Program Manager - Clinical Quality Improvement

Our Mission

At CPCQC, we are dedicated to ensuring that EVERY pregnant and postpartum person, infant, and family in Colorado has access to safe, equitable, high-quality care. We champion new collaborations, strengthen community connections to care, and lead statewide maternal and infant health quality improvement initiatives.

As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, CPCQC partners with healthcare facilities, community organizations, and families across Colorado and with national allies to advance best practices and improve maternal and infant health outcomes.
Our Core Values
At CPCQC, we are:

- Better Together

- Person-Centered

- Action-Oriented

- Joyfully Invested

- Committed to Integrity

- Leveraging Expertise

- Always Learning

We work to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity, inform and implement evidence-based policies, and address health disparities in maternal and infant health. Our work is complex, multifaceted, and profoundly important, and we look forward to welcoming a new team member to help increase our impact.
Position Description

The Program Manager – Clinical Quality Improvement oversees a quality improvement initiative to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, implementing an AIM Patient Safety Bundle-based program across hospitals. This position is part of CPCQC’s Clinical Quality Improvement (QI) team and reports to the Director of Quality Improvement. The Program Manager works in close partnership with a dedicated Quality Improvement (QI) Advisor and is supported by peer Program Managers in the organization. The role also collaborates regularly with the data and analytics, community QI, policy and community engagement, and communications and grant reporting leads, whose work cuts across programs to support impact.

The primary initiative for this role is SOAR, CPCQC’s primary cesarean reduction initiative. The Program Manager leads SOAR by guiding strategy, hospital engagement, data, and reporting from planning through evaluation and coordinates with peer Program Managers across CPCQC’s broader clinical and community QI portfolio, including Turning the Tide, SPARK, and NEST.

This full-time, salaried position operates remotely within Colorado. However, travel includes attendance at quarterly in-person meetings in the Denver Metro area, visits to partner and hospital sites statewide, and attendance at forums and conferences hosted by CPCQC or key state, regional, or national partners.
Responsibilities
Program & Initiative Management

- Lead the implementation, tracking, and evaluation of SOAR, CPCQC’s primary cesarean reduction initiative, ensuring it meets goals and creates measurable impact.

- Support planning and co-facilitate monthly initiative meetings and steering committee meetings that guide strategy and execution, coordinating agendas, speakers, and clinical/technical-assistance content with your QI Advisor and sending materials to hospital teams in advance.

- Manage initiative calendars and workplans, including grant deliverables, deadlines, enrollment cycles, and educational and conference opportunities.

- Maintain the hospital engagement tracker and detailed initiative documentation, ensuring timely, well-organized communication with hospital participants on logistics and resources.

- Lead annual planning and strategy for your initiative, including logic models, KPIs, and updates to program materials such as toolkits, checklists, and one-pagers.

- Plan annual outreach, recruitment, and cohort onboarding in coordination with the Communications team.

- Track and communicate about your program budget with the Director of Finance and Operations and the Accounting team, including spenddown planning and timely reimbursements.

Data Strategy & Grant Reporting

- Oversee initiative deliverables, partnering with your QI Advisor and the Data team to interpret and share quality data with participants.

- Collaborate with the initiative QI Advisor to promote timely, accurate hospital