Founding Director, Workforce Intelligence Research (Part-Time)

About WIL — Workforce Intelligence Lab

The Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is a research initiative of AlphaHire focused on applied workforce intelligence for the construction industry and built environment.

WIL develops workforce intelligence systems focused on:

labor market visibility workforce planning

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WIL — Workforce Intelligence Lab

About the role

We are seeking a Founding Director, Workforce Intelligence Research to help support and expand the Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL).

This is a part-time, strategic leadership role focused on helping build the operational and institutional foundation of WIL as the initiative grows.

The ideal candidate is someone with experience in:

workforce research labor market initiatives workforce development research coordination university collaboration workforce analytics grant development public policy research applied research programs institutional partnerships

This role is not designed as a traditional academic position or recruiting role.

Instead, the position focuses on helping build:

workforce intelligence infrastructure fellowship coordination systems publication processes research collaboration workforce intelligence methodology systems institutional partnerships future grant and workforce initiative opportunities

Requirements

• Help coordinate and support the WIL fellowship ecosystem
• Assist with workforce intelligence publication and reporting workflows
• Help identify relevant grant, partnership, and workforce initiative opportunities
• Support workforce intelligence research coordination and contributor organization
• Assist with university and institutional outreach efforts
• Help establish scalable operational research processes and documentation systems
• Contribute strategic guidance around workforce intelligence initiatives and institutional growth
• Support the long-term development of WIL as a workforce intelligence and workforce planning initiative
• Ideal backgrounds
• We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in: workforce development initiatives labor market research workforce analytics grant coordination university research programs economic development initiatives public policy research research administration applied research organizations workforce planning initiatives institutional partnership development
• Experience working within: workforce research organizations university research environments workforce development ecosystems labor market initiatives infrastructure workforce initiatives economic development organizations is highly relevant.

The initiative is being developed as:

an applied workforce intelligence platform a workforce research ecosystem a workforce planning initiative an operational labor visibility system

NOT:

a traditional staffing company a startup SaaS platform a purely academic research institution

Structure

• Part-time position
• Flexible remote participation
• Strategic leadership and coordination role
• Growth-oriented founding position
• Long-term expansion potential as WIL evolves

What we are building

The long-term goal of WIL is to support:

workforce intelligence systems operational workforce planning workforce visibility infrastructure labor market interpretation workforce intelligence publications fellowship ecosystems advisory collaboration future grant-supported workforce initiatives

The role is ideal for someone interested in helping shape an emerging workforce intelligence initiative focused on the built environment and construction industry.