Apprenticeship Program Specialist

Role Description

We are seeking an Apprenticeship Program Specialist 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.

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.

The Foundation's Collaborative Impact Department, through the LAUNCH Apprenticeship Network, seeks an Apprenticeship Program Specialist, Credit for Prior Learning (CPL), to lead and support the integration of academic credit for registered apprenticeship learning across California. This position will engage directly with:

• Building trades apprenticeship programs and other industry sectors
• Community colleges
• Faculty
• Statewide stakeholders

The Specialist will serve as a liaison between apprenticeship training programs and college systems, facilitate curriculum alignment, organize stakeholder engagement, and contribute to the systemic expansion of CPL across the state.

• Act as the primary liaison between apprenticeship program directors, curriculum leads, and community college faculty for the purpose of establishing CPL pathways.
• Analyze not-for-credit training curriculum used by apprenticeship programs for the purposes of identifying CPL opportunities and develop a centralized database of CPL points of contacts.
• Organize and evaluate effectiveness of in-person and virtual workshops.
• Attend relevant events and conferences, and develop and support a community of practice for building trades CPL coordinators and community college partners.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of apprenticeship structures, building trades training models, and their relationship to community college academic frameworks.
• Experience with Credit for Prior Learning policy, curriculum development, academic articulation or building trades training standards.
• Innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship are encouraged as employees work to achieve organizational goals.

Requirements

• Must reside in California.

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