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About the Role
The Manager, Workforce Systems identifies and supports investments in scalable labor market solutions that advance USPP's priorities. The role combines labor market analysis, workforce funding expertise, capital mobilization, and partnership development to assess which models can grow and move into public or institutional systems.
Responsibilities
- Support the design, testing, and refinement of workforce initiatives that advance USPP priorities and generate evidence for future investment and scale.
- Identify and assess investments that mobilize philanthropic, private, and public capital and apply a capital-mobilization lens across the portfolio.
- Assess the scale potential of partner models and pathways for replication or adoption within public and institutional systems, including solutions for worker transitions in sectors affected by AI.
- Analyze and help structure federal, state, and local workforce, education, and economic development funding so partner models can continue beyond philanthropic support.
- Build relationships across workforce organizations, employers, workers, funders, investors, intermediaries, and public agencies; represent USPP in relevant convenings and forums.
- Support coordination across education, workforce development, and economic development systems in priority communities.
- Analyze labor market data, policy developments, and emerging technologies to inform investments, learning agendas, scale decisions, and assessments of employment and job quality outcomes.
- Translate research and field insights into concise economic analyses, recommendations, briefs, and presentations for Foundation leadership.
- Manage assigned initiatives, budgets, risks, cross-team coordination, and external partners; support measurement and learning and translate findings into insights for future program decisions.
Requirements
- Generally expected to have 7+ years of relevant experience in workforce development, labor market systems, economic development, public policy, or a related field; experience with workforce funding and program operations is strongly preferred.
- Background applying knowledge of U.S. labor markets, workforce policy, economic opportunity, and barriers affecting distressed communities, including worker displacement and reemployment in the context of technological change.
- Direct experience with public workforce systems, funding streams, employer partnerships, or public agencies; experience combining workforce and economic development resources is preferred.
- Experience supporting investments that leverage philanthropic, public, and private capital.
- Experience using labor market data and other evidence to assess job quality, investment opportunities, or potential for scale, while managing complex initiatives with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Track record of developing relationships across sectors, communicating clear recommendations to senior audiences, and representing an organization with external partners; ability to travel as required.
Skills
- Action Oriented
- Collaborates
- Manages Complexity
- Nimble Learning
- Strategic Mindset
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in public policy, economics, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $134,000 - $168,000
Benefits
- Health insurance programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan repayment
- Generous 401K
- Parental leave
- Various forms of paid time off
About the Company
- The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish.
- We make big bets to promote the well-being of humanity in food, health, energy, and finance, including through our public charity, RF Catalytic Capital (RFCC).
- We are dedicated to being Transparent, Optimistic, Accountable, Collaborative, Trusted, and Equitable.
- We expect all employees at the Foundation to contribute by developing their unique perspectives and talent, challenging conventional wisdom through evidence and reason, and amplifying marginalized voices.
Equal Opportunity
- The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- To this end, the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status, liability for service in the United States Armed Forces, or any other protected status.
- The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.