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About the Role

The Partnership Development Specialist is an engaging, field-based business development professional responsible for building excellent, trusted relationships with hospitals, healthcare organizations, clinical education departments, and other clinical providers. These partnerships create the clinical learning opportunities nursing students need to complete their education and enter the healthcare workforce.

Responsibilities

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.
Independently prioritize opportunities to consistently meet goals.
Present partnership opportunities, understand partner needs, address questions and concerns, negotiate agreements, and secure clinical placements.
Present partnership opportunities, 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.
Represent Unitek at healthcare events, conferences, advisory boards, and community networking opportunities.
Support partnership documentation, forms, trackers, onboarding, and compliance activities to help ensure program, regulatory, and accreditation requirements are met.
Track outreach, meetings, opportunities, agreements, and follow-up activity in the company CRM.
Spend approximately 70% of working time traveling throughout the assigned territory and meeting partners in person.

Requirements

Dependable transportation and a safe driving record are required.
Comfortable using Microsoft Office, spreadsheets, databases, CRM systems.

Skills

Business Development
Partnership Relationship Management
Client Engagement
Consultative sales
Presentation
Negotiation
Relationship-building
Verbal communication
Written communication
Organizational skills
Interpersonal skills

Location

Field-based

Work Type

Field-based
Campus

Experience Level

Two or more years of experience in sales, outside sales, business development, recruiting, account management, client relations, workforce development, employer relations, healthcare partnerships, or a comparable relationship-based role is preferred.
Strong experience in outside sales, recruiting, employer relations, staffing, account management, medical sales, or other relationship-based business development roles are encouraged to apply.

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

USD 70000 - USD 80000 - yearly

Benefits

Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year. Increasing based on years of service with company
12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
401K with a Company Match
Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
Leadership development and training for career advancement
Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on program

About the Company

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.
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.