Workforce Program Coordinator
Asbury Park
Municipal Engagement/Workforce Development – Workforce Development /
Hybrid /
Hybrid
About Us
Solar Landscape is the leading commercial and community solar developer in the United States.
We partner with the world's largest real estate companies to develop, install, and operate solar projects on commercial and industrial rooftops. Through our groundbreaking community solar model, households in surrounding communities can subscribe to receive solar power at a guaranteed discount.
To date, Solar Landscape has deployed over 400 megawatts of renewable energy projects totaling over $1 billion in capital investment. Solar Landscape was named the #1 Distributed Generation developer for 2023 by New Project Media and was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s Equitable Community Solar Grand Prize.
We reinvest in our communities as a leading provider of solar PPAs to municipalities, schools, and universities, as well as through our award-winning solar workforce development program.
Solar Landscape is growing fast. Doubling in size year after year, we are looking for the best and brightest to drive our next phase of growth. We’re made up of thought leaders, thinkers, dreamers, doers. We are insightful, driven, rebellious, fun, and we are better together. Our diverse and unique backgrounds are all given a voice and seat at the table to help make real change for the communities we serve.
For more about Solar Landscape, visit www.solarlandscape.com.
About The Role
Solar Landscape is seeking a mission-driven workforce development leader to join our growing team. Solar Landscape’s workforce development program provides hard skills training in commercial and residential solar installation in partnership with local workforce and community-based organizations. As the Workforce Program Coordinator, you will collaborate with our team to connect trainees from historically overburdened communities to jobs in the growing clean energy sector. This role requires a passion for workforce development, strong interpersonal skills, and experience providing career readiness or job placement support. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated track record of supporting individuals facing barriers to employment to succeed in their careers. While prior experience in the clean energy and solar sector is not a requirement, the Workforce Program Coordinator will be expected to become familiar with current clean energy sector labor trends.
This is a hybrid role, and candidates should expect to work an average of 3 days per week on-site at training locations across New Jersey or at the Solar Landscape office in downtown Asbury Park, NJ.
Responsibilities
- Work in collaboration with the workforce development team to build relationships with employers who have current or future hiring needs.
- Provide 1-1 support for students through career coaching, job interview preparation, and resume help.
- Make job placements and referrals for students and monitor job quality, starting wages, wage growth, and career track progression.
- Support workforce development team to complete solar industry hiring needs assessments in 7 states.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date workforce student records including training attendance, job referrals, and employment status.
- Manage student records within Solar Landscape’s CRM and job placement platform.
- Facilitate or assist with special activities such as graduation events, mock interviews, industry conferences, and technical advisory council meetings.
- Collaborate with workforce development team to manage partnerships with nonprofit community-based organizations.
- Support recruitment activities with partner organizations, and lead information sessions and webinars for potential students.
- Facilitate career exploration activities with high school-aged students as well as adults.
- Assist with all grant reporting activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and/or a minimum of 3 years' work experience in workforce development; BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or training in social science disciplines or related fields a plus.
- Experience working with adult learners and skills in meeting the needs of populations with barriers to employment.
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite and CRMs (i.e., Salesforce).
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with a diversity of individuals at all organizational levels.
- Strong decision-making skills with a demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment in a timely manner.
- Bi-lingual in Spanish strongly preferred.
- Experience in the clean energy or skilled labor sector is a plus.
- Must have access to personal transportation for traveling to partner locations across New Jersey.
- Ability to travel nationally to Illinois, California, Maryland, etc. with occasional overnight stays required.
Benefits and Perks
Solar Landscape’s company culture is second to none.
Our employees combine our mission, grit and drive with a rebel’s attitude that is changing the industry:
· Located in the heart of historic Asbury Park, our state-of-the-art office space offers flexible workstations encouraging collaboration and movement.
· Employees come together to eat every day! Like in a home, our gourmet kitchen is the heart of the office. Solar Landscape has a full-time in-house chef cooking daily farm-to-table meals using locally sourced organic food.
· Also included in employees is our competitive compensation package; a 401(k) employer-match; health, dental, & vision insurance, flexible paid time off and holiday PTO; We provide healthy snacks, coffee, volunteer opportunities, company outings, and more!
