Partnership & Placement Specialist - Medical Assisting

Employer Partnership & Placement Specialist - Medical Assisting

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning's family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career.

The Employer Partnership & Placement Specialist - MA is responsible for employment outcomes for Medical Assisting graduates. Develops employer relationships, generates job leads, and matches graduates to direct-hire opportunities. This role coordinates the placement process from outreach through hire. Maintains accurate, compliant employment records. Supports accreditation requirements, campus performance, and placement results.

Position will be based out of a Bay Area campus:
Concord, Fremont, San Jose, or Hayward.

Are you the kind of person who does not wait for the phone to ring? Good. We should talk.

Unitek Learning is looking for a highly driven Graduate Placement & Employer Development Specialist to help our Medical Assisting graduates launch their healthcare careers. This is not a sit-back-and-process-paperwork role. This is a build-the-pipeline, open-the-door, make-the-call, land-the-job-order, match-the-graduate, verify-the-hire kind of role.

In other words, if you have ever worked a recruiting desk, chased job orders, sourced employer partners, filled openings, and felt the sweet satisfaction of making a placement happen, you may have just found your next lane.

You will own employment outcomes for Medical Assisting graduates across assigned Bay Area and/or Sacramento-area campuses. Your job is to build strong employer partnerships with medical offices, clinics, urgent care centers, specialty practices, hospital systems, and other healthcare employers who need talent. You will spend time on campus and in the field. That means calls, emails, texts, in-person visits, networking, follow-up, and more follow-up.

The glamorous stuff. The coffee-fueled stuff. The "I know exactly who you should interview" stuff.

Create and grow employer partnerships that lead to real hiring opportunities.

Generate job leads and job orders for Medical Assisting graduates.

Match graduates to open roles based on employer needs, graduate readiness, and likelihood of hire.

Coach graduates on resumes, interviews, job search strategy, and professional follow-up.

Move candidates through the hiring process, including resume submittals, interviews, offers, starts, and employment verification.

Track activity, outcomes, employer development, and verified graduate employment.

Keep documentation accurate, complete, and audit-ready because results matter, but compliance still gets a seat at the table.

This role is driven by outcomes. We measure activity, pipeline movement, employer development, and verified graduate employment. The goal is clear; help our Medical Assisting graduates get hired and help campuses meet or exceed employment rates of 70% or higher for each reporting year. You will know where your pipeline stands. You will know which employers are hiring. You will know which graduates are ready.

You will know where the bottlenecks are, and you will not wait around hoping someone else fixes them.

You do not need someone standing over your shoulder to tell you what needs to happen next. You see the goal, you build the plan, make the calls, follow the lead, close the loop and keep moving until the outcome is real.

A former staffing agency recruiter who misses the thrill of making placements happen.

A business development or sales-minded professional who knows how to build relationships and create opportunity.

A self-starter who does not need someone hovering nearby with a checklist and a motivational mug.

Comfortable with cold outreach, field visits, and employer conversations.

Motivated by goals, metrics, urgency, and results.

Organized enough to document your work and persistent enough to keep the pipeline moving.

Passionate about helping graduates turn training into employment.

Three or more years of experience in staffing, recruiting, business development, workforce placement, sales, career services, or a related field.

Prior experience in a staffing agency, recruiting desk, placement firm, or other high-activity, outcome-driven environment is strongly preferred.

Proven ability to generate leads, build relationships, match candidates to opportunities, and produce hires or placements.

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