Vocational Education Program Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with Product and Strategy teams to create the business case, encompassing labor-market demand, wage outcomes, the competitive landscape, possible physical lab investments, site considerations, enrollment potential, and unit economics.

• Differentiate between validated market facts, working assumptions, and recommendations to aid leadership in their go/no-go decision-making process.

• Provide guidance on pricing, cohort sizes, delivery models (including hybrid lab and online theory), as well as capital and staffing considerations.

• Formulate recommendations for competency frameworks, course sequences, clock- or credit-hour structures, along with lab and equipment requirements.

• Evaluate compliance with NEC/NFPA 70, NCCER Core and Electrical curricula, OSHA 10/30, state licensure, and U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship standards.

• Suggest articulation pathways into apprenticeships and journey-level opportunities, including connections with IBEW/NECA and other union or independent-contractor pathways.

• Provide counsel on the establishment of an employer or industry advisory board.

• Propose policies, processes, and outcome measures for employment, apprenticeship, and state-examination entry requirements.

• Advise Academics on faculty qualifications, instructor-to-student lab-safety ratios, equipment sourcing, and facilities or lab-partner models.

• Identify considerations for accreditation, state authorization, and program approval.

• Create recommendations and a roadmap for implementing a potential program launch, subject to institutional review and approval.

• May extend into detailed program design and launch planning following a feasibility assessment and approval.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven subject-matter expertise in the electrical trade.

• Direct experience in designing, launching, and scaling vocational, CTE, or workforce programs at higher education institutions, community or technical colleges, trade schools, or workforce-development organizations.

• Solid understanding of NEC, NCCER, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship standards, and state electrical licensure frameworks.

• Business and operational fluency, with the capability to advise on program P&L, staffing models, equipment capital requirements, and enrollment economics, in addition to instructional design.

• History of developing employer partnerships and pathways for apprenticeship or job placement.

• Licensed electrician, master electrician, or equivalent relevant industry credential (preferred).

• Previous experience as a program director, dean, or department leader in a trades or workforce environment (preferred).

• Familiarity with competency-based or clock-hour program models and the processes for accreditor or state approval (preferred).

• Experience with hybrid lab-plus-online delivery models for hands-on trades (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Consulting engagement based on projects structured around defined deliverables and phases.

• Estimated 20–40 hours per week during the business-case and design phases, with workload fluctuating based on project milestones, deliverables, and engagement needs.