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, which encompasses labor-market demand, wage outcomes, competitive landscape, physical lab investments, site considerations, enrollment potential, and unit economics.

• Differentiate between validated market facts, working assumptions, and recommendations to assist leadership in making go/no-go decisions.

• Provide guidance on pricing, cohort sizes, delivery models, capital needs, and staffing for hands-on instruction.

• Formulate recommendations for competency frameworks, course sequences, clock- or credit-hour structures, as well as lab and equipment specifications.

• Evaluate compliance with NEC/NFPA 70, NCCER curricula, OSHA 10/30, state licensure, and Registered Apprenticeship standards.

• Suggest articulation pathways leading to apprenticeships and journey-level opportunities, including connections to IBEW/NECA and other routes.

• Offer advice on the development of employer or industry advisory boards.

• Establish policies, processes, and outcome measures focused on employment, apprenticeship, and readiness for state examinations.

• Counsel on faculty qualifications, lab-safety instructor-to-student ratios, equipment sourcing, and models for facilities or lab partnerships.

• Identify requirements for accreditation, state authorization, and program approvals.

• Create recommendations and an implementation roadmap for potential program launches, dependent on institutional approval.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven subject-matter expertise in the electrical trade.

• Direct experience in designing, launching, and scaling vocational, CTE, or workforce programs within a higher education institution, community or technical college, trade school, or workforce-development organization.

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

• Proficiency in business and operations, including program P&L, staffing models, equipment capital needs, and enrollment economics, in addition to instructional design.

• Successful history of building 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 processes for accreditor or state approval (preferred).

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Project-based consulting engagement organized around specific deliverables and project phases.

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