PHS’s Workforce Development (WFD) Department is seeking a qualified partner organization that can provide Job Readiness training for our late winter early spring intensive training program in landscaping & horticulture. The PHS Green Industry Workforce Development Bootcamp is part of the Philadelphia LandCare program, which maintains more than 12,000 vacant lots, a footprint totaling 16 million square feet throughout the city.
The program trains and helps place underserved residents of the city in green jobs with LandCare landscape contractors, community organizations and local contractors that transform and maintain vacant land in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia. Vacant land greened by PHS improves the quality of life for residents, enhances neighborhood conditions, raises property values, and increases public health and safety. The training program operates in a 3 phased approach over a 6-week span:
Phase 1: 4-week intensive training in green jobs & job readiness
Phase 2: 2-week On-the-Job internship with local contractors
Phase 3: Job Placement and support services
For 2023, two training cohorts of approximately twenty-five participants each will be conducted at FDR Park in South Philadelphia. Training dates for each cohort are as follows:
Training Core Training Dates
DHCD Bootcamp Cohort #1 3/20/23 - 4/14/23
DHCD Bootcamp Cohort #2 4/17/23 - 5/12/23
Proposed Scopes of Work
Job Readiness trainings are designed to prepare participants for their primary job placements and require the training vendor to have an in-depth understanding of what employers are looking for in candidates they intend on hiring.
This portion of the bootcamp training will be covered over four (4), day long classroom sessions during the first 4 weeks of each training cohort. The selected candidate will have one day each week at our classroom space in FDR park to conduct workshops. Topics covered in this training should include but are not limited to:
Workplace etiquette
Conflict Resolution
Resume Development
Interview skills
Public Speaking /Interviewing
Work / Life Balance
Proposal Documents
As part of the proposal applicants should provide the following deliverables prior to the start of the program:
General training schedule framework
Detailed curriculum of what each session will cover
Potential list of any guest lectures that will be a part of the trainings
List of supply needs for PHS to provide
Cost for eight (8) Job Readiness Workshop and preferred payment schedule
Please submit all proposals to Tim Majoros at the following email address: tmajoros@pennhort.org
The due date for all proposals will be 5pm Friday, October 21st 2022