Description

Description

The Regional Workforce & Industry Partnerships Coordinator supports the colleges workforce mission across Marylands Eastern Shore by building strong employer partnerships, ensuring that students not only complete programs but successfully transition into careers, supporting regional employers, and strengthening the college's role as a workforce training leader.
This position plays a key role in executing the colleges Recruit-Train-Certify-Place model, with primary responsibility for connecting students to employment and ensuring strong placement, retention, and wage outcomes. The Coordinator aligns workforce programs with regional labor market demand, develops hiring pipelines with employers, and ensures compliancewith state and federal grants.
Examples of Duties

1. Employer, Industry Engagement & Hiring Pipeline Development

• Develop and sustain partnerships with regional employers in priority sectors including healthcare, skilled trades, manufacturing, agriculture/aquaculture, transportation/logistics, and IT.
• Serve as the colleges primary liaison for employers seeking qualified trained individuals, talent pipelines, customized training, or upskilling solutions.
• Establish direct hiring pipelines aligned with workforce program cohorts with employers.
• Secure interview, internship, apprenticeship, and hiring commitments from employer partners.
• Collaborate with local economic development offices, workforce boards, chambers of commerce, and industry associations across the Eastern Shore.
• Support and facilitate industry advisory committees with a focus on hiring outcomes and program alignment.

2. Job Placement & Talent Pipeline Management (Primary Focus)

• Own job placement outcomes for workforce programs, including tracking and improving placement rates, time-to-employment, and wage outcomes.
• Coordinate and manage student placement into employment, apprenticeships, internships, and clinical experiences.
• Track each student from enrollment through employment using a centralized system in collaboration with Students Services.
• Ensure alignment between recruitment, training, credential attainment and placement outcomes.
• Work directly with students and employers to facilitate successful job matches.
• Monitor and support post placement retention and success (30, 90 and 180 days).
• Maintain employer feedback loops to improve hiring outcomes and program relevance.

3. Work-Based Learning & Career Readiness

• Establish and manage internships, apprenticeships, and work-based learning opportunities aligned with workforce programs and grant requirements.
• Partner with faculty and program directors to embed work-based learning into career pathways and stackable credentials.
• Deliver or coordinate career readiness programming including resume development, interview preparation, and professional workplace basic skills.
• Support student recruitment, onboarding, and retention in workforce programs with a focus on employment outcomes.

4. Grant Alignment, Compliance & Performance Reporting

• Track and report performance metrics required by active and future workforce grants
• Maintain accurate and timely data in institutional systems and support audits and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with grants management, institutional research, and finance teams to ensure compliance with reporting requirements, audits, and deliverables.
• Prepare reports demonstrating placement outcomes and return on investment.
• Use data to drive continuous improvement in program alignment and employment outcomes.

5. Regional Strategy & Program Alignment

• Support the development of sector-based workforce strategies aligned with Eastern Shore economic priorities.
• Ensure alignment between credit and non-credit workforce programs to support seamless student pathways.
• Contribute to grant development efforts and workforce initiatives proposals.
• Represent the college in regional workforce and economic development initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in workforce development, education, business, professional sales, entrepreneurship, public administration, or a related field (Masters preferred).
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in workforce development, relationship building/networking, business development, apprenticeship, career services, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience working with employers and supporting job placement or workforce outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience with data tracking, performance metrics, and reporting (preferably in grant-funded environments).
• Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills.
• Ability to work independently and with a team across a rural, multi-county service area.
• Valid drivers license and willingness to travel frequently across the Eastern Shore.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Maryland Department of Labor, MSDE Perkins V, or federal grant programs.
• Familiarity with Registered Apprenticeships, and work-based learning models.
• Experience in a community college or postsecondary workforce setting.
• Experience in staffing and business networking.
• Knowledge of Eastern Shore labor market trends and regional industries.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent travel across multiple Eastern Shore counties.
• Occasional evening and weekend commitments for employer events and student programming.
• Hybrid work environment including office, field, and remote work.
• Most of the job is sedentary, however, occasional periods of light work may be required.
• Lifting to approximately 35 lbs. occasionally.
• The worker may be exposed to primarily to inside office conditions.
• Visual acuity appropriate for an administrative position,
• Hearing,
• Grasping,
• Pushing, pulling, lifting, reaching occasionally,
• Climbing stairs occasionally,
• Walking, frequently.