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Concorde Career Colleges

Medical Assist Extern Coordinator

🇺🇸 Jacksonville, Florida 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $50K 💻 Career Services 🗓️ October 23rd, 2026
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Edtech.com's Summary

Concorde Career Colleges is hiring a Medical Assist Extern Coordinator for its Jacksonville campus. The role assigns, tracks, and reports on student externships and guides students through the move from classroom instruction to hands-on externship, as a program faculty member within Academic Affairs.

Highlights
  • Meet the assigned extern-to-hire target, with a standard of a 50% extern-to-hire rate.
  • Develop new externship sites and help build student job leads.
  • Work with the Program Director and Academic Dean to assign students to externship sites.
  • Visit externship sites, complete site visitation reports, and supervise externship training in line with Academic Affairs policies.
  • Run externship orientation, collect timesheets and reports from students and sites, and review externship evaluations for the Program Director.
  • Advise externs, join staff, departmental, and Advisory Board meetings, and take part in commencement ceremonies.
  • Instruct classes as needed.
  • Three years of practical work experience, including phlebotomy, immunizations, venipuncture, injections, pharmacology, EKG, wound care, and vital signs, plus a current Florida Medical Assistant certification; an associate's or bachelor's degree is preferred.
  • On-site Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, with a current car insurance policy and unrestricted driver's license required.
  • Annual pay of $50,000.

Medical Assist Extern Coordinator Full Description

Overview: 

Medical Assist Extern Coordinator

The Externship Coordinator assigns, tracks and reports all activity related to the externship portion of the institution’s programs and facilitates the student’s transition from didactics to externship. As a program faculty member and representative of the Academic Affairs Department, they are responsible to assure attainment of student training objectives for the externship in qualification for graduation.
 
Schedule: Monday - Friday (7:30 am - 4:30 pm). 
Compensation: $50,000.00/ Annually
 
 
In addition to joining an organization with an outstanding mission, Concorde is happy to provide the following Benefits You'll Love - 
 
  • Tuition Waiver: Enjoy a tuition waiver after 6 months of employment for you AND your immediate family offered at UTI and Concorde campuses
  • Paid Time Off: Competitive paid time off programs for employees (Vacation, Sick, Flexible)
  • Retirement Matching: 50% match on the first 6% of your contributions after 90 days
  • Paid Parental Leave: 4 weeks of paid leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents to bond with a new baby
  • Competitive Insurance: Health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your dependents
  • Pet Insurance: Competitive coverage for your furry family members through ASPCA
  • Health Plan Enrollment: Eligibility starts first of the month following completing one full month of employment
 Responsibilities: 
Principal Accountabilities & Deliverables
  • Achieve assigned extern to hire metric. The standard is 50% Extern to Hire rate.
  • Develop new externship sites.
  • Assist in the development of student job leads.
  • Working with the Program Director, in consultation with the Academic Dean, assign students to their externship sites.
  • Conduct site visitations for assigned externs, completing site visitation reports and documentation on a timely basis.
  • Supervise externship training in compliance with Academic Affairs Department policies and guidelines.
  • Coordinate the exchange of externship information, such as timesheets, with the Program Director/Registrar.
  • Attend and direct assigned externship orientation.
  • Assure prompt and accurate receipt of requisite reports from students and sites.
  • Review all externship evaluations and direct information, as appropriate, to the Program Director.
  • Advise externs as needed.
  • Attend staff, departmental and Advisory Board meetings as directed.
  • Participate in commencement ceremonies
  • Communicate daily or as necessary with the Program Director.
  • Communicate daily or as necessary with the Graduate Employment Director.
  • Maintain a log of outside activities and furnish to the Program Director.
  • Promote and maintain a team concept within the Academic Affairs Department.
  • Maintain professional dress as a representative of the school.
  • Assure compliance with all School policies and procedures.
  • Assist with PAC meetings as requested.
  • Remain current on developments, practices and procedures, and equipment relating to their program and professional specialty
  • Instruct classes as needed.
  • Perform other such duties as assigned.
  • Other duties as assigned
 Qualifications:
Education / Experience
  • 3 Years of practical work experience
  • Experience in phlebotomy, immunizations, venipuncture, injections, pharmacology, EKG, wound care, GYN procedures and vital signs
  • Current Medical Assistant certification in FL
  • Associate or Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • Self-starter, excellent organizational, problem solving, communication and customer service skills.
  • Marketing and/or sales experience a plus.
  • Must have current car insurance and valid unrestricted driver’s license.
  • Must meet extern site contracts requirements.
Standard Abilities
  • Able and willing to:
    • Communicate, think, learn, and reason
    • Use computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to process transactions, store documents, enter data, or perform assigned tasks
    • Safely ambulate and/or maneuver when on-site at Company locations
    • Demonstrate and utilize active listening, inductive reasoning, information ordering and category flexibility
  • Ability to use good judgment, problem-solving and decision-making skills
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive information with discretion
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where deadlines are essential and multiple projects are worked simultaneously
  • Ability to gain, understand and apply information and data as it relates essential functions of the position
  • Ability to foster long-term relationships with stakeholders