{"id":678817,"url":"https://alion.io/job/donornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead","title":"Clinical Skills Program Lead","company":{"id":673107,"name":"Donor Network West","domain":"donornetworkwest.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/donornetworkwest","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":24,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":1742,"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Ramon, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":158303,"max":178487,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":178487},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-04-21T23:17:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-04-21","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T21:50:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":207,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":206},"description":"POSITION SUMMARY\nThe Clinical Skills Program Lead (CSPL), supports the professional growth of the organ operations team. In collaboration with the Clinical Skills Trainers and Director of Clinical Skills & Practices, this role designs and oversees Clinical Skills and Practices (CSP) programs and operations and participates in delivering and evaluating learner-centered and performancebased curricula. The CSPL participates in leading train-the-trainer and mentorship programs, coordinates training, and fosters continuous improvement while ensuring programs and team operations meet industry and organizational quality requirements and best practices. This role participates as a change agent for the organization, identifying and responding to opportunities to improve individual and organizational performance as well as effectiveness of Clinical Skills and Practices programs and operations.\nESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nThe essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Employees may perform other duties as assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nProgram Management\nOversees, participates in, and assists team leaders with scheduling clinical staff training, development, coaching, counseling, appraisal, recognition, and career development and advancement. \nSupports team leadership to provide input and assistance with corrective improvement actions such as Focused or Formal Learning or improvement associated with corrective action issuance or performance improvement plans.\nIn conjunction with the department leadership team, may be asked to assist with clinical candidate sourcing and interviewing. \nActivates the DNWest Quality Systems occurrence reporting system and completes follow up with direct reports and leadership as assigned.\nWorks with the Clinical Skills Trainers and other DNWest educators in identifying, developing, implementing, and updating DNWest, guidelines, and job aids. \nEnsures compliance with established quality assurance standards as well as local, state, and federal regulations relating to organ procurement to demonstrate commitment to quality.\nParticipates in departmental and organizational strategic planning focused on meeting goals and key performance measures.\nSupports the oversight and management of the Sim Lab, vendor management, asset oversight, and clinical supplies inventory oversight.\nAttends meetings and events as requested and assigned.\nWorks with other members of the management team to attain DNWest’s organizational goals and performance metrics. Familiar with all aspects of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services benchmarking and speaks to continued improvement to meet measures.\nManages a portfolio of curriculum development and training programs and projects, and monitors team resources.\nCoordinates with stakeholders, subject matter experts, and educators to strategize and manage the design and delivery of multiple curriculum development projects. \nImplements the need for program evaluation plans and reports objectives and key results.\nIdentifies program risks and escalates for solutions in a timely and clear fashion.\nTraining Design and Management\nUnder the direction of the Director of Clinical Skills and Practices and in coordination with the CSTs and other DNWest educational staff, oversees the development and implementation of individual and group clinical training programs. Helps with ongoing assessments of clinical staff performance as well as with assessments of training effectiveness\nEstablishes, administers, delivers, and evaluates learner-centered and performance-based curricula, instructional content, and competency assessments. \nProvides didactic, in-person training and skills and competency assessments, both for new and established clinical staff. Acts as a resource and coach, role modeling best practices and using all available resources.\nCarries out routine and ad hoc check-ins with new and existing clinical staff, develops training plans or roadmaps, and acts as an ongoing resource for clinical staff during and after the orientation process.\nDevelopments and implements hands-on simulation training in collaboration with the other CSP staff. \nParticipates in, develops, facilitates, and leads various education and development programs (i.e.: Clinical Residency, Clinical Workshops, etc.). \nAnalyzes learning needs by consulting with leadership, managers, and other stakeholders to identify performance gaps, goals, and success indicators.\nOversees the development and training of clinical preceptor training and of the staff precepting; oversees activities of preceptors monitoring to ensure compliance with training processes and procedures.\nAssesses organizational factors that may address performance gaps or impact training outcomes and makes recommendations to stakeholders. \nDesigns learning solutions and proposes effective strategies to stakeholders.\nWorks with Clinical Skills Trainers to define and document learning objectives and research content.\nDevelops presentations, facilitator guides, participant guides, web-based training, job aids, assessments, and other performance support tools. \nDevelops learning solutions that blend web-based training, instructor-led training and didactics, on-the-job experience and training, and third-party training.\nWorks with Clinical Skills Trainers and learners to develop and pilot test material before implementing training. \nCollaborates with department leadership, Clinical Skills Trainers, preceptors, and educators for routine debriefing and feedback during staff on-boarding and as neededto identify strengths/weaknesses, review achievement/non-achievement of training objectives, identify future training goals and appropriately document clinical staff member’s case experiences.\nUpdates curricula and competency assessments according to changes in practice, performance needs, effectiveness, and course maintenance schedules.\nEnsures regulatory compliance with work product.\nDevelops, integrates, and maintains simulation-based training programs for continued development of staff.