Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox when accessing Candidate Home.Job Description:Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else - it's as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.
When you choose to be a force for good, you'll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life's work with an ongoing mission that's bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you're cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.
WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE GOOD 1.Provide medical consultation in transfusion medicine, blood banking and patient services to hospital customers. Maintain robust and supportive relationships with hospital customers.
2. Provide continuing medical education, including promoting the safe and effective use of blood components, through interaction with external customers and internal audiences and participation on relevant committees.
3. Direct patient service programs including but not limited to therapeutic apheresis, stem cell collection and processing, perioperative autologous cell salvage, and patient blood management.
4. Direct the medical aspects of regulated blood center operations including collections, donor management, recipient adverse reactions, suspect product investigations, and other operational systems.
5. Participate in the development of procedures, policies or position statements on medical criteria for donor eligibility and safety, component quality, and transfusion practice.
6. Serve as CLIA Laboratory Director for regulated collection activities, immunohematology laboratories, HLA laboratories, stem cell collection and processing, and/or national testing laboratories.
7. Investigate concerns and complaints related to donor complications, recipient transfusions, customer service, or hospital relationships including necessary notification of Leadership by interacting with the Donor and Client Support Center to ensure timely completion, documentation and reporting.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED - Education: M.D. or D.O. degree with post-graduate training/specialization in blood banking/transfusion medicine required.
- Must currently be board certified or eligible in internal medicine, pediatrics or clinical pathology.
- Board certified or eligible in blood banking/transfusion medicine or equivalent is highly desirable.
- Current state licenses, certifications, and specialty boards may be required.
- Experience: Minimum 10 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required. Experience in blood banking/transfusion medicine, blood center operations, or medical/scientific research is desired.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in immunohematology, including red cell serology, antibody identification, and compatibility testing, is required.
Management Experience: N/A
- Skills & Abilities: Customer Focus, teamwork and collaboration ensure customer satisfaction and maximize internal/external relationships.
- Effective presentation Skills with a variety of internal/external individuals and groups.
- Possesses active and attentive listening considering all opinions.
- Ability to effectively set priorities and apply sound judgement to eliminate roadblocks to accomplishing goals.
- Working knowledge of immunohematology principles and laboratory practices, with the ability to provide expert clinical consultation on complex immunohematologic cases.
- Ability to work on a team.
This position is designed as a
remote role, allowing flexibility in the primary work location. Requiring a
regular onsite presence and travel (requiring 8-10 hours of onsite work per week) to support business needs. The selected candidate will be expected to travel periodically and be onsite within the designated region as needed. This position will NOT be eligible for relocation assistance. Travel: Must be willing to reside in or near
Greater Philadelphia area (or regularly travel to this area)
*Combination of candidate's education and general experience satisfies requirements so long as the total years equate to description's minimum education and general experience years combined (Management experience and certifications cannot be substituted).
WHAT WILL SET YOU APART
Fellowship training or significant experience:
- Stem Cell and Cellular Therapy, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, and/or Regenerative Medicine
- Proven leadership in expanding clinical programs and driving innovation.
- Experience in developing and implementing cutting-edge medical practices in transfusion and cellular therapies.
- Exceptional verbal and written skills for engaging stakeholders, including hospital leadership, donors, and external partners
The salary range for this position is $195,500-$250,000
This job will be posted for a minimum of five business days and extended if the applicant pool needs to be expanded.
Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role.
*Combination of candidate's education and general experience satisfies requirements so long as the total years equate to description's minimum education and general experience years combined (Management experience cannot be substituted).
Physical RequirementsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The work environment will consist of moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phones and printers, light traffic). The employee must have the ability to work in a small cubicle and have the ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.
DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
BENEFITS FOR YOU:We take care of you, while you take care of others. As a mission-based organization, we believe our team needs great support to do great work. Our comprehensive benefits help you in balancing home and work. With our resources and perks, you have amazing possibilities at the American Red Cross to advance the learn.
• Medical, Dental Vision plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO + Holidays
• 401K with 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
• Service Awards and recognition
Apply now! Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to make your career a force for good! 
