[Hiring] Founding Director, Workforce Intelligence Research @AlphaHire

Role Description

WIL is seeking a Founding Director, Workforce Intelligence Research to help build the operational and institutional foundation of the lab. This seat is a part-time strategic leadership role, not a traditional academic appointment and not a recruiting role. Full-time employment or a project-based contract may be scoped separately when an award calls for it.

The work focuses on:

• Workforce intelligence infrastructure
• Fellowship coordination
• Publication processes
• Research collaboration
• Methodology systems
• Institutional partnerships
• Future grant and workforce-initiative opportunities

What you'll do:

• 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 research coordination and contributor organization
• Assist with university and institutional outreach
• Help establish scalable operational research processes and documentation
• Contribute strategic guidance on institutional growth
• Support the long-term development of WIL as a workforce intelligence and workforce planning initiative

Qualifications

• Experience in workforce development, labor market research, workforce analytics, grant coordination, university research programs, economic development, public policy research, research administration, or institutional partnership development
• Experience in a workforce research organization, university research environment, workforce development ecosystem, labor market initiative, infrastructure workforce initiative, or economic development organization is highly relevant
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires

Requirements

• Comfort with a part-time, flexible, remote founding role
• Interest in building an applied lab rather than a staffing firm, a SaaS startup, or a purely academic institute