Fieldwork Placement Specialist
The Fieldwork Placement Specialist (FPS) is a member of our academic team and is responsible for the partner outreach, fieldwork placement reservations, and contract coordination for level II placements for online OTA and OT bridge students. Fieldwork Level II placements are the final clinical requirement before graduation. OTA students complete two, 8-week fieldwork II rotations and OT Bridge students complete two, 12-week rotations. For both programs, fieldwork II rotations run in Fall, Spring and Summer terms. The Fieldwork Placement Specialist is accountable for nurturing and maintaining relationships with current health care partners and developing new partnerships for these rotations. The FPS is responsible for an assigned group of geographically diverse student placements but will not work directly with students.
Target hire date is ideally between Dec 2026 to mid Jan 2027.
What You Will Do:
- Meets placement benchmark goals established for each team and future terms.
- Provides high-touch fieldwork II site engagement to new and current healthcare partners.
- Places assigned pipeline of students into fieldwork rotations on time within each student’s program plan and per university and program policy.
- Ensures viable healthcare partners for current and future rotations in their geographies.
- Works collaboratively with the education partner’s academic fieldwork team, other FPSs, and other stakeholders.
- Other duties as assigned.
What You Will Have:
- Minimum one year of customer service, consultative sales, or relationship management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- High level written and oral communication skills and attention to detail to accurately present information persuasively and professionally.
- Self-driven, organized, and the ability to guide and motivate others.
- Creative problem-solving attributes and the ability to multitask and adapt to changing priorities and deadlines.
- Positive attitude with a high level of energy and enthusiasm.
- Must successfully pass a background investigation
- Experience and working knowledge of CRM System (Dynamics) to enter, track, report, analyze and maintain student and partner information
- Project management software (Smartsheet) or spreadsheet experience for tracking additional work functions
- Comfort in using various healthcare partner enterprise systems to request and track placements (Exxat One, MCE ACEMAPP, etc)
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Bachelor's degree required; 1+ year customer service, consultative sales, or relationship management experience; strong communication and organizational skills; CRM (Dynamics) and project management software (Smartsheet) experience; must pass background investigation.
Key Responsibilities
- coordinating placements
- managing partnerships
- tracking student data
Skills & Tools
Microsoft Dynamics, Smartsheet, Exxat One, ACEMAPP
Job Details
- Category: Education services
- Seniority: Entry Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — United States
- Languages: English
About Orbis Education
An education services company that manages fieldwork placements for healthcare students. — Industry: Education