The purpose of this Request for Proposals is to identify employers and training partners to offer Incumbent Worker Training funded through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Incumbent Worker Training (IWT) is designed to provide funding assistance to qualifying employers to provide skills training to full-time, permanent employees. The training must be necessary for employers to retain a skilled workforce, improve the skills of employees, increase the competitiveness of the employee and the employer, or retain or avert layoffs of the Incumbent Workers trained. Through this project, Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) federal funds are available to fund training that contributes to career advancement, job retention, job security or skills attainment for incumbent workers. The training requested should go beyond training the employee has already received or training that the employer normally provides.
