Strategic Industry Partnerships RI Department of Labor and Training Scott R. Jensen, Director April 2015 Real Jobs Rhode Island:

Strategic Industry Partnerships

RI Department of Labor and Training

Scott R. Jensen, Director

April 2015

Real Jobs Rhode Island:Real Jobs Rhode Island:

Purpose

• Coordinate and use state workforce development resources to meet employer demand

• Put Rhode Islanders back to work in family-sustaining employment

• Create a common platform on which collaboration thrives

Creation of Strategic Industry-led Partnerships

Hospitality

DefenseMarine Trades

Manufacturing

Governor’s Workforce Board Programs

Career & Tech Education

TANF programs

Adult Education Programs

WIA/ WIOA Programs

CCRI

URI

RIC

RI’s Current Workforce Constellation

Finance

Hospitality

Defense

Marine Trades

Manufacturing

Real Jobs RI VISION

Finance

= Strategic Industry Convener

Manufacturing

What is a Strategic Industry Partnership?

• Cluster of Employers [REQUIRED]• Lead Convener [REQUIRED]• Local Workforce Boards• Four Year and Community Colleges• Nonprofits / CBOs• K-12 / CTE • Economic Development Professionals

• Other Vital Partners

A collaboration driven by a common industry and common needs

Under Real Jobs RI,

Strategic Industry Partnership Plans

are in the the Driver’s Seat

Strategic Industry Partnership Plans

• Cluster of Employers leads the charge• “Perspicuous”• Identify common workforce needs for high-

demand occupations

• Identify strategies to meet workforce needs and shortages by tapping recruiting “pipelines”

What is a “perspicuous” plan?

• Roles – Who does what within the Partnership? Is there capacity to do the work?

• Training – that targets the employer’s job needs. Plans must have clarity about target occupations. There must be real jobs now or in the future and the identification of the required skills needed to fill them successfully.

• Strategic Pipeline – A plan to find and recruit employees.

Workforce Data + Employer Observation

It defines:

The Real Jobs RI Endgame:Systems Change

Examples:

• Educators and industry HR professionals collaborating to create a program that both trains for job-specific skills and screens for work-readiness skills.

• A plan that recruits deep into underserved communities because of its robust collaboration with a CBO, non-profit or a GED program (or all three).

• A plan that identifies stubborn bureaucratic impediments and collaboratively dissolves them.

RJRI

Click on the RJRI logo to view a video about a successful healthcare partnership in Colorado

Example:

Metro Denver Healthcare PartnershipMetro Denver Healthcare Partnership

Strategic Industry Partnerships must take root in the industry itself. The Department of Labor and Training will seek to have partnerships in all of Rhode Island’s most critical industries, but these collaborations start with YOU.

April 2015: Solicitation for Planning Grants opens —

Seed grants, up to $25K, to plan partnerships and initial workforce strategies.

July 2015: Solicitation for Planning Grants closes

July 2015: Planning Grant Awards announced

July 2015: Solicitation for Implementation Grants opens —

Development grants, up to $150K, to implement the proposed partnership plan.

October 2015: Solicitation for Implementation Grants closes

November 2015: Implementation Grant Awards announced

Timeline

Resources

For program specific questions, please contact: Mallory McMahon

Special Assistant, Office of the Director

[email protected] or 401-462-8888