Employer Partnership & Placement Specialist - Medical Assisting

## Company Description 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. ## Job Description 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. **The Opportunity:** 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. **Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It:** - 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 placements. - Keep documentation accurate, complete, and audit-ready because results matter, but compliance still gets a seat at the table. **A Quick Reality Check:** This is an hourly, non-exempt role and is not commission-based. Mileage is reimbursed for employer partnership development activities. That said, the people who thrive here often come from commission-minded environments because they know how to create momentum, own their pipeline, and drive results without waiting for permission. The difference? Here, you get to use that same recruiter/sales muscle with more consistency, more purpose, and fewer “please let this commission check hit before rent is due” moments. If you need a quiet inbox, a predictable day, and someone to hand you warm leads, this may not be your dream job. If you like building something, owning your outcomes, and helping graduates walk into the healthcare careers they worked hard for while helping solve healthcare worker shortages in the communities we serve, this role has your name all over it. **The Bigger Win:** Our graduates are ready to work. Healthcare employers need talent. Your job is to connect the two with urgency, strategy, and a little bit of grit. You will not just fill openings. You will help launch healthcare careers, strengthen employer pipelines, and ma…