Registered Apprenticeship Healthcare Specialist

Job Description - Registered Apprenticeship Healthcare Specialist )

Registered Apprenticeship Healthcare Specialist - )

Empowering all Montanans through work and opportunity.

• Respect
• Integrity

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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.

• 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 problem‑solving to advance shared rural health workforce objectives.
• Communicate complex information
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  Present accurate, technically sound explanations of apprenticeship processes, licensing requirements, and credential pathways in clear, accessible language for diverse audiences.
• Develop and deliver presentations and trainings
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  Prepare and deliver briefings, trainings, and outreach presentations in person and virtually to employers, partners, and community groups.
• Interpret and apply regulations and policy
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  Read, interpret, and apply state and federal…