Insights Partner, Career Pathways (Remote)

Title: Insights Partner, Career Pathways

Department: Career Pathways

Reporting to: Head, Career Pathways

Compensation: $70K – $90K USD

Location: US - Remote

Employment Type: Fixed Term - 18 month contract

 

Who We Are:  

World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise that supports the educational, economic, and social inclusion of immigrants, refugees, and international students. For 50 years, WES has set the standard for international academic credential evaluation, supporting millions of people as they seek to achieve their academic and professional goals. Through decades of experience as a leader in global education, WES has developed a wide range of tools to pursue social impact at scale. From evaluating academic credentials to shaping policy, designing programs, and providing philanthropic funding, we partner with a diverse set of organizations, leaders, and networks to uplift individuals and drive systems change. Together with its partners, WES enables people to learn, work, and thrive in new places. For more information about WES, please visit our website at www.WES.org.     

 

About the Opportunity: 

The Insights Partner is a specialist role that curates, synthesizes and disseminates information and resources of the most relevant research, data, emerging trends, best practices and thought leadership in Canada and the U.S. for strategic prioritization, implementation planning, and thought leadership and influence. The work will be focused on supporting the advancement of streamlined equitable pathways to good work and the recognition of immigrants’ skills and experience.

This position will report to the Career Pathways Head with dotted line reporting to the Skills Lead. Prioritization and focus of work will be determined by Career Pathways’ and Skills strategy and approach, which supports multiple elements of WES’s overall strategy. This position will also work closely with the communication teams to share learnings and insights that inform shared work and objectives.

What You'll Do:

Research and Analysis(40%)

• Monitor research, news, programs and initiatives, labor market and workforce data, employer practices and sector signals, key actors, and other information relevant to career pathways and skills; provide analysis and advice; identifying trends and emergent developments and opportunities.  Coordinate across U.S. P&P, WES Canada and Communications to gather and share relevant insights.
• Conduct research, literature reviews or environmental scans to inform strategy and implementation (e.g., occupational data, career pathways, job-quality frameworks, pilot evidence, skills-based labor market policy, skill frameworks). 
• Scope and oversee research consultants, as needed.

 

Knowledge Mobilization (35%)

• Lead knowledge mobilization efforts for Career Pathways and Skills by identifying creative, efficient, and effective ways to disseminate information for internal and external audiences in collaboration with narrative shift and thought leadership leads (U.S. P&P, WES Canada, OOSI) and Comms teams or narrative shift and influencing goals. 
• Create briefs, memos, blog posts, decks, talking points, and thought leadership and learning products in partnership with Communications or narrative shift teams (WES Canada, U.S. P&P). 
• Translate complex data into clear, accessible products and formats

 

Learning Integration Across Countries(25%)

• Maintain a cross-country learning agenda: identify patterns, synergies, and transferable insights and foster a knowledge sharing culture. 

• Develop and manage a knowledge base by ensuring information is accurate, up-to-date and easily searchable.
• Select, organize, implement and maintain technology platforms (e.g. SharePoint) to house knowledge.
• Support the team’s “start-up posture” by rapidly synthesizing what’s working and feeding it back into strategy.  

 

Your Experience:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience in a relevant field.  
• 3-7 years relevant work experience with preference for experience in workforce development, immigration, refugee resettlement or economic development with at least 2-4 years relevant hands-on research or knowledg