Career Services & Employer Partnerships Specialist

Career Team; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 36,000 - 47,000; Part time

Job summary

Career Team is seeking a Health Sciences Career Services & Employer Partnerships Specialist to bridge graduates with hiring organizations. This role emphasizes active talent matching, multi-channel outreach, and proactive placement in health and sciences fields.

You will lead outreach to employers, conduct 1:1 virtual coaching, and build sustainable partnerships while maintaining a dynamic candidate pipeline and delivering measurable placement outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of direct experience in university employer relations or workforce development.
• Active pursuit or completion of a recognized career coaching certification.
• Hands-on proficiency with Handshake, HubSpot, and Google Workspace.
• Strong written, verbal, and phone/text communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Employer Outreach & Placement: lead generation and matchmaking.
• Opportunity Sourcing: identify hiring managers and open positions.
• Talent Pitching: match and pitch candidates to hiring managers.
• Industry Insights: provide market intelligence on health and sciences hiring.
• Alumni Engagement & Multi-Channel Outreach.
• Proactive Campaign Execution via email, phone, and text.
• Pipeline Management and real-time CRM updates.
• 1:1 Virtual Career Coaching for alumni.
• Core topics: LinkedIn, resumes, networking, interview strategy, branding.

Skills

Communication

Sales mindset

Tools

Handshake

HubSpot

Google Workspace

Job description

Career Team is a leading workforce development organization on a mission to transform lives. We blend cutting-edge technology with compassionate, high-touch services to drive real, measurable outcomes in the lives of job seekers across the country. At Career Team, we’re solving today’s unemployment challenges with smart software, world-class trainers, dedicated case managers, dynamic job developers, and innovative partners. If you're passionate about making a difference and believe in the power of technology to transform lives, you’ll feel right at home here.

Employment Type

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

Reports To

Coaching Program Manager

Pay Rate

$30.00 / hour

Location

Remote (Virtual)

Position Summary

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.

Key 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.

Qualifications & Requirements

Minimum 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 in This Role

• 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.

Career Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Background Check Requirements

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check (including criminal, prior employment and education verification). Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current employees who apply for the position.