Water Utility Apprenticeship, Internship Program Partner

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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)