Skip to content

Main menu. Press enter or space keys to expands and escape key to collapse

General Information

Work Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 1:00pm (20 hours/week)
Posted Date
12/01/2025
Salary Range: $27.71 - 36.6 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
27041

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

As an Autopsy & Decedent Affairs Coordinator on the Decedent Affairs team, you will play a key role in supporting our Autopsy and Decedent Affairs services and ensuring accurate documentation and coordination. In this role, you will:

• Serve as the primary administrative liaison with the Coroner’s Office, public administrator, law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and mortuaries.

• Record and maintain hospital death information, including processing death certificates and completing autopsy case documentation through final disposition.

• Assist physicians in completing all required decedent-related forms, reports, and documentation accurately and in a timely manner.

• Provide respectful care for the deceased and ensure all remains leave the Medical Center in appropriate and satisfactory condition.

• Arrange transportation of outside autopsy cases to UCLA, working closely with internal departments and external partners as needed.

• Select, catalog, store, and maintain anatomical specimens for teaching and research purposes.

• Verify that autopsy permissions and consent forms are complete and compliant with legal and institutional requirements.

• Coordinate autopsy scheduling, notifying all relevant medical teams, hospital services, and interested clinical staff.

Note: This is a part-time position (20 hours per week). 

Salary Range: $27.71 - $36.60/hour 


Job Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent (e.g. HiSET or GED)

• Ability to work in sensitive situations with discretion, professionalism, and respect for confidentiality.



As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.