Senior Program Manager – Community Health

Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Senior Program Manager overseeing community health initiatives while leading engagement with various stakeholders at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. Focus on improving population health outcomes and managing complex health programs.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeSanta Fe • New Mexico • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $67,100 - $102,460 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leads, coordinates, and sustains Presbyterian community health initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and community needs.
Promotes a systemwide community health approach, dynamically selecting, prioritizing, and redirecting initiatives while building organizational capacity for innovation, best practices, and knowledge transfer.
Develops and deploys strategies that align practitioners, providers, and community partners with new community–clinical linkage models to improve population health.
Engages, influences, and collaborates with internal leaders (executives, service lines, PCMH, PMG providers) and external stakeholders (network providers, government entities, community organizations).
Manages complex community health programs from planning and design through implementation, evaluation, reporting, and continuous improvement.
Identifies community health needs and relevant initiatives, supports outreach and engagement strategies, and participates on community councils and boards representing Presbyterian.
Ensures financial and operational performance of community health initiatives, identifies grant opportunities, develops proposals, tracks deliverables, and presents outcomes to senior leadership.
Coordinates communication strategies for internal and external stakeholders and supports data management planning, including data collection, databases/EHRs, privacy, and reporting.
Provides technical and user support for program data systems (Epic, Salesforce, closed-loop referral platforms), gathers and analyzes metrics, and delivers research, analytical insights, and recommendations.
Supports frontline workers and may provide direct patient assistance as needed, while performing additional duties that advance community health goals.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors degree in public health; community health; public administration, education or related field required.
Masters degree preferred, but not required based upon relevant experience.
Seven or more years of relevant industry specific experience demonstrating strong leadership skills and a proven ability to facilitate cross-functional teams.
Experience facilitating diverse community-based groups to foster partnerships.
Strong research competencies, written and oral communication.
Computer knowledge to include Windows, word-processing and database systems.
Requires detailed knowledge of population health and public health research and interventions, including the interpretation of data
Data management and insight reporting, preferably experience with Electronic Health Records

Benefits

Comp & perks

Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
Malpractice liability insurance
Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
EPIC electronic charting system

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Hard Skills & Tools

data managementpopulation healthpublic health researchcommunity health initiativesprogram evaluationgrant writingmetrics analysiscommunity-clinical linkage modelsstrategic planningknowledge transfer

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceorganizational capacity buildingcommunity engagementcross-functional team facilitationoutreach strategy developmentanalytical thinkingproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in public healthMaster's degree in public health (preferred)