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Center Participates in American Apprenticeship National Grantee Conference
Posted January 2017
Sierra Hartsgrove speaks at a lunch panel apprenticeship discussion.
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a conference January 9-11, 2017, in Washington, D.C. for more than 46 American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) grantees to discuss the successes and challenges that they are facing in their AAI grant initiatives. Sierra Hartsgrove from San Diego Metropolitan Transit System represented the Center’s Public Transportation Apprenticeship initiative on an apprenticeship lunch panel. Sierra is a first year rail vehicle apprentice who spoke about her experiences as a women and a veteran in transportation maintenance. Diane Jones, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, revealed some of the competency based apprenticeship frameworks that she has been working on with the Center and other industry organizations. Center Program Manager, Tia Brown, facilitated a breakout session on Women in Apprenticeship with Geri Scott (Jobs for the Future) and Sierra Hartsgrove.
Other key presenters included Secretary Thomas E. Perez, U.S. Department of Labor, Eric M. Seleznow, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, David Etzwiler, CEO, Siemens Foundation, and John V. Ladd, Administrator, Office of Apprenticeship, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.
Join the Center’s Team of Instructional Designers
Center Instructional System Designers work with Technical Subject Matter Experts both in meetings (left) and in the field (right) to collect content for courseware.
The Center is at a point of great growth, specifically around training development and is looking for Instructional Designers (ISD) on a full-time or contractual basis as well as an intern for instructional systems design work. The Instructional Designers will be responsible for developing courses from beginning to end - starting with identifying and solidifying learning objectives and then facilitating Subject Matter Expert (SME) meetings in order to collect course content and finally creating suites of instruction-ready courseware using proven ISD frameworks (samples available on Transit Training Network).
Minimum requirements for the Instructional System Designer position include:
Graduate Degree or Graduate Certificate in Instructional Systems Development (or in process)
Minimum of 3 years experience as an instructional designer
Demonstrated working knowledge of computer applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication
Ability to work independently and multi-task
DBEs, including MBEs and WBEs, are encouraged to submit proposals.
For more information, see the full job listings.
