Strategy
Which employers should you target, and where do you actually have the right to win?
FOR SCHOOLS
Build an employer-funded enrollment channel your team can actually operate.
EFFA turns employer partnerships into a repeatable source of working-adult learners — higher-intent, often employer-funded, and better supported because the employer is invested in the outcome.
THE PROBLEM
Four barriers keep employer-funded enrollment from scaling.
Most schools know employer partnerships matter. The breakdown happens when the work moves from a relationship to an operating model.
Formation
How do you pitch, close, and formalize partnerships without making the employer do heavy lifting — and without a six-month custom negotiation every time?
Implementation
How do employees discover approved programs, raise their hand, and move into enrollment?
Operations
How do invoices, approvals, payment status, and outcomes stay visible after launch, instead of falling apart in email?
Most schools tackle these in isolation. They stall because the barriers are connected — and EFFA is built to handle all four as one system.
How EFFA solves it
1
Formalize
Propose standardized commercial terms an employer can accept in one step — not a custom contract per partner. Agreements that actually get executed instead of sitting in a drawer.
2
Transact
Invoices, approvals, and direct-bill payment move through one workflow. You generate the invoice, the employer approves, payment settles through a controlled rail — you get paid on terms you can count on.
3
Grow
Every employer becomes a repeatable source of funded students. Inquiries from employer-funded employees route to you. Enrollment becomes measurable, not anecdotal.
PREFERRED PARTNER
When you bring the employer, you keep the relationship.
When you refer an employer, that employer's employees see your programs first. Employer-funded employees arrive already knowing their benefit and their eligibility — a clearer reason to enroll now.
WHY IT COMPOUNDS
A channel you can run.
You're THE preferred partner
When you refer an employer, that employer's employees see your programs first.
Warm, benefit-confirmed demand
Employer-funded employees arrive already knowing their benefit and their eligibility — a clearer reason to enroll now.
Get paid, repeat
You generate the invoice, the employer approves, you receive payment through a clean rail — minus EFFA's flat 3.5% transaction fee. No other cost.
Show outcomes that matter
Skills and completion visibility helps your employer partners see funded education as an investment — connecting tuition spend to specific workforce skills gained, so the benefit is defensible, not just administered.
PRICING
Grow your enrollment and keep your revenue.
Traditional TPAs and OPMs take 20–50% revenue shares. EFFA charges a flat, transparent 3.5% transaction fee on direct-bill settlement — covering the infrastructure, the automation, and the employer-side experience. You keep the student, the relationship, and the revenue. Adding employer partners is free.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Don't have an employer pipeline yet?
We help you build one.
Most schools have some employer relationships. Few have a repeatable system to find, pitch, close, and activate new ones. EFFA Advisory helps you move from market view to market access — then the platform operates what you build.