Workforce Development Coordinator
Pay Range: $31.52/hr - $40.98/hr
Job Posting Closing on: Monday, March 24, 2025 📅
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, and Professional Development Opportunities. Find out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
Are you a creative problem-solver who thrives at the intersection of human resources, recruitment, and community engagement? Do you love the challenge of connecting people with meaningful career opportunities? Fort Worth Water is looking for a Workforce Development Coordinator to help shape the next generation of water professionals!
With over 1,000 employees and seven divisions, our utility plays a critical role in keeping Fort Worth running. But behind every pipeline, treatment facility, and infrastructure project is a skilled workforce—and we need someone passionate about building, growing, and sustaining that workforce.
This role is perfect for a go-getter who:
- Loves creating workforce programs that attract and develop talent
- Has experience in both HR and recruitment (a rare combo, we know!)
- Can build strong partnerships with schools, community organizations, and industry leaders
- Thrives on organizing career fairs, internships, and talent pipelines
- Takes initiative and isn’t afraid to launch new ideas
You’ll be leading high-impact programs that bring qualified, diverse talent into water careers—ensuring our city has the workforce it needs for the future.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in public administration, business administration, human resources, or related field.
- Four years of increasingly responsible administrative and operational experience in support of a department, division, or major service area.
- One year in a supervisory or lead capacity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Managing and/or coordinating a formal succession planning program.
- Planning and implementing career fairs and other workforce marketing events.
- Building and fostering community relationships.
- Managing and monitoring the effectiveness of large-scale programs and projects.
The Workforce Development Coordinator's job responsibilities include:
- Sustaining strategic partnerships that address workforce needs with community organizations, educational institutions, and industry experts.
- Collaborating with key stakeholders on planning, developing, and implementing networking events, social media campaigns, career and industry fairs, and secondary/collegiate career events.
- Coordinating and monitoring workforce pipeline programs, including internships, work-study programs, and apprenticeships.
- Analyzing, monitoring, reporting, and providing recommendations on key metrics and performance indicators related to workforce effectiveness and development.
- Researching industry specific workforce trends, best practices, and management approaches to drive innovation and improvement across the organization.
- Representing the department/division at various meetings with other city departments and community organizations.
Working Conditions and Physical Demand
Depending on the assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking, and repetitive motions.
Working Conditions
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Apply Now! Come be part of something special in Fort Worth. 🌟
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.
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Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles into four other counties: Denton, Parker, Wise, and Johnson.
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