Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board

Position Description

Position: Construction Industry Advocate & Program Manager

Construction Career Exploration, Middle School Project

Incumbent: NEW POSITION

Reports to: Sherry Kelley Marshall

Date: January 26, 2009

PRIMARY PURPOSE:

The position supports the Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board in its efforts to assist the Spirit of Construction Foundation to outreach to middle school students in schools in the City of Cincinnati and surrounding Hamilton County for the purpose of encouraging consideration of construction as a career field and staying in school with math, science and language skill building to complete a high school diploma and plan for postsecondary education and/or training and apprenticeship in construction fields.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

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Accountability

/ % of Time
1 / ·  Research all construction career exploration related programs provided in the region and create an inventory of them to distribute to principals, administrators, teachers and students.
·  Research the Explorer’s Club format and consider ability to introduce construction clubs in those schools with high interest and/or create a couple of pilots in partnership with existing or former Explorer Club operations.
·  Interact with WIA funded in-school programs to build appropriate interface, overlap and pipeline connectedness to current in-school 9-12 grade programming so you can encourage students to connect to these later school resources
·  Create the specialty understanding and data system to be able to deploy volunteers to schools to deliver programs.
·  Recruit principals/teachers/counselor to host construction career exploration sessions at schools in the City and County with minority populations.
·  Identify the target schools (public, private, parochial, charter) in the service area and the strategy for program promotion in these schools.
·  Work with school administrators, parents and students to be able to collect data on exploration success – number of students who were still enrolled in schools , number of students continuing with math courses, etc.
·  Develop and implement approach to target schools.
·  Develop the implementation plan for the two-year pilot for outreach to middle
school students, including strategy and measurements.
·  Develop marketing materials to recruit volunteer resources to assist with program delivery. / 35%
2 / ·  Create curriculum of the presentations in 20-30-40 minutes increments
·  Develop curriculum to mirror OAT math, science, reading and writing as related to construction so these could be used as exercises during the presentations and to recruit teachers/principals to welcome and schedule presentations because these support OAT practice.
·  Adapt curriculum options based on evaluations from each experience.
·  Train volunteers to deliver program presentations and outline processes and procedures for delivery and evaluation of the individual outreach sessions. / 25%
3 / ·  Prepare press releases about presentations at schools and arrange for photos to submit with the press releases and market these to community newspapers and school and church newsletters.
·  Collect clippings and prepare a record of them for the SOC reporting.
·  Also collect them to send to mainstream media (TV, Enquirer) to encourage features on the construction career exploration programs and other construction related outreach supported by the SWORWIB and by the Spirit of Construction Foundation
·  Work with the SJC staff to load information on the pathway and exploration activities/documents/schedules onto the youth section of the www.superjobs.com website. / 20%
4 / ·  Plan site visit(s) to 2-4 locations based on proximity and cost to learn from their best practices.
·  Participate on the Aspen Institute Construction Sector Community of Practice on-line resource to learn about middle school career exploration activities and successes.
·  Work with the Youth Services coordinator to be involved appropriately with the Construction Pathway Subcommittee of the Emerging Workforce Development Council.
·  Become familiar with the construction pathway development, union and non-union apprenticeships and post secondary training programs in order to support students who become interested from the career exploration presentations and to schedule follow-ups to those schools with highest interest. / 10%
5 / ·  Track progress against the goals identified in the two year grant proposal.
·  Coordinate the Spirit of Construction outreach and marketing committee quarterly meetings to review written progress on activities and goal attainment.
·  As the project manager, maintain the budget and accounting of the SOC Grant Fund of the SWORWIB. / 5%
6 / ·  Serve as a member of the WIB team;
·  Continue to pursue professional development, to become a subject matter expert on emerging workforce development for both in-school and out-of-school youth.
·  Attend workforce development training locally, state-wide and nationally. / 5%

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

This position reports directly to the President of the Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board but works in direct relationship to the Coordinator of Emerging Workforce Services and the Council and Construction Careers Subcommittee, as well as works as a WIB staff team member and supports the SWORWIB, its councils and committees.

APPROVALS:

Name: / Signature: / Date:
Supervisor’s Name: / Signature: / Date:
Sherry Kelley Marshall

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