Organ Donation Coordinator ICU RN or Respiratory Therapist​/NIGHTS - Boston, MA

Company Description

Join our award-winning team and be part of an organization recognized as the Boston Business Journal's #3 Best Places to Work in 2025 and the Boston Globe's Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts from ! Our mission to save and heal lives through organ and tissue donation unites our employees and inspires our work every day

New England Donor Services (NEDS) coordinates organ and tissue donation in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, the eastern counties of Vermont and Bermuda. Responsible for one of the largest of the 55 Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) that make up the nation’s donation system, NEDS works with over 200 hospitals and serves nearly 15 million people in our region, screening nearly 55,000 potential donor referrals annually.

With nearly $150M in operating revenues, NEDS employs 399 clinical and non-clinical staff members throughout New England and across the country.

Our vision is to be a leader in the development and implementation of strategies to increase the life-saving and life-enhancing gifts of organ and tissue donation through effective relationships with our clinical partners, donor families and the communities we serve.

New England Donor Services is seeking an experienced ICU RN, Critical Care RN, Trauma Nurse or Critical Care Respiratory Therapist to join our team. As a Donation Coordinator you will respond on-site to organ donor referrals to provide clinical expertise in donor evaluation, donor management, organ allocation and organ recovery.

Now interviewing for the next New Hire Donation Academy Orientation class scheduled for September 2026 for our Fulltime 36 Hours a week - Nights Hybrid position.

You will blend high level clinical and people skills to educate hospital staff on the donation process, work with donor families to obtain consent for donation and work with multiple surgical teams and critical care staff to optimize organs for transplantation. Success in this role requires a self-assured professional who has keen clinical assessment skills, the ability to be flexible and remain calm and effective in highly charged and clinically complex situations.

• Orientation:
  After a general company wide week long onsite (Waltham, MA) orientation, you will participate in a specialized organ donation training program.
• The New Hire Donation Academy is 3 days/week for first 3 weeks in Waltham office (generally Tuesday through Thursday on a day shift) and additional training in Waltham office throughout orientation program. Once the classroom training is completed, new hires will participate in a mix of 16-hour day and 12-hour night on-call shifts. Average 14 shifts per 4-week schedule + trainings + meetings.
  
  Significant travel with personal vehicle throughout all of New England is expected. Mileage and other reimbursements available.
• Independent: 12-hour night shifts, 8:00pm
  -8:00am shift. (3 shifts per week, on a 4 week schedule - up to 40hrs week) + trainings + meetings. Significant travel with personal vehicle throughout New England is expected. Mileage and other reimbursements available.

• Optimal candidates have critical care or trauma experience with medical/clinical credentials including experience managing complicated clinical event
• Must have valid driver’s license and insurance (extensive driving throughout New England is required) and have reliable transportation.
• Ideal candidate must have the following:
  • Critical thinking skills and keen clinical assessment skills
  • Be compassionate and have conflict resolution skills
  • Able to sit, stand or bend for extended period of time
  • Have great work ethic and be forward thinking
  • This position requires travel to Waltham Headquarters and various hospitals throughout New England

Candidates will be required to travel by personal vehicle to meet the duties and responsibilities of this position. Must maintain the requirements of an “eligible driver” including being at least 21 years old, maintaining an acceptable Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) and required minimum personal automobile insurance per NEDS automobile policy.

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