The 2024 Rocky Mountain Workforce Convening

Building and Filling the Water Workforce Pipeline

May 7 & 8, 2024
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM each day

Hosted by: Metro Water Recovery Northern Treatment Plant (NTP) Visitor’s Center, 51 Baseline Road, Brighton, CO, 80603

Affordable registration fee: $120 for AWWA and RMWEA members; $160 for Non-members (meals are included)

This live, interactive workshop has been developed and will be facilitated by the RMSAWWA Sustainable Workforce Committee, including Cindy Goodburn, who is also the chair of the national AWWA Workforce Strategies Committee. 

This workshop is a continuation of the efforts of more than 30 utility managers, human resources professionals, trainers and educators who convened in Castle Rock, CO in May 2022.  That workshop was part of a nationwide effort to address the challenges of sustaining our water sector workforce and linked to USEPA’s Sustainable Water Workforce Initiative. 

This “convening 2.0” continues to address the ongoing challenges of the water sector to “find and keep” a sustainable workforce.   The emphasis will be on recruiting and retention, and once again will feature presentations from managers, human resource professionals, and education/training specialists from water sector and public works organizations.  There will be interactive panel discussions, small group discussions, facilitated plenary sessions, and a chance to participate in the development of programs and initiatives that will emerge from the presentations and discussions held in the workshop. 

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

• To gather a diverse group of managers from across the water sector (utilities, consultants, service providers), along with HR professionals, educators. and other stakeholders.
• To convene in an interactive and collaborative setting to share and learn from the experiences we all face in finding and keeping a sustainable water sector workforce.
• To identify opportunities to strengthen existing partnerships and create new ones to build and fill the water sector workforce pipeline.
• To initiate meaningful projects, activities, and programs to support our efforts.

Contact hours (6.0 per day) are being submitted for approval by the respective state agencies in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.

For more information about the program, please contact either Cindy Goodburn at cindy@cgoodburnconsulting.com or 303-435-1104 OR Jim Ginley at jim.ginley23@gmail.com or 720-878-8523.

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