Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Supervise assigned team and oversee day-to-day site operations, including scheduling, case management, problem-solving, and performance management.
- Prepare and submit weekly site activity reports; provide updates to senior leadership on goals, progress, and challenges.
- Ensure team completion of all required training; plan, document, and track training needs and outcomes.
- Lead and coordinate the informed consent process with families.
- Partner with coroners, medical examiners, justices of the peace, hospitals, law enforcement, and transport providers to facilitate timely donations.
- Oversee the proper handling, processing, inventory, recovery, and shipment of brain specimens in accordance with all IRB protocols.
- Develop and implement outreach and education strategies to promote brain donation awareness and registry participation.
- Plan, coordinate, and participate in outreach events, community education sessions, educational events, and presentations.
- Document and report outreach events, participant engagement, registry enrollments, consent discussions, tissue recoveries, specimen shipments, and data collection progress.
- Develop weekly, monthly, and annual operating plans in accordance with local and programmatic strategic plan.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in management, research studies and recruitment, donor/tissue operations, or allied health leadership.
- Demonstrated leadership ability with experience supervising staff.
- Strong skills in outreach, event planning, detail-orienting reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to manage complex schedules, multiple priorities, and on-call responsibilities.
- Preferred: Master’s degree in public health, biological sciences, marketing/communications, or related field.
- Experience in tissue or organ donation, social/biological research, forensic sciences, law enforcement, or military health management.
- Prior experience in tissue recovery, brain health, and/or autopsy
- Prior experience working with military personnel, veterans, and their families.
Benefits
- KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- AD&D
- flexible spending account
- disability
- paid time off
- flexible work schedule
- professional training and development