CHIEF PROGRESS OFFICER

Our Blood Institute (OBI) is seeking a Chief Progress Officer (CPO) for its Oklahoma City headquarters location. The CPO will provide leadership, guidance and oversight for community facing blood center operations to include: Donor Recruitment; Community Relations, Contact Center, Volunteer Services, Development, Donor Services (whole blood and automated blood collections in mobile and fixed site locations) across subcenter (8) and satellite (9) facilities. Assure donor and product safety through maintenance of cGMP practices and compliance with FDA, AABB, and other regulatory standards. Recruit and foster the talent required to staff a dependable, high performance, engaged, and innovative team now and for the future. Develop reliable annual budgets at the organizational level and for supervised departments, with an eye to maximizing efficiencies and expanding revenue streams. Recommend new technologies and capital expenditures that are necessary to keep the center's operations at the leading edge of performance. Maintain productive industry collaborations and relationships via group purchasing organizations and professional/industry associations. Work with executive leadership to shape strategic plans to benefit the organization's principle functions of blood product acquisition, processing, and distribution.

Location: Oklahoma City, OK

Salary: Competitive salary based on education and/or experience

Benefits: Health, dental, vision, life insurance, long term disability, 401(k), paid time off, annual tuition reimbursement, holiday pay, etc.

Days: Monday through Friday

Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• Graduate degree (management, administrative, scientific, or quantitative field, preferred).
• Fifteen years (min.) of progressive responsibility in healthcare, having attained a senior executive position.
• Ten years (min.) blood center experience (accountability in multiple operational areas including donor recruitment and community relations, preferred).
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to manage numerous tasks effectively in a fast paced, episodically stressful, mission critical role.
• Self-starting mindset yielding dependable delivery of accountabilities with minimum direction.
• Ability to function conversantly in a technology-dependent, complex systems environment.
• Aptitude in budgeting, financial reporting, and economic decision making.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills.
• Evident personal and professional values, including honesty, integrity, reliability, and compassion.
• Workplace traits to include: positive outlook, team orientation, and respectful sociability.
• Evident passion for our essential mission as the Donor to Patient Lifeline.
• Residence within daily commuting distance of downtown Oklahoma City.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively across our service are, to include occasional overnight stays.

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