Registered Apprenticeship Healthcare Specialist

Overview

Note: Employees for the State of Montana must reside within Montana. All applications and required application documents must be submitted through the MT Careers site at

Join the Montana Department of Labor & Industry as a Registered Apprenticeship Healthcare Specialist and help build the next generation of rural health professionals across the state. In this role, you’ll connect employers, educators, and jobseekers to real, on the job training opportunities that lead to in demand healthcare careers and stronger local communities. As part of Montana’s Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), you’ll focus on growing and supporting registered healthcare apprenticeships that help rural and frontier communities recruit, train, and keep the workforce they need.

MISSION STATEMENT: Empowering all Montanans through work and opportunity.

• Responsiveness
• Respect
• Integrity
• Excellence
• Cohesiveness

This position centers on using apprenticeship to solve real workforce challenges in rural healthcare. You’ll work directly with hospitals, clinics, long‑term care facilities, and education partners to design and support healthcare apprenticeship and pre‑apprenticeship pathways that align with RHTP’s workforce development goals, such as expanding clinical training and retaining providers in rural communities. On a typical day, you might help an employer stand up a new apprenticeship program, coach partners through the registration process, translate program rules into plain language, and track outcomes that show how apprenticeships are strengthening access to care in rural Montana.

The Registered Apprenticeship Healthcare Specialist will:

• Design and expand healthcare apprenticeship programs by collaborating with hospitals, clinics, and long‑term care facilities to develop registered apprenticeship models that advance RHTP workforce priorities in rural and frontier areas.
• Provide technical assistance on registration and compliance by guiding employers and sponsors through program registration, standards development, work processes, related technical instruction, and documentation requirements.
• Develop pre‑apprenticeship and youth pathways that create structured on‑ramps into registered healthcare apprenticeships and support local talent pipelines.
• Use data to inform strategy by analyzing labor market information, apprenticeship outcomes, and stakeholder input to identify critical occupation shortages and recommend apprenticeship‑based solutions.
• Communicate program requirements clearly by translating apprenticeship regulations, expectations, and processes into understandable guidance for employers, apprentices, educators, and community partners.
• Monitor program quality and compliance by reviewing program materials, tracking progress, and maintaining accurate records and reports to ensure alignment with state and federal apprenticeship regulations and credentialing standards.
• Build and manage strategic partnerships with workforce, education, healthcare, and community organizations to integrate apprenticeship into broader rural health workforce initiatives.
• Support evaluation and continuous improvement by reviewing completion, credential, and employment outcomes, and recommending policy or process changes that enhance results for apprentices and employers.

Candidates must demonstrate the ability to:

• Design workforce and training programs
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  Apply workforce development principles to create registered apprenticeship and pre‑apprenticeship models that respond to healthcare occupation demand and support RHTP workforce goals.
• Conduct needs assessments and translate them into standards
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  Gather and analyze employer and community input, then develop structured program standards, curricula, and training plans that reflect those needs.
• Build and sustain partnerships
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  Establish and maintain effective relationships with employers, apprentices, education providers, workforce agencies, and community partners in both rural and urban settings.
• Facilitate collaboration
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  Coordinate cross‑agency and cross‑sector efforts, align roles, and support joint…