Director of Career Ladder Program in New York

Background 

The Google Career Ladder Benefit Fund – a joint initiative of UNITE HERE, Google, and Compass – is looking for its inaugural Program Director. Reporting to the fund’s trustees, the Program Director will be responsible for piloting the Career Ladder Program in New York City and then replicating it throughout the United States.

The Google Career Ladder Benefit Fund is a newly established labor-management partnership between Google, Compass, Guckenheimer, Sodexo and UNITE HERE, the union representing 300,000 working people across Canada and the United States. UNITE HERE members work in the hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry, transportation, and airport industries. As a Taft-Hartley plan, the Benefit Fund was created to train and upskill UNITE HERE members who are employees on Google campuses, enabling advance in their careers.

The Career Ladder Program’s curriculum, which will be designed in...