Director, Workforce Development

Organization: Results for America

Role:  Director, Workforce Development

Location: Flexible, within the United States  

 

Organization Overview

Results for America (RFA) is the leading, national nonprofit organization helping policymakers at all levels of government harness the power of evidence and data to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Our mission is to make investing in what works the “new normal,” so that, one day, all government leaders use rigorous evidence and quality data to inform important policy and funding decisions. We believe that data-driven and evidence-based policy decisions should be used to increase the impact of the over $2 trillion that governments spend annually to open opportunities and advance economic mobility.

Position Overview

This role leads RFA’s Workforce Development team, overseeing its technical assistance (TA) services designed to help state and local government workforce officials invest taxpayer dollars in what works through evidence-based budgeting, procurement, and grantmaking.  The Director also serves as RFA’s internal lead on workforce development issues.

Travel up to 20% annually may be required.

This is a full time, exempt position, based in a home office anywhere within the U.S.

 

Position Reporting Relationship

The Director, Workforce Development will report to RFA’s Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO).

 

Position Responsibilities

Duties for this position will include, but not be limited to, the following:

Issue Area Lead (75%)

• Oversees and is accountable for effective delivery and impact of Workforce Development team’s state and local technical assistance services
• Oversees and is accountable for content creation and maintenance of RFA’s workforce development-focused public goods
• Serves as an internal policy advisor to RFA’s Federal, State, and Local Practice Lead VPs on all workforce development issues
• Reports internally on progress towards state and local implementation and mobilization strategies, RFA’s North Star goals (dollars shifted, proof points), and Workforce Development team annual goals
• Represents RFA externally in specified meetings with senior-level stakeholders from state and regional organizations, governments, and other partners.  As appropriate, identifies new speaker events/conferences to broaden RFA’s sphere of influence
• Supports  Fed, State and Local Practice VPs and VP, Development to identify new and cultivate existing funder relationships.  As appropriate, participates in external funder meetings and collaborates on the creation of new proposals. 

Team Oversight and Org Leader (25%)

• Leads, supervises work of, and is accountable for ensuring the Workforce Development team achieves its goals (Impact goals; annual plan goals)
• Develops and is overall accountable for workforce team annual budget and grant budget management, including monthly P&L reviews, budget variance analysis and midyear re-forecast budgeting decisions
• Oversees and models team efforts for strong relationship-building & management  with government partners
• Ensures Workforce Development team executes routine internal performance management and continuous quality improvement, and internal/external reporting deadlines (in Salesforce)
• Ensures Workforce Development team meets year-round grant reporting milestones, including reporting docs and deliverables
• Builds strong team culture and models people managerial skills
• Serves as an enterprise leader, championing diverse teams and modeling RFA’s org values and inclusive culture. 

 

Experience, Competencies, and Qualifications 

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications, as well as an alignment with Results for America’s mission and organizational values:

Experience and Qualifications:

• 12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree
  • Required: Grant-making/procurement and/or budgeting experience as an employee within state and/or local government
  • Required: At least 5 years prior experience direct supervision of full-time staff 
  • Preferred: Master’s degree (ie MPP; MPA; MBA)
• Prior experience setting, forecasting, & managing annual program budgets
• Prior experience cultivating funders & meeting fundraising targets
• Tech stack: GoogleSuite; Slack; Salesforce; Asana.

Competencies: