Translating Regional Strategies into Action
In early 2025, the Bay Area Jobs First Collaborative appointed Sector Investment Coordinators to lead Activation Plans for five of the region’s key sectors identified in our Regional Economic Strategic Plan: Advanced Manufacturing, Battery Manufacturing, Early Care and Education, Healthcare, and Transportation Electrification.
These Activation Plans serve as roadmaps for investment and growth in the Bay Area with a focus on increasing high-road job opportunities for our region’s disinvested communities, ensuring climate resilience, and ultimately realizing sustainable economic strategies.
Using these Activation Plans as a guide, Sector Investment Coordinators will map sector stakeholders, build partnerships, identify and provide technical assistance for projects, and coordinate efforts to grow the sector’s ecosystem. This will create greater opportunities for collaborative problem-solving and ensure more inclusive use of funding across the region.
Selected through a competitive process administered by the Bay Area Jobs First Steering Committee, Sector Investment Coordinators bring deep experience in sector development, equity-centered planning, project management, and fundraising.
Read the Activation Plans and
Meet the Sector Investment Coordinators!
Advanced & Precision Manufacturing
Focus: Modernize industrial lands, improve job quality, and build a coordinated manufacturing ecosystem.
Key Strategies:
- Create a climate-resilient infrastructure investment plan for targeted industrial areas and ensure a sufficient supply of industrial land region-wide.
- Build a new regional manufacturing coordination entity to capture federal investment and deploy funding to grow key sub-sectors.
- Improve job quality and establish consistent labor standards.
Sector Investment Coordinator: BAM Consulting, Inc.
Battery Manufacturing (Battery Supply Chain)
Focus: Build a regional battery manufacturing sector that drives clean energy manufacturing, creates high-quality jobs, and ensures environmental and community benefit
Key Strategies:
- Form a Regional Coordination Entity to Guide Planning and Implementation.
- Identify and Prioritize Critical Infrastructure Projects
- Design and Build a Research and Innovation Campus
- Develop Labor Standards, Training Curriculum, Access and Recruitment Programs
- Align Regulations, Development Standards, and Approval Processes
- Safeguard Community and Environmental Health and Safety
Sector Investment Coordinator: BAM Consulting, Inc.
Early Care & Education (ECE)
Focus: Strengthen the early care sector through workforce investments, job quality improvements, and infrastructure expansion.
Key Strategies:
- Transform early childhood education careers into viable, family-supporting, high-road, high-quality economic opportunities by raising the wage floor.
- Identify and remove barriers for families and caregivers to increase equitable access.
- Provide and enhance the physical infrastructure needed for the sector to sustain and grow.
- Create and provide backbone support to an inclusive and effective Bay Area ECE Sector Investment Implementation Process.
Sector Investment Coordinator: BAM Consulting, Inc.
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Healthcare
Focus: Align healthcare systems around regional job quality and innovation, with pathways into high-demand careers.
Key Strategies:
- Establish Regional Convener and Task Force
- Identify and Prioritize Best Practices and Essential Projects
- Create and Promote Specific Healthcare Career Pathway Maps
- Strengthen Employer Engagement in Healthcare Talent Pipeline & Job Quality
- Maintain the Capacity of Community Clinics and Place-Based Initiatives
- Mobilize Anchor Institutions to Develop and Adopt a Shared Regional Anchor Mission Strategy
Sector Investment Coordinator: Jewish Vocational Service (JVS)
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Summary of the Peer Learning Session:
On October 7th, JVS hosted a peer learning session that brought together community organizations, funders, and public partners to build on their collective expertise and identify strategies to strengthen the healthcare sector. As the California Jobs First Bay Area Healthcare Sector Investment Coordinators, JVS, Still Waters Consulting, and Bienestar Community Economics held panel discussions and small group workshops aimed at addressing the impacts that policy changes have on frontline workers and service recipients.
Together, participants explored opportunities to expand access to care, support the healthcare workforce, and ensure public benefits and services continue to reach communities that rely on them. The conversation highlighted shared strengths, partnerships, and resources that can drive just growth across the sector.
Panelists and speakers included Miranda Dietz from the UC Berkeley Labor Center, Wylie Liu from University of California San Francisco, Talia Nagar from Tipping Point Community, Dylan Ruggles from JVS.
Session highlights and themes:
- Stakeholders are already seeing the impact of recent policy changes: fear, burnout, and general risk aversion
- There are serious and consequential changes coming for the sector; stakeholders across all regions and organization types are bracing and anticipating significant stressors to both the people they serve and their own staff
- We don’t want to lose momentum! There are lots of great projects and programs happening, and they need flexible funding and support to continue. It’s important to prioritize maintaining capacities that would be expensive and challenging to regain if lost
- Healthcare as a sector is a true anchor for the community and has multiplying benefits because of the health-wealth connection; it needs investment
Transportation Electrification
Sector Investment Coordinator: Estolano Advisors
Focus: Drive equitable job growth in clean transportation industries, including EV infrastructure and services.
Key Strategies:
- Develop a common regional framework for zero-emission transit fleet workforce and procurement.
- Establish a maritime workforce strategy to support industry transition, growth, and quality jobs.
- Develop a region-wide labor policy standard for charging infrastructure installation and maintenance.
- Align training and workforce partner support across sub-sectors.
