2010 - 2012 Strategic Plan

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD
For the City of Portland, Multnomah and Washington Counties

Building Competitive Advantage

Workforce development is not a program. Rather, it is a collection of private and public investments and activities intended to foster individual, organizational and economic success. As such, coordination and alignment of workforce development efforts is essential. By pursuing a systems approach to workforce development, the region improves its ability to leverage and layer funding streams, to coordinate resources and programs, to link supply and demand, and to enable life-long learning and advancement.

The Plan

If we want a thriving economy, our region needs competitive companies, productive people and innovative ideas. We must build on past successes to evolve the education and training system to help businesses grow and workers succeed. This requires a shared vision, hard decisions, strategic coordination, and smart investments.

Our 2010—2012 strategic plan will focus on:

1. Enhancing the effectiveness of the public workforce system to align and coordinate resources/services, engage partners, and connect job seekers to high-demand, high-growth jobs.
2. Ensuring that youth and the emergent workforce have the academic and core competencies required by employers.
3. Positioning the workforce system to support and align with regional business retention, expansion and job creation efforts.

The Mission & Vision

Mission: The mission of the organization is to coordinate a regional workforce system that supports individual prosperity and business competitiveness.

Vision: Dynamic workforce partnerships that sustain economic health and vitality for our region’s employers and workers.

GOAL 1	GOAL 2	GOAL 3
What do we want to accomplish? Enhance the effectiveness of the public workforce system by aligning and coordinating resources/services, engaging partners, and connecting job seekers to high-demand, high-growth jobs Committee: Regional One-Stop System	What do we want to accomplish? Ensure that youth and the emergent workforce have the academic and core compentencies required by employers Committee: Youth Education & Training	What do we want to accomplish? Position the workforce system to support and align with regional business retention, expansiion and job creation efforts Committee: Regional Competitiveness
Focus: Quality assurance and continuous improvement of the regional public workforce system Deliverables: Develop integrated framework for business services Continue effort to standardize and systematize regional services Ensure that integration model functions effectively in changing environment Provide professional development opportunities for Center staff Move to formal certification process in 2012	Focus: Work-based learning opportunities and post-secondary transitions and persistence for disconnected youth Deliverables Support and increase capacity of SummerWorks as an established program Support and increase capacity of BizConnect as an established program Establish mutual investment model for youth workforce systems that supports work-based learning and post-secondary transitions and persistence	Focus: Workforce and economic development alignment in support of regional job creation efforts Deliverables: Comprehensively inventory the regional talent pool Clarify Business workforce needs with the WIBs target industries Continue to progress toward a long-term goal of serving as the oversight body for workforce development activities for the region to ensure business retention, expansion and job creation efforts are successful