Social Work Placement Coordinator

Alchemy provides employers and institutions with the talent, support, and technology infrastructure needed to deliver career-connected, standards-aligned learning experiences. The Social Work Placement Coordinator supports this mission by helping students secure appropriate, timely, and meaningful social work field placements.

The Social Work Placement Coordinator is responsible for student communication, site development, placement matching, and placement documentation. This role serves as a liaison between students, university partners, field placement sites, supervisors, and internal team members to help ensure a high-quality placement experience.

An MSW is preferred, but not required. Experience in social work, human services, higher education, student support, or field placement coordination is strongly preferred.

• Review assigned student caseloads and field application materials.
• Conduct introductory calls or meetings with students to understand their placement needs, interests, location preferences, transportation access, schedule availability, and professional goals.
• Maintain regular communication with students throughout the placement process.
• Provide placement progress updates to students who are not yet matched.
• Conduct onboarding check-ins with confirmed students before the start of placement.
• Respond to student emails and phone calls in a timely, professional, and supportive manner.
• Communicate with empathy, professionalism, and sound judgment, including during challenging or sensitive student situations.
• Support student success by helping prevent placement delays and ensuring students understand next steps.

• Conduct outreach to new and existing social work and human service agencies to identify placement opportunities.
• Contact agencies by email and phone to assess availability, student capacity, supervision qualifications, onboarding requirements, placement hours, and program fit.
• Research new potential field placement sites for students to complete required field education experiences.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with agency partners, field instructors, task supervisors, and university stakeholders.
• Communicate clearly with sites regarding placement expectations, student needs, program requirements, and timelines.
• Collect agency information, supervisor details, placement forms, questionnaires, contract needs, and next steps.
• Document all outreach, site responses, and placement updates in the appropriate tracking systems.
• Identify when a site is not appropriate due to lack of qualified supervision, inability to meet hour requirements, contract concerns, site disinterest, or other placement barriers.

• Support the student-to-site matching process based on student interests, location, schedule, program requirements, agency availability, and supervision qualifications.
• Present appropriate placement opportunities to students and agency partners.
• Track student matching progress, including warm leads, pending interviews, approved placements, and confirmed placements.
• Work toward established placement timelines and key performance indicators related to student matching and confirmation.
• Collaborate with university partners, field education leadership, internal team members, and agencies to resolve placement-related concerns.
• Serve as a liaison between students, universities, and placement sites throughout the matching and confirmation process.
• Escalate complex site, student, supervision, or compliance concerns to the appropriate leader.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date student, agency, supervisor, and placement records across required systems.
• Audit caseload information regularly to ensure internal trackers, placement platforms, and student records align.
• Provide weekly caseload updates to leadership, including student status, matching progress, warm leads, confirmed placements, and outstanding needs.
• Review student placement documents, which may include field applications, resumes, cover letters, preference forms, curriculum plans, matching letters, confirmation forms, and placement dates.
• Confirm that field instructor, task supervisor, agency, student, and placement information is accurate before final placement confirmation.
• Ensure placement start dates, end dates, required hours, supervision information, and agency details are correctly documented.
• Follow company and university partner policies related to data privacy,…