Program Manager, Transplant (Clinical Transformation)

Posting Date

01/12/2026

2000 16th St, Denver, Colorado, 80202-5117, United States of America

DaVita’s National Transplant Team is seeking a Program Manager, Transplant to focus on developing and strengthening relationships with transplant centers, establishing DaVita as the "Transplant Partner of choice."

This vital role is central to our mission of improving patient access and equity in kidney care, as transplantation offers the best quality of life for most patients. The Program Manager will drive key initiatives aimed at fostering collaboration, enhancing communication, and standardizing engagement with our transplant center partners to ultimately improve patient outcomes.

The essential duties of this position revolve around strategic partnership and program development. This includes serving as a primary point of contact for transplant center leaders, organizing regular leadership calls, and expanding the Transplant Care Coordination (TCC) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The manager will also implement standardized processes for engagement, such as patient pipeline calls, and support the growth of the Transplant Liaison program to provide patient support and strengthen partnerships.

Responsibilities:

In addition to the above, key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain transplant centers' partnerships, facilitating efficient and effective workflows between internal and external stakeholders

• Support seamless care coordination by working with internal teams and promoting best practices for tracking patient journeys, such as facilitating EHR access.

• Collaborate with transplant centers to break down barriers to transplantation and support outreach initiatives like "Lobby Days.”

• Other duties assigned

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree is required; a master's is preferred

• 1-3 years of transplant experience highly preferred, including familiarity with transplant center processes and operations, understanding of the patient transplant journey, and understanding of the transplant landscape

• 1-3 years of experience in healthcare business development and stakeholder engagement preferred

• Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint proficiency required; extensive experience developing PowerPoint presentations and presenting to leadership, and experience with Excel data manipulation preferred

• Advanced critical thinking, excellent interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, creative mindset, adept communication skills, attention to detail, design-mindedness, flexibility with change, comfort with ambiguity, efficient time management, technical aptitude, and business acumen

Here is what you can expect when you join our Village:

• A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter

• Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average

• Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential

• Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions

• Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from kidney failure and other chronic diseases across the nation

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 StarLearning.  

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second.  We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong."  Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national