Senior Clinical Specialist

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the end-to-end affiliation agreement process between academic partners and clinical institutions, including stakeholder engagement, agreement routing and tracking, and collaboration with internal and external parties to support timely execution of clinical placement agreements.
• Maintain organized records of executed agreements, partnership contacts, and related documentation
• Ensure the timely completion, accuracy, and quality of clinical partnership information and affiliation documentation to enable academic partner clinical placement teams to successfully coordinate and place students in required clinical training experiences.
• Partner with Managing Directors and academic leadership to execute clinical placement activities by coordinating clinical partnership needs, enrollment projections, clinical hour requirements, and program launch timelines.
• Support healthcare program launches by assisting academic partners in establishing sufficient clinical partnership infrastructure required for regulatory and accreditation approval processes
• Serve as a key contact for academic partner's clinical coordinators and key contacts in clinical education for processes regarding clinical education models, site capabilities, and partnership development considerations
• Collaborate with internal teams (partnerships, healthcare, nursing, operations) to reduce bottlenecks in the clinical placement process and reduce negative experiences of the students.
• Work in partnership with Regulatory to ensure awareness of state, accreditation, and program-specific requirements impacting clinical partnership development
• Identify and escalate to healthcare leadership any partnership risks, capacity gaps, or operational barriers that could impact program launch or sustainability and escalate as appropriate
• Provide insights to Risepoint's nursing leadership regarding partnership trends, clinical capacity constraints, and opportunities to improve scalability and operational efficiency
• What Success Looks Like
• Academic partners have sufficient and sustainable clinical affiliation agreements in place to support program launch and growth objectives
• Healthcare partners experience responsive, professional communication and continue to engage in long-term partnership relationships
• Affiliation agreements are executed efficiently with clear coordination among stakeholders
• Clinical partnership infrastructure supports regulatory, accreditation, and operational readiness requirements
• Internal teams have visibility into partnership status, risks, timelines, and capacity considerations
• Partnership development efforts contribute to expansion of clinical capacity in strateg

Benefits

Additional Information

Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs. Join Our Mission Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs. This role sits at the heart of one of the most urgent challenges in healthcare education today: access to sustainable clinical training partnerships. As a Senior Clinical Specialist , you will support the creation and ongoing management of clinical affiliation partnerships needed to support healthcare education programs and student success. In this individual contributor role, you will liaise with healthcare organizations and academic partners to guide them through clinical placement partnerships allowing students to have access to required clinical training opportunities. You will work cross-functionally to align clinical capacity with program growth and launch timelines to achieve high program quality and student readiness for healthcare jobs. How You Will Bring Our Mission to Life

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