Are you ready to move beyond data challenges and into solutions?

Unlock powerful solutions to workforce data challenges with Opportunity@Work’s Data Community of Practice (CoP)—a six-month program built to strengthen how public sector data teams collect, analyze, and apply workforce insights. Designed for data analysts and leaders on the front lines, the CoP offers a peer network to tackle shared challenges such as inconsistent data collection, fragmented analysis, and limited cross-agency collaboration. By joining, participants move beyond working in isolation and gain practical tools to translate workforce data into skills-based talent strategies that drive equitable impact. Ultimately, this initiative helps data professionals amplify their role in shaping innovative policies and practices that expand opportunity—especially for STARs (workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes).

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This CoP aims to

• Strengthen capacity: Build smarter data systems and practices using HRIS, ATS, and other public/private data sources.
• Drive innovation: Use data to advance skills-based talent practices and open more opportunities for STARs.
• Deliver impact: Equip participants with actionable insights, tools, and best practices they can immediately apply across the talent lifecycle.
• Foster community: Create space for peer learning, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.

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Over six months, you’ll join a structured learning journey with applied activities, peer breakouts, and practical takeaways each session. Topics will include:

• Using data to power skills-based decision-making.
• Key data elements for skills-based practices and STARs—and how to collect them.
• Real-world case studies of data in action.
• Guided focus on your priority data challenge to develop an action plan by the end of the CoP.