Information Standards Specialist (Blood and Tissue Banking)

ICCBBA Job Posting for Information Standards Specialist
(Science Degree Required)

Your Contributions to the Team:

• Use your science-related degree to help our global customers understand how to apply safe labeling concepts to blood, cellular therapy, and tissue products.
• Apply your detail-oriented skills to ensure complete and accurate database entries for blood and tissue product codes.
• Use your writing and proofreading skills to review, revise, and write policies and procedures relevant to our technical activities.
• As a great communicator, interact with medical professionals helping them understand proper implementation of our labeling requirements for blood and tissue products.
• Use your critical thinking skills to help prepare and perform validations of our processes and products.
• Exercise your sense of adventure by traveling and attending blood banking and tissue banking conferences worldwide.

ICCBBA’s Contributions to your Personal and Professional Development:

• Provide training that builds upon your scientific knowledge and teach you about the specific requirements of the ISBT 128 international labeling requirements for blood, cellular therapy, and tissue products.
• Provide support and feedback on your ongoing training.
• Provide opportunities to attend training courses and continuing education seminars that will further develop your understanding of the blood and tissue banking industries.
• Provide the tools necessary to be a successful team member.

We as an ICCBBA Team:

• Enhance patient safety by promoting and managing the ISBT 128 international information standard for use with medical products of human origin.
• Manage international information standards for transfusion medicine, transplantation, and other applications of medical products of human origin in support of traceability, biovigilance, and patient safety.
• Liaise with health authorities, regulators, scientific and professional societies, user communities, and vendors on standardization in terminology and information technology.
• Provide educational programs to promote the value of, and need for, information standards and policies to support traceability and biovigilance.
• Provide technical consultation regarding the implementation and management of ISBT 128.
• Lead in the continued development of common data structures for information technology, data processing, exchange and transfer, and labeling for medical products of human origin.

A Typical Day for an ICCBBA Information Standards Specialist:

• Provide technical help desk support to customers in an efficient and timely manner.
• Maintain an awareness of developments in the fields of transfusion and transplantation, and apply this knowledge to the on-going maintenance of the ISBT 128 Standard.
• Undertake projects of a technical nature as assigned.
• Report to the Technical Manager.
• Accept daily work assignments and training from the other Technical team members.
• Collaborate with other ICCBBA team members on interdepartmental activities.
• Provide input and support to the other members of the Technical Department.

While Traveling for ICCBBA:

• Participate in, and represent ICCBBA at, professional meetings and congresses.
• Participate in the promotion of ISBT 128 through coordination of, and attendance at, the ICCBBA booth at trade shows.
• Promote the use of ISBT 128 in the transfusion and transplantation communities by participation in meetings and presentation of talks on behalf of ICCBBA.
• Support implementation of ISBT 128 worldwide.

Benefits:

• Health and Life insurance, with optional Dental and Vision.
• 403(b) retirement plan - ICCBBA will contribute at least 3% of the employee’s salary each year even if the employee chooses not to deposit anything into their 403(b) plan.
• 20 days of accrued PTO (Paid Time Off) per year.
• 11 paid holidays per year: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Two Floating Holidays.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $68,640.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Redlands, CA 92374