The POWER Project Director will lead the expansion of the Labor Center’s workforce development portfolio, with a focus on advancing a high-road economy and expanding prosperity through research, education, evaluation, coalition building, and movement-building strategies. The POWER Project Director will strengthen connections between the Labor Center’s work and statewide workforce development efforts. In collaboration with Labor Center staff and community partners, the POWER Project Director will help determine research priorities, expand organizational research and evaluation capacity through staff development and fundraising, cultivate relationships with researchers and community-based partners, and guide strategic planning efforts that identify long-term priorities, projects, and fundraising opportunities aligned with the Labor Center’s mission and strategic vision.
As a leading expert on the California Workforce Development Board’s High Road Training Partnership (HRTP) Initiative, the POWER Project Director will help shape and expand an innovative workforce development model centered on equity, job quality, worker power, and climate resilience. The POWER Project Director will contribute to the Labor Center’s role as a statewide leader on HRTP implementation and expansion, including developing evaluation frameworks grounded in racial equity and elevating the role of community-based organizations as critical workforce development partners that create access points for historically marginalized communities into the public workforce system.
The position will also oversee the management and administration of workforce development grants and contracts, ensuring compliance with university and agency policies and guidelines. In addition, the POWER Project Director will participate in the Labor Center’s leadership team that includes oversight of budgets, personnel, external and internal relations, education and training, and research efforts.
Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11213
