Career Services & Employer Partnerships Specialist

About the role

A core priority of this role goes beyond standard job readiness — it is about actively generating real employment opportunities, contacts, and interviews for graduates of a health & sciences university. As the Career Services & Employer Partnerships Specialist, you will serve as the critical bridge between ambitious, qualified health & sciences graduates and hiring organizations seeking talent. Rather than taking a passive advisory approach, you will operate as an active talent matchmaker: hunting for open roles, pitching qualified candidates directly to hiring managers, and building sustainable employer partnerships. In addition to driving employer outreach, you will execute multi-channel communication campaigns to engage recent graduates, deliver high-impact 1:1 virtual career coaching, and maintain active pipelines to accelerate graduate placement.

Reports to: Coaching Program Manager

Responsibilities

Employer Outreach & Placement (Lead Generation & Matchmaking)

• Opportunity Sourcing: Proactively identify and connect with hiring managers, recruiters, and companies to discover open positions, internships, and talent needs aligned with our alumni pool.
• Talent Pitching: Act as a recruiter and advocate by directly matching and pitching qualified alumni candidates to hiring managers to secure interviews.
• Industry Insights: Stay current on health and sciences hiring trends to provide actionable market intelligence to job seekers.

Alumni Engagement & Multi-Channel Outreach

• Proactive Campaign Execution: Conduct high-energy, multi-channel outreach campaigns via email, phone, and text message to drive graduate participation in Career Services.
• Pipeline Management: Track and maintain an active pipeline of job-seeking alumni, re-engaging them consistently to understand their evolving career goals and employment status.
• Metric Tracking: Document all touchpoints, outreach metrics, and placement milestones in the CRM.

1:1 Virtual Career Coaching

• Targeted Coaching: Deliver impactful 30-minute 1:1 virtual coaching sessions for alumni of a specialized health & sciences university.
• Core Topics: Guide alumni across key professional development topics, including LinkedIn optimization, resume writing, targeted networking, interview strategy, personal branding/digital visibility, navigating imposter syndrome, and entrepreneurship.

Requirements

• Experience: 2+ years of direct experience in university employer relations, higher education career services, workforce development, or technical/healthcare recruitment.
• Coaching Credentials: Active pursuit or completion of a recognized career coaching certification (e.g., ICF, PARWCC, Lumia, The Academies, Coach U, or equivalent).
• Tech Stack: Hands-on proficiency with Handshake, HubSpot (or comparable CRM systems), and Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet).
• Communication & Sales Mindset: Exceptional written, verbal, and phone/text communication skills with a comfortable, high-energy approach to cold outreach and candidate representation.

What success looks like

• High Engagement Rates: Successfully converting cold alumni outreach into active, ongoing 1:1 coaching relationships.
• High Value Employer Engagement: Building relationships with high-value employers, primarily large healthcare systems and national corporations.
• Coaching Excellence: Consistently delivering actionable, high-value career strategy plans that move alumni forward in their job search.
• Data Integrity: Maintaining real-time accuracy in HubSpot, ensuring seamless record-keeping for engagement histories and placement pipelines.

About Career Team

Founded in 1996, Career Team, LLC is a private workforce development organization. Career Team’s outstanding record of accelerating the human condition has resulted in numerous honors:

• Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies
• Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation
• Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program
• Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider

As a socially conscious organization, Career Team has found a healthy balance between for-profit innovation and community enrichment. Looking ahead, the organization will continue to close the nation’s opportunity divide with additional government-funded workforce sites; while also building staff capacity of workforce funding sources and industry providers. See www.careerteam.com for more information.

Pay

$30.00 per hour

Schedule

Part-Time (On-Call / Per Diem, up to 10 hours/week), Remote (Virtual)