Business Partnership Specialist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Cultivate and manage relationships with employers, nonprofits, local, state, and federal departments/officials, and other key partners to support career-connected education.• Develop and support employer recruitment strategies for year-round and summer workforce development programs that support youth and under-served populations across Philadelphia.• Manage programmatic functions of year-round and summer work experience programs within the WorkReady system, including developing tool-kits, best practices, and other resources for worksites and youth, conducting worksite visits, matching youth to available internships, running weekly professional development sessions with youth, updating and managing databases, and other daily operations.• Researching and preparing briefs and presentations on local, regional, and national workforce trends, emerging industries, positions, and certifications, and career connected education.• Support and lead activities in event planning, grant proposal submission, and data research and evaluation.