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Registered Apprenticeship Roles and Responsibilities: Intermediaries and Sponsors
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Registered Apprenticeship Roles and Responsibilities: Intermediaries and Sponsors

This tool helps organizations decide whether they should serve as an intermediary or sponsor and identify the skills and resources they will need to successfully implement the role that they decide to play.

April 13, 2022

At a Glance

This tool helps organizations decide whether they should serve as an intermediary or sponsor and identify the skills and resources they will need to successfully implement the role that they decide to play.

Contributors
Cheryl Feldman, Former Executive Director (retired), District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
Stuart Bass, Principal, Progress Worx, LLC
Scott Ellsworth, Principal, Sherpa Management Solutions
Myriam Sullivan Senior Director
Topics

With the growth and expansion in Registered Apprenticeship programs, there are organizations new to Registered Apprenticeship that want to play a leadership role but are not sure what apprenticeship design and implementation involves and are not sure of their capacity to take on this work.

The tool provided here is a chart comparing the roles of Registered Apprenticeship intermediary and Registered Apprenticeship sponsor. The target audience for this tool is aspiring organizations unfamiliar with the specifics of Registered Apprenticeship, which could include community-based organizations, workforce organizations, and a host of other potential agencies that have a workforce focus as part of their mission.