Project Manager, Rural Health Transformation
Department: Appalachian Institute for Health and Wellness - 273600
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in career services, higher education, counseling, workforce development, education, public health, health sciences, healthcare administration, human resources, or a related field.
License/Certification Required
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading complex programs involving students or trainees, employers, educational institutions, healthcare providers, public agencies, or community partners.
- Experience supervising or providing professional direction to staff.
- Demonstrated ability to design and manage career pathways, experiential-learning programs, employer partnerships, placement processes, or workforce initiatives.
- Strong skills in program leadership, advising, facilitation, consultation, problem-solving, writing, training, data interpretation, evaluation, and relationship management.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate Appalachian State University's Region 3 rural health career-services and workforce-pathway portfolio, including Scholars, Fellows, apprenticeships, paid work-based learning, clinical and field placements, rural rotations, residency pathways, certificate programs, and other approved student and trainee initiatives.
- Design and maintain education-to-workforce pathways that connect students and trainees with rural health employers, training sites, and career opportunities.
- Direct employer and training-site engagement, including development of experiential-learning opportunities, site-readiness processes, supervision and preceptor supports, participant placement, and transition-to-employment strategies.
- Supervise Technical Assistance Specialists and coordinate their assigned participant, employer, provider, community, and training-site portfolios.
- Coordinate with the Rural Health Workforce Partnerships Manager and Workforce Pathways and Cooperative Programs Coordinator to align cooperative education, placements, apprenticeships, employer engagement, and participant-support processes.
- Establish consistent participant advising, eligibility, placement, follow-up, service-commitment, and retention processes within approved program requirements.
- Monitor participant, employer, training-site, placement, completion, credential, transition-to-employment, and retention outcomes; identify barriers and recommend program improvements.
- Develop and maintain career-services resources, pathway tools, employer and supervisor guidance, orientation materials, training, and implementation supports.
- Coordinate regional workforce activities with App State, Vaya Health, AHEC, educational institutions, employers, public health agencies, and other approved partners.
- Maintain required program documentation, monitor progress toward approved deliverables, and support required reporting and continuous improvement.
Work Schedule/Hours:800-500 pm
Suggested Salary Range: $75,000-$80,000
Closing Date: 09/07/2026
Open Until Filled: No
Evaluation of Applications Begins: 08/26/2026
Proposed Date of Hire: 09/15/2026
To apply, visit https://appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/55790
Appalachian State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate in access to its educational programs and activities, or with respect to hiring or the terms and conditions of employment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation.
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