Naila Mattison serves as RTW’s Director of Community Development, a role which serves as the three way fulcrum amongst RTW stakeholders including our Community Partners, Employee Partners and our candidates. Our central value proposition is the long term placement of candidates sourced from Community Partners at our Employer Partners. This is achieved by a constantly iterating process that Naila manages, ensure all stakeholders are updated and potential obstacles are headed off as early as possible.

Naila is a technology professional with experience in technology workforce development, apprenticeship and marketing. Of relevance is her focus on on matching clients with companies and increasing diversity and training the next generation of employees, or in the case of marketing, driving significant contact with desired demographic and to marketplace presence. In her most recent position before RTW, Naila worked at JEVS Human Services as an Apprenticeship Navigator, where she was responsible for networking with other workforce developers to use their network with a focus on creating Registered Apprenticeships. In that role, she also worked with the Pre-apprenticeship staff to prepare candidates for employers to interview, and schedule the interviews once an apprentice was selected. Naila earned BA in Broadcasting Telecommunications and Mass Media,