Donation Liaison

Donation Liaison

LifeSource is hiring a Donation Liaison to play a vital role in building trust and relationships with potential donor families and healthcare teams in their designated regions - with the goal of increasing advocacy for organ, eye and tissue donation and creating invested hospital partners supporting donation. This includes carrying out individual donation decisions, achieving authorization for donation, advocating for potential donors and recipients, and collaboratively developing approach plans, ongoing family support, and communication. The Donation Liaison will also serve as the LifeSource expert for assigned hospitals and territories, including the delivery of education and training to maximize the donation process within hospitals, driving program policy development and health system alignment, tracking performance targets, leading action plan development, and utilizing hospital and internal data and key performance indicators to drive outcomes through oversight, analysis and sharing feedback. This role is similar to an account manager or territory manager. As a Donation Liaison, you'll advance our life-saving work by performing the following job duties:

Authorization: Carries out authorization processes in the absence of first-person authorization. When FPA is present, carry out this fulfillment and individual donation decision. Guides families and hospital care teams through donation processes with respectful consideration of culture, beliefs, and grieving process. Responsible for authorization and family support processes from time of referral through post-recovery follow-up. Collaboratively strengthens hospital support, structure, processes in a way that leads to excellence in authorization rates. Accountable for overall territory and individual authorization performance metrics.

Hospital Development: Accountable for driving growth in hospital donation program outcomes. Ongoing monitoring and analysis of donation program performance. Maintains a working hospital partnership through high visibility within hospital and units by developing, cultivating, and building strong relationships within hospital systems. When case-stopping barriers are present, partner with hospital care teams and leaders to navigate and resolve. Develop and implement hospital-specific donation strategic plans aligned with LifeSource donation goals and hospital-specific donation programs. Develops and maintains hospital-specific guidance resources for LifeSource. Drives consistency in process and aligns internal processes with hospital agreement requirements. Collaboratively reviews hospital policies and incorporates donation and industry updates. Independently leads hospital-based strategic implementations, including project management for quality, regulatory and process improvement initiatives. Provides audience-focused donation education to drive process and growth, and collaboration.

Stewardship: Leads navigation of donation-related escalations, in partnership with hospital executive leadership. Leads donation-related strategies and outcomes in assigned territory. Leads in alignment with an equitable and diverse work environment. Performs other duties as required to serve as LifeSource leader and fulfill donation in assigned territory. Demonstrates LifeSource values. Provides Preceptor duties. Supervision during clinical practice and facilitates the application of theory to practice for LifeSource team members.

Qualifications: Requires combined education and experience equivalent to seven (7) years in healthcare, relationship management or leadership responsibilities. Demonstrated calm and ability to connect in high-impact, high-emotion settings including death and dying. Requires experience leading project management and execution toward defined outcomes. Strong data analysis experience and demonstrated ability to achieve data-driven process improvement. Extensive background in interactive education delivery and presentation skills with adult learners with the ability to assess knowledge retention. Experience with strategic planning and independent project leadership. Must maintain a valid driver license and have reliable personal automobile to be used with company reimbursement using IRS guidelines. Able to travel within your service area regularly. Must be able to travel by air as needed. Ability to self-direct, prioritize initiatives and organize workload. Demonstrated ability to speak persuasively and lead through influence. Bilingual Preferred. Hospital EMR experience (EPIC, Cerner, Meditech, etc.) preferred.

Working Conditions/Schedule: Full-time schedule consists of three 12-hour shifts per week, night shift: 8:00pm-8:30am plus 8 hours of administrative flex time per two-week pay period (will include every third weekend rotation). Scheduled days will vary and be defined in advance. An established team rotation schedule of 7-day coverage per hospital donation needs, including weekdays, weekends, and holidays. Affected team members in Category II never or rarely have exposure to bloodborne pathogens and do not have a potential for this exposure or handle materials that could spread infection (less than one opportunity per month). However, they have regular interaction with staff in patient or donor areas in a hospital or clinic setting while performing their assigned job duties. Frequently lift and carry objects up to 30 pounds. Projected offer rate range: $36-43/hour, based on relevant experience.