Clinical Programs Analyst (IKC)

About the role

The Analyst, CKD Model of Care / Clinical Programs, supports high-impact initiatives that advance DaVita Integrated Kidney Care’s CKD strategy, with emphasis on translating clinical priorities into practical tools, workflows, reporting, and training that improve execution at scale.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support design, launch, and continuous improvement of CKD Model of Care workflows, tools, training materials, communications, and management processes.
• Own defined analytical and execution workstreams, including scoping the question, organizing inputs, building workplans, tracking risks and decisions, and driving timely follow-through.
• Analyze clinical, operational, and financial data to identify trends, performance gaps, and opportunities for action; translate findings into clear recommendations for leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Build and maintain reporting, trackers, readiness summaries, action logs, risk logs, and executive-ready materials that create visibility into progress, barriers, ownership, and next steps.
• Support panel management and nephrology engagement work, including workflow documentation, practice communication materials, training support, pilot learnings, metrics tracking, and operational reinforcement.
• Support medication management including workflow tools, training assets, performance tracking, data quality review, and stakeholder-ready updates.
• Partner with care team role leads and operational stakeholders to ensure workflow designs are feasible, within role scope, and clear for frontline execution.
• Prepare concise, polished materials for workgroups, leadership updates, meetings, trainings, and readouts; capture decisions and action items and ensure follow-up is completed.
• Identify when data, workflows, or materials require additional review for accuracy, privacy, compliance, legal, or clinical alignment, and route questions appropriately.

What Will Make Someone Successful In This Role

• High ownership and follow-through; consistently brings order to ambiguous work and closes loops without extensive prompting.
• Strong analytical judgment; able to reconcile data discrepancies, pressure-test assumptions, and clearly flag limitations or risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate complex clinical and operational topics into concise, audience-ready materials.
• Strong project-management discipline, including prioritization, meeting preparation, stakeholder follow-up, and clear documentation of decisions and dependencies.
• Comfort working across functions without formal authority; builds trust with clinical, operations, analytics, product, and field partners through responsiveness and credibility.
• Practical operator mindset; designs tools and workflows that are usable by care teams and leaders, not just theoretically sound.
• Strong attention to detail in data, slides, communications, and training materials, with the ability to deliver polished work products under changing timelines.
• Curiosity, humility, and learning agility; seeks clinical and operational context, asks good questions, incorporates feedback, and improves the work iteratively.
• Sound judgment on role scope, patient information, and compliance/privacy considerations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required; healthcare, business, public health, analytics, operations, or related field preferred.
• 0-3+ years of experience in healthcare operations, consulting, analytics, care model design, process improvement, project management, or related work.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data, synthesize insights, and create leadership-ready recommendations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel required; experience with Tableau or similar reporting tools preferred.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams, clinical operations, value-based care, nephrology, chronic disease management, or integrated care models preferred.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tailor messages for frontline, operational, clinical, and senior leadership audiences.
• Able to handle confidential information and patient-related topics with discretion, sound judgment, and adherence to applicable policies.

Travel And Other Requirements

• Preference for Denver-based candidates.
• Must be able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.