Donor Specialist

4 days ago

San Antonio, Texas, United States KBR Full time

Title:

Donor Specialist

BELONG. CONNECT. GROW. with KBR.

Around here, we define the future. We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers. But we all share one goal – to improve the world responsibly and safely.

KBR is seeking a Donor Specialist to support our SPARC Program for KBR's Science and Space division. The SPARC program (Service Personnel Advancing Research on CTE) seeks to: 1) Provide education to service members, veterans, and their families on brain donation; 2) Register individuals for participation in the Brain Donation Awareness Registry; and 3) Recover whole specimens, process, and prepare for shipping using appropriate methods. The goal of this program is to support research that is ongoing at the Uniformed Services University's Brain Tissue Repository related to military brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

The Donor Specialist is full-time and will also be on-call on a rotating and regular basis and must be available to work nights, weekends, and holidays with previously scheduled on-call shifts.


The preponderance of duties and work time of the Donor Specialist will be focused on:

  • Approaching and educating medically competent military members and veterans about the potential to become a brain donor at time of their death, and about the opportunity for them to participate in the Brain Donation Awareness Registry.
  • Approaching and educating families of potential donors about brain donation at the time of death of their military or veteran family member.
  • Serving as the primary point of contact to be notified about potential donors and answering questions from families, healthcare workers, funeral home workers, or individuals who would like to know more about the donation program.
  • Screening donors, registering study participants, and coordinating with local coroners, medical examiners, funeral directors, medical staff, and tissue transport providers, to facilitate brain donation for research.
  • Collaborating with Peer/Family Educators on recruitment activities.
  • Performing this work under general supervision where discretion is required, such as in the homes of military members, veterans, and their family members; in the rooms of patients in healthcare facilities; in mortuaries and crematoria; and in funeral homes.

On an as needed basis, duties in tissue recovery will also be performed. Such tissue recovery duties will generally be performed in mortuaries, funeral homes, medical examiner's facilities, and healthcare facilities. The Donor Specialist may perform such duties in a solo role with no direct onsite supervision. Examples of duties will typically include:

  • Verifying donor identity
  • Reviewing next of kin consent and chain of custody documentation
  • Sectioning and processing the tissue according to the protocols of the project
  • Assisting local dieners, coroners, and pathologists with donated specimens
  • Completion of documents and records for each donation
  • Preparing the specimens for shipping
  • Coordinating the transport of the body following tissue recovery.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Protecting the rights and welfare of all human research participants involved in research in accordance with federal regulations and sponsoring agency policies and procedures
  • Adhering to and supporting all Federal regulations and DoD policies and procedures instituted to safeguard protected health information (PHI)
  • Preparing other study materials as requested, including but not limited to, informed consent document, case report forms (CRFs), enrollment logs, and study data
  • Assuring that the recovery process complies with the SPARC Statement of Work and Standard Operating Procedures, and all research terms and conditions
  • Maintaining adequate inventory of study supplies
  • Maintaining effective and ongoing communication with coordinator, managers, next of kin, and community partners during employment

Required Education/Experience: To qualify, candidates must have:

  • A bachelor's degree plus at least 2 years of experience in human subject research, tissue donation, professional clinical laboratory work, nursing, paramedic/military medic, or related similar experience, or
  • An associate's degree in a related field plus at least four years of job-related substantive experience in human subject research, tissue donation, professional clinical laboratory work, nursing, paramedic/military medic, or similar related experience.
  • In lieu of a degree, 10 years of related experience may be considered.

Preferred Education/Experience:

  • Prior experience working in military environments and interacting with service member personnel and their families.
  • Ability to speak, read, and write in Spanish.
  • Experience in the field of tissue or organ donation.

KBR Benefits:
KBR offers a wide range of benefits for their employees; we offer medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, disability benefits, retirement 401k, travel benefits, PTO, holidays, flexible work schedules, parental leave, military leave, education assistance, and the list goes on and on We also support career advancement through professional training and development.

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY AT KBR

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KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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