Workforce Strategic Lead

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GO-NORTH Division
107 North Main Street
Concord, NH 03301

Nonclassified Position # NONCEX
4009

Annual Salary: up to $124,000

(In-person preferred; statewide travel required)

GO-NORTH is hiring a full-time Workforce Strategic Lead to drive New Hampshire’s health care workforce priorities within the Rural Health Transformation Plan (RHTP)—turning strategy into day-to-day execution across partners statewide. You’ll lead work spanning recruitment and retention, clinical training pipelines (apprenticeships, rotations, preceptorships), standardized onboarding, rural workforce incentives, and cross-sector workforce planning, in close collaboration with other GO-NORTH initiative leads, DHHS and Medicaid, education partners, and employers across New Hampshire.

The ideal candidate brings deep workforce development experience (health care experience preferred; New Hampshire experience strongly preferred), strong partnership instincts, and a systems-thinking approach to building a durable, measurable workforce approach that strengthens rural access, quality, and financial sustainability across the state.

Experience leading statewide workforce initiatives; familiarity with health care delivery operations (FQHCs, hospitals, CMHCs, EMS/MIH, long-term care); experience with credentialing/onboarding, clinical education operations, or apprenticeship models, state licensing and Dept of Labor requirements.

• Lead statewide RHTP workforce strategy and execution
• Serve as GO-NORTH’s lead for development and implementation of a multi-year statewide workforce strategy aligned to RHTP priorities (primary care, behavioral health, EMS/MIH, hospital-based care, and care management) and in consideration of the Statewide Combined Annual Plan as required by The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
• Translate strategy into funded work plans, partner deliverables, timelines, and measurable targets across regions and sectors.
• Identify priority roles and workforce gaps (short- and long-term) and align investments to the highest-impact constraints on rural access and outcomes.
• Serve as the GO-NORTH’s point of contact to the New Hampshire workforce system and ensure alignment with the New Hampshire Workforce system, which includes at a minimum the Bureau of Economic Affairs, Employment Security, community-based organizations, and workforce directors from both the Community College System of New Hampshire and University System of New Hampshire and other schools as relevant.
• Build and scale clinical training pipelines (apprenticeship, rotation, preceptorship)
• Partner with educational institutions, training providers, and employers to expand and streamline pipelines into priority roles (e.g., MAs, LPN/RN, CHWs, peers, paramedics/MIH, care coordinators, lab/imaging, respiratory, behavioral health clinicians, and other critical roles).
• Develop scalable approaches for clinical placements and precepting capacity, including regionally coordinated placement models where appropriate.
• Support partners to develop “earn‑and‑learn” pathways and wraparound supports that improve completion, placement, and retention—especially in rural communities.
• Establish and implement standardized onboarding and compliance requirements
• In collaboration with GO-NORTH and partners statewide, create and maintain a standard set of required onboarding and compliance steps (e.g., background checks, immunizations, screenings, licensure prerequisites) for clinical education and employment placements. Develop an awareness of potential barriers to achieving workforce goals from state agencies such as licensing, labor and employment agencies
• Drive adoption across participating organizations to reduce delays and administrative burden and improve placement throughput.
• Coordinate with GO-NORTH leadership to link eligibility for RHTP-funded workforce recruitment/retention activities to adoption of these standards (as applicable in contracts, MOUs, subawards, and procurements).
• Advance rural recruitment and retention…