Home Visitation Nurse Program Manager

Illuminate Colorado is a statewide 501(c)(3) organization working to strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child maltreatment. With a research-based approach that emphasizes building protective factors, we address systemic and multi-sector issues by collaborating with families and partners at the community, state, and national level to develop and implement powerful programs, policies, and initiatives that build brighter childhoods in Colorado.

Our organization is working to build a team of passionate experts who value each other's differing lived experiences and backgrounds. All of our work is guided by our core values of empathy, innovation, growth, and integrity. Learn more at https://www.illuminatecolorado.org/about/.

Role: Under the guidance of the Director of Clinical and Community Engagement, the Home Visitation Nurse Program Manager provides statewide nursing support for the Family Connects Colorado program. This role leads clinical planning, implementation, quality assurance, and ongoing support for local Family Connects sites. The Nurse Program Manager serves as a nursing expert, ensuring clinical model fidelity, supporting nursing teams statewide, and building referral partnerships with health care providers and systems to increase program awareness, referrals, and enrollment. Family Connects is an evidence-based approach to supporting all newborns and their families. As a universal light touch home visitation model, Family Connects implementation is designed to create mechanisms, building on local community capacity and interests, that will provide all new parents, prenatally or at birth, systematic opportunities to discuss their concerns and be connected to the parent support resources available in their communities. Family Connects works in partnership with four current demonstration communities and is poised to scale.

Specific Duties Include:

Serve as the Family Connects Colorado Nurse lead, including:

• Provide excellent nursing guidance for planning, implementation, certification, and ongoing technical assistance
• Support local implementing sites, healthcare partners, and state agencies in understanding and meeting the clinical requirements of the Family Connects model
• Guide sites through readiness and installation phases, ensuring alignment between clinical operations and model fidelity
• Collaborate with Nurse Supervisors and Nursing Staff to address clinical challenges, share best practices, and identify opportunities to strengthen nursing practice across implementation sites
• Participate in local site case conferences providing nursing consultation and quality improvement insight related to clinical implementation
• Develop and coordinate professional development, continuing education, and clinical training opportunities for nurses across all sites
• Lead and facilitate the Clinical Learning Series, including identifying relevant clinical topics (e.g., postpartum and infant assessment, perinatal mental health, lactation support, safe sleep)
• Ensure adherence to clinical fidelity standards through the Family Connects Quality Assurance process
• Collaborate to streamline Health Cloud documentation workflows and improve nursing documentation efficiency
• Conduct annual site visits with Director to assess clinical practice, compliance, and model fidelity

Work with local partners, communities, and health care agencies to promote family connects and build program awareness and enrollment, including:

• Supports strong relationships with hospitals, birth centers, OB/GYN practices, pediatricians, public health agencies, and other healthcare providers to promote Family Connects
• Assist partners in developing clinical workflows, referral pathways, and data-sharing strategies to ensure timely and seamless family referral and engagement
• Support Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes focused on clinical quality, nursing practice improvement, and KPI monitoring
• Contribute to the development of tools, resources, and implementation materials that support nursing teams and partner organizations
• Collaborate with Family Connects demonstration sites, around outreach efforts and event coordination
• Identify unmet clinical or community resource needs and collaborate with partners to develop solutions
• Represent the nursing role at clinical outreach events and partner meetings

As a member of the Home Visitation Team, support achievement of overarching home visitation strategic priorities and key performance indicators by:

• Partner with local implementing entities, potential community partners, state agency partners,  health care organizations, and model purveyors to facilitate the planning, implementation, certification, and technical assistance processes
• Collaborate with Family Connects International (FCI) cross-functional team members to support program sites
• Co-facilitate meetings and stakeholder engagement processes on both state and local levels, including creation of agendas and maintenance of notes.
• Collaborate with other Illuminate Colorado teams to support cross functionality of work 
• Manage timelines, keep projects on track, employ project management tools to keep work organized and efficient

Other duties as assigned.

Experience, Skills, & Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse, licensed in the state of Colorado with a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing is required
• Three to five years of related clinical experience, experience implementing public health nursing programs, or supporting evidence-based home visitation programs
• Understanding and ability to navigate community health and hospital systems, including commonly used Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems
• Experience in community engagement, outreach, and referral processes
• Training and/or practical experience with project management, community engagement, and facilitation
• Ability to work with people of diverse social and professional backgrounds
• Commitment to advancing social and racial equity through collective action
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage collaborative projects, including balancing deadlines with community processes
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain highly collaborative working relationships with individuals of diverse professional backgrounds, technical expertise, and lived experience
• Comfort with ambiguity, shifting environments, and shared decision making
• Ability to travel, attend meetings, and work with local partners in the Denver Metro Area on a regular basis
• Experience working with Microsoft Office, Google Workplace, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom
• Experience with Salesforce, Tableau, Alchemer (or other enhanced survey platform), Mailchimp, Canva, and/or Smartsheet is a plus

Compensation & Schedule: 

Full-time, salaried, exempt position eligible for benefits. Starting salary is negotiable and commensurate with skills and experience in the range of $70,000 - $80,000. 

Illuminate Colorado offers health and dental benefits as well as participation in a 401K and Life Insurance benefits. In addition, Illuminate Colorado has an unlimited paid time off policy and offers both flexible scheduling and remote work. Residency in Colorado, or anticipated relocation to Colorado in the near future (at your own expense), is a condition of employment with Illuminate.

To Apply:

Please upload a cover letter, resume, and three references to: Home Visitation Nurse Program Manager

Application Deadline:

January 20, 2026