Roles
Every role in donation and transplant
Grouped by the kind of work, with how many are open now. Open a role for its postings and what employers post for pay.
Donation frontline and coordination
291 postingsOrgan Recovery Coordinator
Carry the donor case from referral through recovery: evaluate the donor, direct medical management, allocate the organs, and coordinate the operating room, packaging and transport.
123 postings
Family Services Coordinator
Respond to donor referrals and sit with the family: explain brain death and donation, ask for authorization, take the medical and social history, and support them throughout.
44 postings
Referral Intake and Triage Coordinator
Take hospital referrals of deaths and imminent deaths, review the chart and screen each patient for organ and tissue donation, and in many roles respond on site to evaluate the donor.
37 postings
Hospital Development Coordinator
Build and sustain the hospital partnerships that make timely, complete referrals possible.
32 postings
Family Support Specialist
Support the family of a potential donor through the donation process: respond to the referral, hold the donation conversation, obtain authorization and the donor risk interview, and stay with the family through recovery.
18 postings
Donor Evaluation Responder
Respond on site to donor referrals at your assigned hospitals: evaluate donor potential with the administrator on call, support the family conversation, and teach hospital staff about donation.
17 postings
Community Outreach Specialist
Build partnerships with schools, faith, civic and community groups and DMV offices, give presentations and run events, and grow donor registrations across the service area.
7 postings
Donor Family Aftercare Coordinator
Send donor families grief resources and organ and tissue outcome letters, handle correspondence between donor families and recipients, and plan remembrance events.
4 postings
Funeral Home, Forensic and EMS Liaison
Build working relationships with medical examiners, coroners, funeral homes and EMS so donation can go forward in their cases, and gather case information on medical examiner referrals.
4 postings
Clinical Coordinator
Provide ICU nursing care to brain-dead organ donors in a hospital donor care unit, working with the care team to keep the organs viable for recovery.
1 posting
Faith-Based Community Liaison
Build relationships with faith leaders and congregations and deliver culturally and religiously appropriate donation education at houses of worship and interfaith events.
1 posting
Advanced Practice Clinician, Donor Management
Evaluate and medically manage organ donors, perform procedures such as bronchoscopy, line placement and liver biopsy under the medical director, and train organ recovery coordinators in them.
1 posting
Donor Recovery Anesthesia Provider
Provide anesthesia care in the OR during organ recovery from brain-dead donors: ventilation, hemodynamic and vasoactive support, fluids and invasive monitoring.
1 posting
Family Services Clinical Consultant
Consult, debrief and support the family team through the hardest conversations.
1 posting
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Transplant center and living donation
147 postingsClinical Transplant Coordinator
Coordinate candidates and recipients through evaluation, transplant, and follow-up at the transplant center.
84 postings
Transplant Pharmacist
Manage transplant patients' immunosuppression and drug levels: run pharmacokinetic consults, round with the transplant team, and counsel patients at discharge.
35 postings
Transplant Social Worker
Assess and support transplant patients and families from evaluation through waitlist, transplant and recovery: psychosocial evaluation, counseling, resources and discharge planning.
13 postings
Transplant Financial Coordinator
Clear candidates financially for transplant: insurance authorization, benefits and coverage.
10 postings
Living Donor Coordinator
Evaluate and coordinate living donors from first inquiry through surgery and follow-up.
3 postings
Transplant Nurse
Care for transplant patients in clinic and on the unit: assess them, teach them and their families, plan discharge, and handle phone triage before and after transplant.
1 posting
Independent Living Donor Advocate
Advocate for living donor candidates through referral, evaluation, surgery and follow-up, independent of the recipient's team, making sure each decision is informed and free of pressure.
1 posting
Organ recovery, perfusion, and surgical
68 postingsOrgan Perfusion Specialist and Preservationist
Travel to the donor hospital to prepare and run organ preservation and perfusion equipment, assist the recovery team, and package and transport organs for transplant.
21 postings
Non-Physician Organ Recovery Specialist
Run the donor OR: set up the room and coordinate visiting surgical teams, first assist, flush and preserve the organs, then package, label and send them; senior specialists lead the recovery.
18 postings
Recovery Surgeon
Recover abdominal or thoracic organs from deceased donors in the operating room, evaluating organ quality as you go, on a rotating 24/7 call schedule.
14 postings
Surgical Technologist
Scrub organ and tissue recovery cases: set up instruments with aseptic technique, run the back table, and help with perfusion, biopsies and packaging.
6 postings
Organ Reconditioning and Advanced Perfusion Technologist
Run normothermic regional perfusion during DCD recoveries, ex vivo lung perfusion, or portable organ perfusion devices to preserve, assess and optimize donor organs before transplant.
6 postings
Surgical First Assistant
First assist the recovery surgeon during organ recovery, travel on call to donor hospitals, and help with kidney pumping and organ preservation.
