Your Blood. Your Hospital. Your Neighbors.

Looking for a position serving YOUR local community in Fort Dodge, IA? Our dedicated team members are the vital link between generous volunteer blood donors and hospital patients who rely on lifesaving blood transfusions, and work diligently to ensure their friends, families, hospitals have access to a strong blood supply. Through a flexible hybrid work environment, Territory Representatives work to strengthen new and blood drive opportunities. They are responsible for recruiting, directing, and training volunteers to organize blood drives and help secure volunteer blood donors to ensure a stable blood supply for hospitals in regions where LifeServe collects blood products. As one of the 15 largest blood centers in the country, LifeServe Blood Center’s foundation is based on local blood donors supporting the needs of their local hospitals. Your Blood. Your Hospital. Your Neighbors. Be part of our lifesaving team!

Key responsibilities:

• Establishes strategies to grow volunteer blood donor base in the mobile or donor center environment.
  
• Coordinates activities and organizational resources associated with blood drives to ensure success.
  
• Conducts public speaking engagements and participates in educational workshops/presentations/health fairs for donors, chairpersons, sponsor groups, community, and civic organizations.
  
• Proactively works to successfully meet individual booking goals while also working collaboratively with the team in assigned territory to ensure weekly, monthly, and yearly blood collection goals from mobile blood drives are met.
  
• Follows all department guidelines for completion of recruiting materials, scheduling mobile blood drives regarding productivity measures, efficiency targets, and cost-effectiveness.
  
• Maintains accurate records to provide tracking and statistical data on account performance.
  
• Provides excellent customer service and a positive image with chairpersons, sponsor groups, donors, volunteers, and blood center staff.
  
• The Territory Representative will interact and represent LifeServe Blood Center professionally with community leaders, medical personnel, and government officials, requiring professional-level written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Education and/or Experience:

• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, advertising, communications, or related degree.
• Associate's degree in a related area.
• • Plus four years of job-related recruitment, sales, fundraising, marketing, public relations, volunteer/event management experience, OR four years of experience at LifeServe.
• Minimum required: high school diploma.
• • Plus four years of job-related recruitment, sales, fundraising, marketing, public relations, volunteer/event management experience, OR four years of experience at LifeServe.

Other Requirements:

• Day travel is required within assigned territory with some other travel as needed.
• May include some overnight travel, evening, and weekend work.
• Self-motivated, and excellent time management skills to build new relationships while continuing to develop current volunteers at the same time.
• Valid driver’s license and motor vehicle report that meets insurability requirements.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Supplemental accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance
• Employer-matched retirement contributions
• Generous PTO, accruing approximately four weeks in the first year of employment

Physical requirements:

• Sit
• Stand
• Walk
• Twist/Turn
• Stoop/Bend
• Squat
• Balance
• Reach above Shoulders
• Use of hands/wrists
• Forearm Rotation,
• Ability to tolerate long hours in an automobile,
• Ability to lift 20 pounds in weight (publicity materials, displays, etc.).

Offers of employment are contingent on the successful completion of pre-employment, post-offer drug testing and background checks.

LifeServe Blood Center is fully committed to equal employment opportunity. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact us at careers@lifeservebloodcenter.org.

Behaviors

• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
• Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations

• Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
• Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility
• Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)