in order to contribute to an inclusive and dynamic regional economy, in which all residents and their families thrive in careers defined by growth and self-sufficiency.
Some of the Key Responsibilities of the Project Manager:
- System Building, Strategic Relationships, and Policy: Connect with, learn from, and build relationships with external stakeholders to advance the organization s vision of a responsive and equitable workforce system including apprenticeship.
- Contract/Grant Management: Focus on the relationship between the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County and partner agencies throughout the contract lifecycle from award to closeout.
- Performance Accountability: Continuously monitor performance and provide technical assistance to partners to respond and adjust.
- Facilitation and Convening: Bring partners together to align services and vision.
- Capacity Building: Coordinate opportunities for regional workforce system partners to engage with coaching, learning communities and resources to improve practice, effectiveness and organizational functions to scale impact.
- Other duties as assigned.
What the successful Project Manager will have:
- Post-secondary training, certificates and/or degrees in areas including community development, education, economic development, business administration or human services.
- 5+ experience in workforce development or directly related field; OR equivalent combination of education and experience that allows one to demonstrate competitive capacity.
- 3 years combined experience in contract management, equal employment opportunity, and research and data analysis.
- Proficiency working with Windows-based software including Internet, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Demonstrable experience in coalition building or leading collaborative group enterprises.
- Training specific to diversity, equity and inclusion
- Lived experience of identified underserved priority populations this position will serve
- Additional language and multicultural experience
Compensation:
- $86,028.00 to $104,568.00 annually, DOE
Workforce Development Council of Seattle - King County has outstanding benefits including:
- Medical. Vision and Dental Plan, employee premiums paid at 100%
- FSA, DFSA and EAP plans available
- Life Insurance Plan, employee premiums paid at 100%
- Disability Insurance Plan, employee premiums paid at 50%
- 401k Retirement Plan with company match
- 15 paid holidays (includes 2 floating holidays)
- 15 Vacation days per year
- 12 Sick days per year
What to learn more about Workforce Development Council of Seattle - King County?
The WDC serves as the Local Workforce Development Board, designated by the City of Seattle Mayor and King County Executive, to set policy and administer federal workforce development funds under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). In 2018, the WDC Board of Directors and its stakeholders set a new direction for the organization to:
- Advocate for system change of industry practices and address barriers to equity.
- Broker a shared regional approach of strategies that are responsive to both community and industry needs.
- Access and amplify resources by braiding funding sources.
- Incubate and innovate strategies for racial equity impact and system change.
- Analyze and use data to measure impact/drive system change.
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Workforce Development Council of Seattle King County has partnered with All Things HR, an external HR Consulting Company, to assist with their recruitment process. If you would like to be a part of this dynamic company, please apply today!