Specifications include, but are not limited to: 4.1 A comprehensive assessment and gap analysis that defines workforce needs associated with achieving Proposal natural and working lands goals, including conducting an inventory of existing resources, analyzing gaps, and developing an implementation plan for action, with metrics to assess implementation success. This would include: i. Identifying other states conducting similar studies, and aligning to minimize duplicative work. ii. Compiling Baseline Inventory Information on Oregon’s businesses, industries, and workers in Oregon’s natural and working lands economy, characterizing them by land sector segment, and documenting associated growth trajectories. iii. Inventorying existing resources, assessing Oregon’s capacity to recruit, prepare, place, and or retrain, retain, and advance workers for jobs that are created, or transformed, by greenhouse gap capture and carbon storage goals on natural and working lands. Training and Technical Assistance should be included. iv. Projecting future land sector workforce needs in current and emerging markets. v. Analyzing workforce and labor market dynamics that affect Oregon’s achievement of Proposal and land sector goals, including the feasibility of private land ownership and management as well as projected effects on the economy and environment. 4.2 Develop a Quality Jobs Framework that includes an implementation roadmap of short- and long-term strategies to bridge workforce development and training gaps and achieve Proposal goals for Oregon’s five land sectors – agricultural lands, forestlands, urban/suburban lands, grasslands and rangelands, and blue carbon. This does not result in the creation of a new program, or a program that operates parallel to existing programs. Rather, it streamlines and accelerates solutions through partnerships and knowledge share with a new, interconnected system.