3 postings
Allocation, placement, and logistics
65 postingsCourier
Drive and hand-carry organs, tissue, specimens and teams with chain of custody intact from the donor hospital to the receiving program.
42 postings
Organ Placement Specialist
Work organ offers: at an OPO, run the match and place organs with transplant centers; at a transplant center, screen incoming offers with the surgeon and arrange recovery and transport.
17 postings
Transport and Logistics Coordinator
Plan and run the transport and logistics that move organs, tissue, and teams on time.
6 postings
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Tissue and eye
126 postingsTissue Recovery Specialist
Recover donated tissue such as bone and skin with sterile technique, examine the donor and document the case, and package tissue for transplant, on a call rotation.
53 postings
Tissue Processing Technician
Process, package, and prepare donated tissue to standard for distribution.
38 postings
Ocular and Eye Recovery Technician
Recover corneas and whole eyes from deceased donors under aseptic technique, review charts for donor eligibility, and package and ship the tissue for transplant and research.
16 postings
Tissue Referral Coordinator
Take the tissue and eye referral, screen eligibility, and secure authorization by phone.
12 postings
Tissue Coordinator and Distribution Specialist
Inspect, stock, pack and ship tissue grafts to hospitals and surgeons, keep inventory and storage conditions in spec, and keep the shipping and chain-of-custody records.
7 postings
Laboratory and diagnostics
31 postingsHistocompatibility Technologist and Specialist
Run HLA typing, antibody identification and donor and recipient crossmatches in the histocompatibility lab to determine transplant compatibility.
16 postings
Histocompatibility Laboratory Director
Lead the HLA laboratory as its director: oversee HLA typing, antibody testing and crossmatching for transplant, interpret results, and keep the lab compliant.
11 postings
Donor Testing and Serology Specialist
Run the infectious disease testing, including nucleic acid testing, that clears a donor for recovery and transplant.
2 postings
Donor Imaging and Radiologic Technologist
Perform CT scans, portable X-rays and echocardiograms on organ donors in the donor care unit so physicians can evaluate the organs.
1 posting
Transplant and Donor Pathology
Examine donated tissue and review tissue donor records to determine donor eligibility as the physician designee, and report significant findings to medical examiners.
1 posting
Compliance, regulatory, and quality
38 postingsQuality and Performance Improvement Specialist
Review donor records for accuracy and compliance, run performance improvement projects, and investigate and correct process problems in donation and transplant.
26 postings
Regulatory and Accreditation Specialist
Track the regulations and standards that govern donation and transplant, run internal audits and inspection readiness, and drive corrective action on what audits find.
12 postings
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Data, analytics, informatics, and IT
12 postingsIT and Systems Specialist
Support the OPO's computers, networks, phones and software: help desk and desktop support, accounts and system monitoring, HIPAA security, and building internal applications.
8 postings
Donation and Transplant Analytics Specialist
Turn donation and transplant data into reports, dashboards and analyses for leadership, from referral and death record reviews to program outcome and performance measures.
2 postings
Clinical Informatics Specialist
Keep donor records complete and compliant across DonorNet and the OPO's systems, pass on culture and biopsy results, and prepare the reports owed to OPTN, UNOS and CMS.
1 posting
Business Intelligence Analyst
Build the dashboards and reports that track donation activity and operations, and turn the data into performance baselines and recommendations for leadership.
1 posting
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Administration, education, and leadership
100 postingsAdministrator and Program Manager
Lead donation and transplant programs and clinical operations, from staffing to performance.
80 postings
Education and Training Specialist
Build and run orientation, training and competency programs for donation, tissue and transplant staff, from curriculum and classroom sessions to coaching in the field.
14 postings
Administrator On Call
Lead donation cases on call from referral through recovery: decide donor suitability, testing and allocation questions, direct the coordinators, and make staffing and resource calls.
4 postings
Medical Director
Provide physician medical direction for an OPO or transplant program.
2 postings
Research
6 postingsClinical Research Coordinator
Run transplant research studies day to day: screen and consent patients, collect samples and study data, and keep IRB and sponsor records in order.
4 postings
Research Nurse
Run clinical trial patient care in a transplant program: carry out study protocols, coordinate research visits and safety, and keep drug and device trials compliant.
2 postings
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Engineering and advanced technology
none todayAlso in this group, nothing posted today
Business operations and corporate services
33 postingsFacilities, Administration and Operations
Support the OPO's leaders and offices: run the front desk, calendars and correspondence, and keep clinical supplies, inventory and equipment stocked, tracked and maintained.
11 postings
Finance and Accounting
Keep the OPO's books: accounts payable and receivable, payroll, month-end close and financial reporting, budgets, and the cost accounting behind the Medicare cost report.
9 postings
Corporate Communications and Marketing
Plan and produce the organization's communications: messaging, media and internal communications, marketing materials, design and brand.
9 postings
People and Human Resources
Recruit, develop and keep the people who do the work.
4 postings
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