TPF is looking for the ones who are not done yet

Who TPF is looking for

TPF is not a staffing agency. It is a mission-based organization, and the people who work with TPF come because the work itself matters to them. TPF’s principals are practitioners who have spent careers building this field and are not done yet. TPF is also looking for sharp mid-career professionals who want to learn from and work alongside people who have been shaping paramedicine for decades.

TPF is not looking for generalists. The search is for the person who is the genuine expert on one hard problem — rural EMS governance, community paramedicine program design, workforce sustainability, EMS data and analytics, legislative and policy drafting, financial modeling, or frontier clinical systems — and who has the practitioner credibility to walk into a room of skeptics and be taken seriously.

TPF is also looking for people it may not have found yet. If you have been doing important work in a corner of this field that has not gotten national attention, that is exactly the kind of expertise TPF wants on its bench. The hidden gems are the ones TPF is most interested in.

What the work looks like

TPF operates across four continents. The portfolio includes formal consulting engagements with state agencies, county governments, regional EMS bodies, and hospital systems; NGO and policy support work that does not always carry a consulting fee; curriculum and workforce development partnerships; and multi-year system evaluation and implementation projects in some of the most geographically and operationally complex environments in the world.

No two engagements are the same. Some projects call for deep analytical work over months. Others require a focused expert voice for a specific deliverable or policy moment. Teams are assembled based on what the work actually requires, not based on who happens to be on staff. That means involvement can range from a single focused contribution to sustained engagement across a multi-year project or multiple concurrent projects.

TPF is scaling. The pipeline of work TPF is positioned to take on is larger than the current bench can absorb. The infrastructure — operational, technical, and human — is being built to support multiple simultaneous projects spanning multiple countries and policy environments. That is the opportunity in front of the organization, and TPF is looking for people who want to be part of building it.

The TPF model

Working with TPF is not like working for a large consulting firm. There is no billable hour culture, no hierarchy of account managers between the consultant and the work, and no expectation that expertise will be sanded down to fit a standard service line. Consultants bring what they know. TPF brings the organizational infrastructure, the client relationships, the contracts, and the mission context.

Subject matter experts who affiliate with TPF have access to the full operational umbrella: liability coverage, financial administration, legal review of contracts and deliverables, and the credibility of a Minnesota nonprofit corporation, tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, whose founding principals have worked together in this field since 2005. Experts can receive work through TPF or bring their own projects under the umbrella without standing up a separate entity. TPF handles the infrastructure so consultants can focus on the work that only they can do.

TPF is also a relationship-based organization in a way that is not a marketing line. The people who work with TPF are colleagues, not vendors. TPF works with the same people across multiple projects and multiple years because trust is an operational asset in this field. If you want a transactional engagement, TPF is probably not the right fit. If you want to do consequential work with people who will still know your name in a decade, keep reading.

Knowledge domains TPF is actively building

TPF is particularly interested in subject matter experts with deep operational or research background in any of the following areas:

• Rural and frontier EMS governance — regulatory architecture, regional authority design, intergovernmental frameworks
• Community paramedicine and mobile integrated health — program design, implementation, outcome measurement, payer strategy
• EMS workforce sustainability — recruitment, retention, compensation modeling, rural and volunteer system dynamics
• EMS data and analytics — NEMSIS, ePCR systems, geospatial analysis, utilization modeling, dashboard development
• Financial sustainability and reimbursement — EMS billing, GEMT, alternative payment models, rural health finance
• Policy and legislative development — state EMS legislation, federal rural health programs, regulatory comment and public policy development infrastructure
• International paramedicine systems — comparative governance, professional credentialing frameworks, system development in low- and middle-income contexts
• Program evaluation and applied research — outcomes measurement, mixed methods, implementation science, and pre-specified evaluation design reported against the guidance that fits the claim
• Software development and systems integration — TPF has incorporated technology into project work over the years and has ambitions to build a dedicated technology capability over time. The domains most relevant to TPF’s mission include full-stack development with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, ADT); public safety and EMS interfaces including CAD, GIS/ArcGIS, and ADS-B; dashboard development in Power BI, Tableau, or custom platforms; and enterprise management systems. Experience with machine learning in health or public safety contexts is a plus. If you are someone who could help shape what this capability becomes — not just execute within it — TPF is particularly interested in that conversation.

This list is not exhaustive. If your expertise does not fit neatly into a category above but is genuinely at the edge of what is known in this field, TPF wants to hear from you.

Staff and operational roles

As TPF scales, operational capacity is also being built. A full-time project manager role is planned and there may be additional operational needs as the project portfolio grows. If you have a background in nonprofit operations, project management in a consulting or research environment, or grant and contract administration, and you are drawn to the mission, TPF is open to that conversation as well.