Jobs at LifeSouth Community Blood Centers

Coordinates employee training schedules, assignments, records, and progress. Collaborates with department leaders to identify training needs, supports employees and trainers, helps develop materials, facilitates sessions, and evaluates program effectiveness. Requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, LMS proficiency, and a valid driver’s license for travel.

Manages data integrity, inventory, and workflows for cord blood and cellular therapy products. Responsibilities include maintaining spreadsheets and databases, generating reports and communications, and coordinating procurement, handling, storage, and shipment logistics for products used in research. Requires strong organization, record-keeping, multitasking, independent work, and customer service skills. The role may involve varied hours, overtime, and weekends.

Provides administrative support to the District Director by managing calendars, correspondence, phone calls, travel schedules, confidential files, reports, and meeting materials. Produces promotional materials for blood drives, maintains departmental inventory, coordinates bulk mailings, writes thank-you letters, assists with on-site recruitment, and confirms blood drive and public relations requirements.

Oversee regional blood center and mobile collection operations, donor recruitment, inventory, purchasing, budgeting, staffing, and department performance. Set and monitor blood inventory and recruitment goals, implement corrective actions, supervise department leaders, oversee hiring, and represent LifeSouth within the community. The role requires effective management, reporting, communication, administrative, personnel, and blood banking software skills.

Supervise evening operations of an accredited immunohematology reference laboratory, manage staff (hiring, training, scheduling, evaluations), ensure regulatory compliance and quality, and resolve complex blood banking and compatibility issues to support safe patient transfusion.

First-line IT support handling calls and email, troubleshooting hardware and software, documenting and resolving tickets or escalating, updating users, maintaining knowledge base, monitoring queues, and participating in training to support on-site users in Dunwoody and Marietta.

Process and document cord blood units, maintain donor/CBU records, perform QC and equipment maintenance (including liquid nitrogen storage), interface with collection staff, ensure regulatory compliance, and support training and quality activities in a cGMP lab environment.

Support Medical Technologists by processing and preparing specimens, performing basic and waived testing, DNA extractions, equipment maintenance, inventory management, temperature monitoring, and documentation to ensure quality laboratory operations. Schedule may include evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Manage storage, inventory, preparation, documentation, and shipment of blood products per SOPs and regulatory standards. Inspect, quarantine, pack, and ship products, monitor temperatures and equipment, maintain accurate records, assist with deviations and customer issues, and provide high-quality customer service in a fast-paced blood bank environment.

Lead an AABB-accredited immunohematology reference laboratory, supervise and train technologists, ensure regulatory and accreditation compliance (CLIA, FDA, AABB, HIPAA), oversee quality assurance, manage corrective actions and reporting, and communicate technical results to clinical partners and hospital blood banks.

Obtain informed consent from expectant mothers for cord blood donation, educate families at bedside, complete and maintain accurate documentation, ensure regulatory compliance, oversee proper storage and shipment of cord blood units and supplies, and coordinate collection logistics and tracking to ensure timely completion prior to maternal discharge.