Business and Industry Engagement Partner

🕒 April 21

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $86k - $110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🪙 Affiliate Manager

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World Education Services

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1974

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Social Impact

World Education Services is a nonpartisan social enterprise that provides widely accepted international credential evaluation services to help students, professionals, immigrants, and refugees have their foreign education recognized in the United States and Canada. WES offers credential assessment reports (including ECAs for Canadian immigration), digital tools like iGPA and AccessWES, research and policy work, and social impact programs and philanthropy aimed at improving economic inclusion and workforce pathways for newcomers.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with employer groups and major employers • Execute engagement strategies in partnership with the Lead • Coordinate and support employer roundtables, industry briefings, site visits, and sector convenings • Translate WES narrative, policy, and practice work into engagement-ready conversations • Surface insights from employers and sector leaders about workforce barriers, • Develop and disseminate key intelligence to colleagues, Leads, Department Head

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience • 8-10 years of experience in workforce development, employer engagement, economic development, business associations, or related fields • Demonstrated experience representing an organization under senior leadership guidance as well as working with employers, chambers, or sector partnerships • Ability to translate systems change and policy concepts into employer-relevant language • Excellent relationship-building skills in cross-sector environments • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. • Ability to build strong relationships and work with individuals at all levels of the organization • Ability to collaborate with people of different backgrounds, experiences, communication styles, and cultures

🏖️ Benefits

• Access to learning opportunities • Pathways for personal and professional development • Recognition of achievements • Generous time-off policies • Comprehensive wellness programs • Flexibility of remote work options