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90-Day Project-Based Contract | Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area | Hybrid

Company Overview

Verde Nexus is building a globally scalable ecosystem connecting AI-enabled education, workforce development, sustainability, agriculture, digital commerce, institutional partnerships, affiliate infrastructure, and marketplace opportunities.

The Verde Nexus platform is designed for global reach across 47+ countries and 22+ languages, integrating education, technology, sustainable commerce, entrepreneurship, workforce opportunity, and international market development.

Our operating strategy is global by design and local by execution. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina serves as Verde Nexus’s initial U.S. flagship pilot market, where we are building measurable workforce, agriculture, institutional, and economic-development partnerships that can later be replicated across additional domestic and international markets.

About the Role

The Workforce Partnerships Representative will help build the workforce-development pipeline supporting Verde Nexus’s flagship pilot.

This individual will identify, develop, and advance relationships with workforce boards, community colleges, training providers, career-development organizations, community organizations, staffing and employment partners, and employers.

The objective is not simply to generate meetings. The Representative will help create real recruitment, training, certification, placement, paid-work, and employer pathways that connect participants to measurable economic opportunity.

This role requires strong relationship development, disciplined follow-up, local market knowledge, and the ability to move opportunities from initial outreach toward active partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify workforce boards, community colleges, technical colleges, training organizations, career-development programs, community organizations, staffing partners, and employers.
• Research workforce-development priorities and employer talent needs across the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill region.
• Identify decision-makers and develop targeted outreach strategies.
• Secure qualified meetings with workforce and employer stakeholders.
• Introduce Verde Nexus’s Workforce + Agriculture Training Pipeline Pilot.
• Develop recruitment, training, certification, apprenticeship, placement, internship, stipend, and paid-work pathways where appropriate.
• Identify employer demand that can inform participant training and placement strategy.
• Develop relationships that connect workforce programming to actual economic opportunities.
• Support partner onboarding, pilot briefs, MOUs, agreements, and implementation activities.
• Gather partner feedback and communicate market needs to leadership.
• Maintain accurate opportunity stages, notes, supporting evidence, and next actions within the designated CRM.
• Coordinate with the Global Pilot & Strategic Partnerships Lead and Global Operations & Partnerships Coordinator.
• Participate in local meetings, stakeholder events, workforce convenings, and strategic outreach when necessary.
• Track measurable workforce outcomes and partnership progression.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role includes:

• Qualified workforce and employer decision-maker meetings.
• Active relationships with workforce boards, training providers, community colleges, and employers.
• Recruitment and participant-referral pathways.
• Training and certification partnerships.
• Internship, apprenticeship, stipend, employment, or placement pathways.
• Documented participant opportunities and outcomes.
• Workforce partners progressing from discussion to active pilot participation.
• Accurate CRM documentation and consistent follow-up.
• Strong local intelligence regarding workforce needs and employer demand.

Ideal Candidate

Strong candidates should demonstrate:

• Experience in workforce development, staffing, recruiting, employer relations, education, economic development, community partnerships, career services, or related fields.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-engagement capabilities.
• Experience working with workforce boards, educational institutions, employers, training organizations, or community-based organizations is highly valuable.
• Understanding of career pathways, workforce training, hiring needs, skills development, and employment-placement models.
• Ability to conduct market and partner research and convert findings into targeted outreach.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Experience using CRM, applicant-tracking, partnership-management, or similar systems.
• Independent work discipline and strong follow-through.
• Ability to manage multiple opportunities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Familiarity with workforce metrics and measurable employment outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of or professional relationships within the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill region is highly desirable.
• Interest or experience in sustainability, agriculture, education technology, social impact, or economic mobility is advantageous.

A bachelor’s degree in business, workforce development, education, public administration, communications, human resources, economic development, or a related field is welcomed, but demonstrated professional experience and measurable results may substitute for formal education.

Engagement & Compensation

This position begins as a 90-day project-based contract engagement during Verde Nexus’s pilot and capital-development stage.

Compensation will be documented in writing before services begin and may include:

• defined milestone-based payments;
• compensation for verified qualifying partnership outcomes; and
• 3%–5% participation in directly sourced eligible commercial revenue where an approved workforce relationship generates qualifying commercial revenue.

No percentage-based compensation will be paid on:

• charitable donations;
• charitable grant awards; or
• investment capital.

Verde Nexus is implementing a funding-triggered compensation progression. As usable operating capital and sustainable revenue are received, high-performing team members may be considered for increased project compensation, recurring retainers, expanded scopes, and eventually salaried positions where sufficient operating runway exists.

Any future salaried position would require a separate written employment offer and is not guaranteed.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

This position is intentionally locally focused because the initial U.S. workforce pilot requires relationship development with regional workforce organizations, employers, training partners, colleges, and community stakeholders.

Some responsibilities may be completed remotely; however, candidates should be able to participate in appropriate in-person meetings, events, and partner-development activities throughout the Triangle region.

The successful model developed in Raleigh-Durham is intended to support future replication into additional U.S. and international markets.

How to Apply

Please submit your résumé or LinkedIn profile and be prepared to answer:

1. Which workforce organizations or employer networks in the Triangle region would you prioritize first, and why?
2. Describe a workforce, staffing, employer, educational, or community partnership you moved from initial contact to an active outcome.
3. What metrics would you use to demonstrate that a workforce pilot is actually creating impact?
4. How would you approach an employer that has hiring needs but has never worked with Verde Nexus?
5. What CRM, recruiting, workforce, or partnership-management systems have you used?

Verde Nexus Global is building a globally scalable ecosystem at the intersection of AI-enabled education, workforce development, sustainability, agriculture, digital commerce, affiliate infrastructure, and global marketplace opportunities. Designed for reach across 47+ countries and 22+ languages, the platform connects learners, instructors, entrepreneurs, affiliates, vendors, institutional partners, and communities through one integrated digital ecosystem.

Verde Nexus combines AI-enabled learning, digital entrepreneurship, sustainable and organic commerce, workforce pathways, institutional partnerships, vendor-marketplace infrastructure, and recurring-revenue models to create measurable economic and social impact. Our U.S. flagship pilot begins in the Raleigh-Durham market while international market development progresses in parallel.

We are building a performance-driven, globally minded team of professionals who value innovation, accountability, collaboration, sustainability, and measurable execution. Team members have the opportunity to contribute during an early stage of growth while helping build systems, partnerships, and market pathways designed for long-term global scale.