A Field Guide to Staffing Workforce Training Grants
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A Field Guide to Staffing Workforce Grants helps grantees build a practical staffing approach for successful implementation. It outlines the core functions workforce training grants need, compares staffing models, and explains how staffing priorities and capacity needs may change across the grant lifecycle.
A Field Guide to Staffing Workforce Grants helps grantees determine how essential grant functions will be covered across their teams and partners. Rather than prescribing specific job titles or a single organizational structure, the guide focuses on the core work needed to deliver services, meet performance targets, and comply with grant requirements.
The guide describes nine core staffing functions, including strategic leadership and oversight, program coordination and operations, data and performance, communications and stakeholder engagement, participant support, employer and partner engagement, fiscal management, and monitoring and compliance. It also compares common staffing approaches, such as using existing staff, hiring dedicated staff, and engaging contractors or partners, and identifies considerations for selecting and managing each approach.
Grantees can use the guide to assess whether critical functions are adequately covered, clarify roles and responsibilities, anticipate workload and capacity needs, and adjust their staffing approach as the grant moves through different phases. Appendices provide additional guidance on how staffing functions shift across the grant lifecycle and the typical skills associated with each function.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2026
- Posted by: Damon Jones
- Posted in: ETA Grant Products