Senior Clinical Specialist

Risepoint

About The Position

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.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in healthcare, clinical education, workforce development, healthcare partnerships, or related field
Bachelor’s degree required
Experience managing complex coordination efforts involving multiple stakeholders and timeline
Experience supporting healthcare education programs, healthcare operations, workforce partnerships, or clinical education environments
Strong relationship management and communication skills, including the ability to engage executive-level healthcare stakeholders
Experience managing contracts, affiliation agreements, or partnership coordination processes
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced and evolving environments

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with clinical education models, healthcare program operations, and accreditation considerations
Understanding of clinical onboarding or compliance-related processes impacting healthcare education partnerships
Experience working with healthcare workforce initiatives or clinical education expansion efforts
Experience utilizing partnership tracking systems, CRM platforms, or operational workflow tools
Understanding of healthcare workforce challenges and clinical capacity constraints

Responsibilities

Secure and expand clinical placement partnerships with healthcare organizations to ensure students have access to required clinical training and successfully complete healthcare education programs across nursing and allied health disciplines.
Build strong relationships with healthcare stakeholders and increase placement capacity to support program growth and the development of certified healthcare professionals.
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.