Foundation for California Community Colleges

Manager, Regional Apprenticeship, CVML

California Remote Full time

Manager, Regional Apprenticeship, CVML

Remote within California, Must reside in the Central Valley.

60% Travel

We are seeking a Manager, Regional Apprenticeships to join FoundationCCC in its mission of benefiting, supporting, and enhancing the California Community Colleges—the largest and most diverse system of higher education in the nation. Together, we are building stronger communities by getting students and colleges the resources they need to succeed and expanding pathways to economic and social mobility across California. Join us as we continue this important work to uphold the value of community colleges in building a brighter future.

What You’ll Do

The LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network is a member of the Collaborative Impact team of the

Foundation for California Community Colleges and supports meaningful connections between

students and employers in California through work-based learning and support services. Our

role is to support efforts to bring relevancy and real-world experience to students in

California through growing the quantity and quality of work-based learning, with an

emphasis on registered apprenticeship, but also includes job shadowing, classroom

presentations, internships, and other job training opportunities.

This position represents an exciting opportunity to help shape and lead program development

and technical assistance related activities for initiatives that focus on the expansion of new

and innovative pre-apprenticeships and registered apprenticeships as pathways for low-wage

workers to secure middle-skill jobs in California and addressing racial, ethnic, and

socioeconomic disparities in the labor market.

  • Provides overall direction, support, and subject matter expertise for registered

apprenticeship technical assistance work in the field for assigned regional consortium,

with a specific focus on working within the community college system.

  • Leads the technical assistance services for the assigned regional consortium
  • Design and Execute Educational-to-Workforce Integration
  • Stakeholder Engagement and External Presentations
  • Strategic Liaison and Partnership Building
  • Leadership and Team Management
  • Apprenticeship Ambassadorship and Relationship Cultivation
  • Operational Sustainability

Attributes for Success

  • Excellent project management, group facilitation, and technical skills, with an ability

to prioritize tasks and deliver quality products within agreed upon timeframes, with

limited supervision.

  • Demonstrated ability to research, analyze, synthesize, and communicate complex

topics to a variety of audiences, in a variety of formats (e.g. toolkits, reports, graphic

displays, presentations).

  • Must be a self-starter, quick learner, problem solver, and highly motivated and able to

work on a fast-paced team.

  • We’re recruiting for mission-driven, passionate, equity-minded individuals with a strong desire to impact and change people’s lives for the better
  • Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals
  • FoundationCCC blends the impact of a non-profit, the culture of an entrepreneurial start-up, and the scale of a state agency
  • Team members are hired for their expertise in niche areas across our areas of impact and higher education overall, and for their knowledge of business, philanthropy, technology, communications, and more
  • We are committed to professional development with an emphasis on shared leadership, to ensure growth for employees and the organization overall

What we Offer

FoundationCCC is fully committed to a “remote-first” philosophy, and recruits and hires talent across the state in fully remote positions, where virtual work is possible. Our headquarters are located in Downtown Sacramento, just blocks from California’s State Capitol.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Wellness offerings
  • CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans
  • Carrot reproductive health and fertility support
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer

Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range:

Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.