Water Utility Apprenticeship, Internship Program Partner
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Job Description
Water-sector workforce partner co-designing apprenticeship and internship pathways through WIL. Supporting trainee placement, partnerships, and grant-funded workforce proposals.
Responsibilities:
- Represent a utility, apprenticeship sponsor, labor partner, or training provider willing to co-deliver water-trades pathways
- Help define trainee cohorts, supervisors or mentors, and job-placement pathways into water and wastewater roles
- Share non-proprietary program design inputs: hours, credentials, safety and onboarding, and success metrics
- Coordinate letters of support or MOU language for joint workforce proposals when mutually agreed
- Optionally advise WIL on evaluation metrics for completion, placement, and retention
Requirements:
- Current role at a drinking water or wastewater utility, registered apprenticeship sponsor, labor organization, community college or technical school, or nonprofit training organization serving the water sector
- Authority, or a clear path to authority, to discuss partnership or host-site arrangements
- Experience running or supporting internships, apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, or bridge programs
- Willingness to be considered for time-bounded collaboration (affiliate, consulting, or institutional partnership)
- Authorization to work with a U.S. research organization
- Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires
- Registered apprenticeship standards already in place for water or wastewater occupations (nice to have)
- Track record of measurable trainee placements into utility jobs (nice to have)
- Experience with federal or state workforce grants as a partner (nice to have)
- A geographic focus you can host and an approximate annual trainee capacity (nice to have)













