Sr. Partnership Development Specialist

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. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

*** Looking for a candidate who is local to the Bay area - local travel required ***

Are you energized by meeting new people, building excellent, trusted relationships, and creating partnerships that make a meaningful difference in the community?

Do you enjoy being out in the field, visiting prospective partners, learning what matters to them, and finding the right approach that makes them want to work with you?

Do you enjoy making sure every partnership is the right fit, putting on your detective hat to understand the employer’s needs, evaluate potential partners, and confirm all requirements are met?

At Unitek Learning, your work will help shape the future of healthcare. By creating partnerships that open doors for students and strengthen the healthcare workforce, you will help change lives, improve access to care, and make communities healthier and stronger.

• Build excellent, trusted relationships with clinical education departments, healthcare leaders, and key decision-makers through regular face-to-face visits, thoughtful communication, and consistent follow-up. Maintain strong partnerships and ensure current partners feel valued, supported, and confident working with Unitek.
• Identify and pursue new clinical partnership opportunities within an assigned territory, expand existing partnerships to create additional clinical learning opportunities, and independently prioritize opportunities to consistently meet goals.
• your approach accordingly. Create a positive and memorable partner experience that differentiates Unitek from other schools competing for clinical placements. Maintain consistent, thoughtful follow-up that keeps Unitek memorable and moves opportunities forward.
• Secure signed affiliation agreements and clinical placement opportunities needed to support students and program growth.
• Present partnership proposals, address questions and concerns, and negotiate agreements with clinical and operational leaders. Clearly communicate how partnering with Unitek supports students, healthcare organizations, patients, and the future healthcare workforce.
• Conduct regular in-person visits with hospitals, clinics, skilled nursing facilities, and other healthcare organizations. Collaborate with nursing leadership to evaluate prospective sites, coordinate visits, confirm they support student learning needs, and secure signed affiliation agreements and clinical placement opportunities.
• Support employer engagement and business development by representing Unitek at advisory boards, hosted and community events, conferences, networking opportunities, and marketing initiatives that strengthen Unitek’s industry presence.
• Support clinical partnership documentation, onboarding, and ongoing education program compliance activities to ensure sites meet and maintain academic, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.
• Track outreach, meetings, opportunities, agreements, and follow-up activity in the company CRM.
• Travel and Field Expectations:
  This is a field-based role that regularly travels throughout the assigned territory. At least 70% of working time will be spent meeting prospective and existing partners in person.

• Prefer meeting people face to face, enjoy…