State Director

Job Title

Duties

For Series (0243) - Grade (GS-14):

• Provide leadership in formulating methods for getting results through cooperative efforts, including outreach to all program constituents and customers.
• Represent ETA at State and district conventions, meetings and councils of various management and labor groups having an interest in apprenticeship and other related training and addressing such groups to promote the training programs.
• Encourages statewide organization of management and labor to cooperate in the promotion and development of training programs in the various trades; coordinating industrial training activities with other Federal activities at the State level, with state-level employer associations, state-level union officials, and State education representatives.
• Serves as an agency integration expert; Plans, coordinates, and implements an outreach program designed to encourage employers, organized labor and their representatives, and apprenticeship program sponsors to actively participate in the workforce investment system.
• Facilitate the development of agency or national guideline material, policies, and/or strategic plans.
• Facilitates the development of materials and conducts a program of public awareness to secure the adoption of training skilled occupations and related training policies and practices used by employers, unions, and other organizations.
• Facilitate the planning and evaluation of the overall efficiency and effectiveness of training programs utilized by employer, industry, labor and government.
• Exercises authority to act on and settle, within the limits of established national policy, program problems arising within the State which cannot be resolved by any subordinate staff.
• Maintains liaison with management and labor representatives to promote DOL and ETA program objectives, provide information and resolves concerns. Provides authoritative advice and consultation, recommends new approaches and alternatives to address current or anticipated problems.
• Participates at the state in the integration of policies, procedures, and plans that demonstrate economic development strategies and public workforce investments. Incorporates and integrates registered apprenticeship as a critical post-secondary education, training, and employment option available through the One Stop Career Center System.
• Develops and applies new methods and techniques to solve problems where existing guides are largely inapplicable, or frequently nonexistent.
• Coordinates overall program plans and objectives on a statewide basis, and establishes and maintains working relationships at the State level.
• Cooperative working relationships between the State staff and the OA staff; advising the State apprenticeship council (if any) and State officials on the administration of State and Federal industrial training programs or the interpretation of Federal laws, rules, and regulations affecting apprentices.