Director, Clinical Programs (IKC)

Posting Date 10/26/2026 2000 16th St, Denver, Colorado, 80202-5117, United States of America

About the Role

DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (IKC) is seeking a Director, Clinical Programs to lead high-priority care-model transformation and clinical-performance initiatives across our value-based care portfolio.

This role is for a strategic healthcare operator who knows how to turn clinical and business strategy into something that works in practice. You will lead complex initiatives from design through implementation, stabilization, and ongoing performance improvement, bringing together clinical, operational, analytical, product, technology, and financial teams around shared outcomes.

The initial portfolio will include care-model transformation for patients with chronic kidney disease and broader initiatives focused on improving clinical outcomes, reducing avoidable utilization, advancing quality, and improving affordability. The portfolio will evolve as enterprise priorities change.

DaVita is a global leader in kidney care, and IKC is helping extend that platform across a broader continuum of care. As commercial payers and CMS continue to use value-based and risk-based arrangements in kidney care, this role offers the opportunity to help shape how those models work at scale - from strategy to day-to-day care delivery and measurable performance.

This is a high-ownership role with meaningful exposure to senior leaders and the opportunity to shape how care is delivered across a growing value-based care business.

What You Will Do

LEAD CARE-MODEL TRANSFORMATION

• Lead the design, implementation, and improvement of care models serving patients with complex chronic conditions.

• Translate clinical and business priorities into practical operating models, workflows, roles, accountabilities, and management routines.

• Identify the most important barriers to performance and bring the right teams together to solve them.

• Build approaches that can scale across programs, populations, and markets.

DRIVE CLINICAL AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

• Lead initiatives designed to improve patient engagement, clinical outcomes, quality, avoidable utilization, and total cost of care.

• Partner with clinical and operational leaders to translate patient-risk and performance insights into focused interventions.

• Evaluate whether operational activity is producing the intended patient and business outcomes.

• Use data and frontline insight to identify performance gaps and focus teams on the actions that matter most.

LEAD FROM STRATEGY THROUGH EXECUTION

• Own complex initiatives from planning and readiness through implementation, stabilization, and sustainable operations.

• Establish clear priorities, accountabilities, risks, and decision points.

• Ensure teams have the workflows, tools, training, reporting, and support needed to execute successfully.

• Resolve cross-functional issues through durable solutions rather than recurring workarounds.

BUILD EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS

• Partner with Analytics, Product, and Technology teams to develop reporting and tools that enable leaders to manage performance.

• Connect strategic goals with operational measures, clinical outcomes, and financial performance.

• Help leaders identify where execution is breaking down and take timely action.

• Translate complex performance information into clear insights and recommendations.

LEAD ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE

• Lead highly matrixed work across Clinical, Operations, Analytics, Product, Technology, Patient Engagement, Finance, Actuarial, and other functions.

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

• Facilitate decisions when teams have different priorities, perspectives, or constraints.

• Communicate complex issues simply, including clear recommendations, tradeoffs, and decisions required.

DEVELOP PEOPLE AND CAPABILITY

• Lead and develop managers, analysts, and workstream leaders.

• Create meaningful ownership and clear accountability within the team.

• Coach others in structured problem-solving, stakeholder leadership, operating judgment, and executive communication.

• Build repeatable approaches that strengthen the organization's transformation capability.

Why This Role

• Shape care models that directly affect patients with complex clinical needs.

• Help define value-based kidney care at scale within a market-leading kidney-care platform.

• Own meaningful enterprise work rather than support it from the sidelines.

• Work across the clinical, operational, analytical, technology, and financial dimensions of value-based care.

• Partner directly with senior leaders on high-priority clinical and business challenges.

• See initiatives through from strategy to real-world operating impact.

• Build teams and systems that continue to perform beyond initial implementation.

• Take on broader enterprise scope as you demonstrate impact and the portfolio evolves.

What Success Looks Like

In your first several months, you will build a strong understanding of the portfolio, establish credibility with key partners, and assume independent leadership of a significant transformation initiative.

Over time, you will:

• Independently lead an integrated portfolio of care-model and clinical-performance initiatives.

• Become a trusted partner to senior clinical, operational, analytical, product, and financial leaders.

• Move major initiatives from implementation into sustainable performance management.

• Build repeatable approaches that connect clinical strategy to day-to-day execution and measurable outcomes.

• Develop a strong team capable of independently owning meaningful work.

• Take on additional enterprise priorities as the business and portfolio evolve.

What You Bring

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare administration, public health, nursing, economics, operations, analytics, or a related field.

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in healthcare transformation, value-based care, population health, clinical operations, care delivery, quality, affordability, or a related field.

• Demonstrated ownership of a complex healthcare initiative from strategy or design through implementation and operating adoption.

• Experience leading cross-functional work in a matrixed organization.

• Strong structured problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

• Experience presenting recommendations, risks, and decisions to senior leaders.

• Experience managing people, developing leaders, or leading multiple substantial workstreams.

• Demonstrated effectiveness in complex and evolving environments.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in value-based care, Medicare Advantage, population health, or complex chronic-condition management.

• Experience launching, scaling, or transforming a healthcare delivery or care-management model.

• Experience in an organization accountable for both clinical and financial outcomes.

• Experience with clinical quality, patient engagement, Stars, HEDIS, or total cost of care.

• Experience partnering with Analytics, Product, Technology, Finance, or Actuarial teams.

• Healthcare consulting, enterprise transformation, or operating-model experience combined with meaningful implementation responsibility.

• Graduate degree such as an MBA, MPH, MHA, MSN, or related advanced degree.

Clinical licensure and kidney-care experience are helpful but not required.

What We’ll Provide

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out

• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform Star Learning.

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This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $115,000.00 - $183,000.00 per year. If a candidate is hired, they will be paid at least the minimum wage according to their geographical jurisdiction and the exemption status for the position. New York Exempt: New York City and Long Island: $66,300.00/year, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $66,300.00/year, Remainder of New York state: $62,353.20/year New York Non-exempt: New York City and Long Island: $17.00/hour, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $17.00/hour, Remainder of New York state: $16.00/hour Washington Exempt: $80,168.40/year Washington Non-exempt: Bellingham: $19.13/hour, Burien: $21.78/hour, Everette: $20.77/hour, Unincorporated King County: $20.82/hour, Renton: $21.57/hour, Seattle: $21.30/hour, Tukwila: $21.65/hour, Remainder of Washington state: $17.13/hour

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