\nEstablishes, administers, delivers, and evaluates learner-centered and performance-based curricula, instructional content, and competency assessments. \nProvides didactic, in-person training and skills and competency assessments, both for new and established clinical staff. Acts as a resource and coach, role modeling best practices and using all available resources.\nCarries out routine and ad hoc check-ins with new and existing clinical staff, develops training plans or roadmaps, and acts as an ongoing resource for clinical staff during and after the orientation process.\nDevelopments and implements hands-on simulation training in collaboration with the other CSP staff. \nParticipates in, develops, facilitates, and leads various education and development programs (i.e.: Clinical Residency, Clinical Workshops, etc.). \nAnalyzes learning needs by consulting with leadership, managers, and other stakeholders to identify performance gaps, goals, and success indicators.\nOversees the development and training of clinical preceptor training and of the staff precepting; oversees activities of preceptors monitoring to ensure compliance with training processes and procedures.\nAssesses organizational factors that may address performance gaps or impact training outcomes and makes recommendations to stakeholders. \nDesigns learning solutions and proposes effective strategies to stakeholders.\nWorks with Clinical Skills Trainers to define and document learning objectives and research content.\nDevelops presentations, facilitator guides, participant guides, web-based training, job aids, assessments, and other performance support tools. \nDevelops learning solutions that blend web-based training, instructor-led training and didactics, on-the-job experience and training, and third-party training.\nWorks with Clinical Skills Trainers and learners to develop and pilot test material before implementing training. \nCollaborates with department leadership, Clinical Skills Trainers, preceptors, and educators for routine debriefing and feedback during staff on-boarding and as neededto identify strengths/weaknesses, review achievement/non-achievement of training objectives, identify future training goals and appropriately document clinical staff member’s case experiences.\nUpdates curricula and competency assessments according to changes in practice, performance needs, effectiveness, and course maintenance schedules.\nEnsures regulatory compliance with work product.\nDevelops, integrates, and maintains simulation-based training programs for continued development of staff.\nTraining Delivery and Preceptor Oversight\nDelivers instructor-led training in person and through technology such as web-based conferencing and interactive applications.\nParticipates in leading the train-the-trainer, preceptor, and mentorship programs.\nProvides training and performance oversight and guidance to preceptors.\nEnsures preceptors are effective in their roles (e.g. consistent and accurate content as well as ability to transfer knowledge and skills).\nManages the training and competency assessment activity of preceptors.\nOnboards new employees to their roles by providing ongoing assessment of their growth, development, and readiness. \nCollaborates with managers of trainees during orientation and onboarding to ensure training needs of individual staff are met.\nPartners with delivery teams to ensure successful transition of curriculum and transfer of learning from development to implementation. \nPartners with preceptors, Clinical Skills Trainer, leadership to go “on-site” to observe staff skill development, coach, and identify opportunities for improvement. \nCoordinates, schedules, and tracks orientation, training, and competency assessments. \nMeets with new clinical staff to explain the clinical orientation process and be a clinical resource to support and mentor them. \nCollaborates with Learning & Development to ensure appropriate LMS content is assigned to staff along with document training, competencies, tracking compliance, and maintaining records.\nPerformance Improvement\nKeeps current with industry and federal regulations pertaining to the donation industry.\nCoordinates with Learning & Development and the Quality departments on requirements and updates.\nFosters continuous improvement and ensuring operations and performance meet quality standards. \nParticipates in work reviews to identify opportunities for improvement.\nRepresents DNWest nationally within the organ procurement organization communities (committees, presentations, abstracts, etc.).\nCollaborates with stakeholders to determine best practices.\nIdentifies and acts on opportunities to improve individual and organizational performance. \nEvaluates the impact of practice changes on learner performance to assure effectiveness.\nMaintains clinical skills and knowledge by going onsite a minimum of 4 times a year to observe cases. (e.g., on-site donor evaluation, donor management, recovery).\nDONOR NETWORK WEST STAFF EXPECTATIONS\nSupports the vision, mission, and values of DNWest in every aspect of performance.\nAchieves strategic initiatives by providing constructive feedback and offering solutions to workplace challenges or obstacles.\nForesees challenges; is proactive and uses sound judgement and best practices when solving problems and making decisions. \nConducts work professionally and collaboratively and provides excellent customer service.\nPositively adapts to change, supports new initiatives, and is creative/innovative. \nDemonstrates emotional intelligence by having respectful interactions that bring about productive communication. \nPartners with internal and e...","description_format":"text","description_chars":14546,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Insurance coverage"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Blood & Tissue Banks"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-10T23:15:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":69,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.8,"age_days":206,"expected_fill_days":1742,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":178487,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/donornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/donornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-15T00:30:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":880,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":673107},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=673107"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdonornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdonornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdonornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/donornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdonornetworkwest-clinical-skills-program-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":678817}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"donornetworkwest.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":678817},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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