Population Health Partnership Director

National Kidney Foundation

Population Health Partnership Director collaborating with health systems to improve kidney care quality. Building partnerships and leading initiatives for chronic kidney disease management across regions.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • Minnesota, Montana, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $76,800 - $153,600 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and steward strategic partnerships
Identify and pursue high-impact partnership opportunities with health systems, health plans, state public health departments, and community-based organizations
Engage C-suite and senior clinical leaders to make the case for kidney disease as a strategic priority—clinically, financially, and through the lens of health equity
Serve as external face on population health strategy with sophisticated healthcare audiences
Lead design, implementation, and evaluation of CKD intercept (NKF's flagship CKD detection and management initiative) and adjacent population health work in your assigned regions
Use claims data, health needs assessments, and other public health data to identify priority partners and measure program impact using clinical quality measures and sound statistical methods
Partner with NKF national and field teams to develop funding proposals, including government and foundation grants
Lead quality assurance for deployed programs and communicate outcomes, internally and with external partners
Advise field office leaders and national colleagues on population health principles, healthcare business development, and engagement with physician executives
Translate complex clinical and statistical findings for non-technical audiences, including donors, community partners, and internal teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master's degree in public health, health policy, a clinical or health sciences field or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years building partnerships or programs across health systems, payers, public health agencies, or population health organizations.
Working fluency with healthcare data (claims, outcomes measurement, quality improvement frameworks) and the ability to communicate findings up and out.
Strong grounding in health equity, social determinants of health, and evidence-based approaches to closing disparities.
Demonstrated ability to earn the trust and confidence of senior clinical and executive stakeholders.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of translating between technical and lay audiences.
Self-directed operator comfortable in a national, remote, matrixed environment
Experience in primary care, integrated delivery systems, or value-based care environments (preferred)
Prior success developing grant proposals with federal, state, or foundation funders (preferred)
Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) credential (preferred)
Bilingual English/Spanish (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Minimal travel (1 to 2 conferences or in-person partner meetings per year)
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

healthcare dataclaims dataoutcomes measurementquality improvement frameworksprogram evaluationstatistical methodsgrant proposal developmentpopulation health strategyclinical quality measureshealth needs assessments

Soft Skills

communicationtrust buildingstakeholder engagementself-directed operationtranslation of technical findingsleadershipcollaborationstrategic thinkingadaptabilityproblem-solving

Certifications

Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ)