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Green Jobs Creation ChecklistThis checklist provides an overview of the key decisions that will need to be made by your local government in developing a greenjobs plan. Each of the items in this checklist is discussed in greater detail in the previous pages of this Guide.❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑Make a commitment to green job development.• Highlight green jobs as an issue in any formal, overarching city/county priorities or strategies;• Address green jobs in any “State of the City/County” addresses; and• Pass a green jobs resolution.Define green jobs for your community. Decide how your government will determine what constitutes a green job.Scale the green jobs plan: local or regional. Confirm whether your commitment to address green jobs will be focused on alocal effort, or participation in a broader, regional effort.(If your government engages in a regional effort, the remainder of the checklist may be modified depending on the scopeof the jurisdictions involvement.)Form a government green jobs team.• Define the role of the team.• Involve key players.• Secure the buy-in of all appropriate departments.• Consider including regional or state agency staff on your team.Identify external partners. Ensure to include participants from the following groups in any stakeholder processes.• Employers• Educational institutions• Workforce training organizations• State and Federal agencies• Metropolitan Planning Organizations or other regional governments• Chambers of Commerce and other business associations• Local and regional economic development organizations• Workforce recruitment, training and placement organizations• Vocational institutions and community colleges• Leading employers• Energy and water utilities• Unions and trade associations• Faith CommunityAssess local green jobs opportunities• Educate your team on the local, regional, state and federal political context of green jobs.• Obtain local green jobs forecasting data• Inventory existing training and education programs• Catalogue potential funding opportunities• Assess collaborative potentialCreate a green jobs plan.• Convene a leadership team to manage plan creation.• Decide the format of the green jobs plan• Create a work plan.• Assign tasks.• Decide what assessment tools you will use to measure the efficacy of the plan.USA9www.icleiusa.org
Table 2: Green Jobs Development FrameworkThis table, adapted from the Department of Labor’s Education and Training program, provides yet another framework for developinga green jobs plan. This framework overlaps with many of the same steps already discussed in the green jobs checklist.Align Green JobsPrograms and PoliciesDevelop Educationand Training ModelsCreate StrategicWorkforce SolutionsEnhanceNetworking andCommunicationsOutletsMonitor and EvaluatePrograms1. Inventory all green jobsand workforce programsacross public and privatesectors1. Identify existing jobeducation and trainingprograms1. Define workforcechallenges1. Collaborate withpartners to create acentralized green jobsinformation portal.Leverage existinginformational resources1. Create performancereporting andbenchmarking standards2. Ensure that existinggovernment programpolicies and strategicinvestments reflect focuson green jobs2. Ensure job educationprograms meet industrystandards for industrycertification andcredentials2. Create an asset mapof current workforceopportunities, resources andservices including local,state and federal fundingopportunities2. Provide centralizedcareer guidance toolsand resources2. Ensure consistent andongoing research andevaluation of the greenjobs plan3. Align green jobsstrategies with regionaleconomic developmentgrowth strategies3. Build and support thecapacity of communitycollege programs toprovide education andtraining pertinent togreen jobs3. Project new jobsopportunities, identify areaswhere new skills are neededand provide occupationaldefinitions complete withtraining requirements3. Leverageconferences and othercommunications forumsto share knowledge3. In the event thatgrants or sub-grants willbe awarded to partnerorganizations, develop acomprehensive systemfor grant distribution andaccountability4. Evaluate potentialgreen jobs policies andprograms. Qualitativelyand quantitatively assessthe benefits of theseproposals4.Developapprenticeship programsand models4. Work with partnersto develop collaborativeworkforce solutions4. Ensure that there is atransparent process forthe public to understandhow any budget or grantfunding is being used5. Educate staff ongreen jobs conceptswith a focus on howto turn workforce andeconomic developmentopportunities into greenjobs opportunities5. Promote peer topeer mentorship andlearning opportunitiesfor professionaldevelopmentUSA10www.icleiusa.org
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