Business and Industry Engagement Partner (Remote)

Title: Business and Industry Engagement Partner

Department: US Policy & Practice

Reporting to: Lead, Strategic Influence and Engagement

Location: Remote - USA

Compensation: $86K – $110K USD

 

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 Business & Industry Engagement Partner advances WES’s ideas, frameworks, and policy priorities within employer, industry, and sector ecosystems. This role builds and stewards relationships with business leaders, employer coalitions, sector associations, chambers of commerce, workforce intermediaries, and industry partnerships.

The Business & Industry Engagement Partner does not set policy direction. Instead, this role executes engagement strategies aligned with priorities established by the Lead and in coordination with Policy & Practice Architecture and relevant systems change teams (e.g., Career Pathways, Skills). This position, under the guidance of the Lead, will work very closely with Policy and Practice Architecture colleagues, other peers and leaders in the systems change teams, including Skills and Career Pathways.

This role requires the ability to translate immigration and workforce systems change into language that resonates with employer needs, sector competitiveness, and economic inclusion priorities — while reinforcing WES’s long-term narrative and policy goals.

 

What You'll Do: 

Business & Industry Relationship Development (30%)

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with: employer groups and major employers; industry and sector associations; chambers of commerce; workforce intermediaries and apprenticeship sponsors; and employer-led coalitions focused on talent development
• Execute engagement strategies in partnership with the Lead and priorities set by and in service of Career Pathways and Skills
• Identify business champions and early adopters aligned with WES priorities.
• Maintain continuity and institutional memory across industry engagements.

Strategic Socialization (30%)

• Translate WES narrative, policy, and practice work into engagement-ready conversations tailored to business and industry audiences.
• Apply research-informed narrative frameworks in ways that resonate with employer values such as talent competitiveness, economic growth, and workforce sustainability.
• Position immigrant inclusion as aligned with sector and economic strategy without diluting systems-level goals.
• Support senior leadership in employer briefings, sector roundtables, and industry convenings.
• Ensure coherent representation of WES’s work across industry conversations.

 

Engagement Planning & Execution (30%)

• Coordinate and support employer roundtables, industry briefings, site visits, and sector convenings aligned with team priorities.
• Ensure industry-facing engagements reflect research-informed narrative positioning and WES goals.
• Ensure availability and usage of background materials and talking points in collaboration with team members and Communications.
• Track commitments, follow-ups, and next steps across business engagements.
• Surface engagement outcomes and recommended next steps to the Lead.
• Track commitments, follow-ups, and next steps across business and industry engagements.
• Surface engagement outcomes and recommended next steps to the Lead.