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About the Role

The Transplant Initiatives Director is responsible for the execution, accountability, measurement, and funder-readiness infrastructure supporting NKF's Transplants for All (T4A) initiative. This is a high-ownership individual contributor role for an experienced program/project management professional who can bring order, rigor, and follow-through to a cross-functional initiative across the national and local levels. The Director will also help generate the content that lets NKF tell the story of its impact, both internally and externally, requiring existing knowledge of the transplant and donation landscape to bring contextual expertise to the work.

Responsibilities

Provide superior project management for major T4A projects, including meeting coordination and logistics, data analysis, and project management execution across multiple teams.
Develop and maintain timelines for relevant projects, programs, and initiatives, ensuring deadlines and deliverables are met or exceeded.
Own project and program communications across the initiative, including recurring operational cadences.
Provide input into NKF’s Transplants for All strategic planning process and contribute ideas for continually improving T4A efforts.
Support the monitoring and coordination of ongoing transplant partnerships, programs, and projects, working with internal departments and external partners.
Partner with NKF field offices and HQ teams to deploy the collective impact model locally and regionally.
Organize and manage logistics for NKF’s Transplant Advisory Committee, including meeting and teleconference coordination, member support, and clear, continuous communication.
Manage grant and research projects as identified, including assembling and submitting grant applications and providing logistical and project management support.
Support budget tracking and reporting, as needed.
Design and implement a measurement and impact framework for the T4A initiative, including defining core metrics, building tracking systems, and establishing reporting cadences.
Continuously refine measurement approaches as the initiative evolves, ensuring data remains credible and useful.
Use data to identify emerging risks, gaps, and opportunities, proactively flagging these to the Vice President and relevant partners.
Produce regular internal reports on transplant efforts, collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative program data.
Generate the underlying content for external-facing impact reporting, funder updates, and donor materials.
Develop materials to communicate initiative progress and key results to stakeholders, including PowerPoint decks, written reports, and other formats.
Perform additional duties as required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Minimum 5-7 years of related work experience managing complex projects or programs within a healthcare or nonprofit setting.
Demonstrated experience building or running program performance/measurement systems and translating data into actionable reporting for leadership and external audiences.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience preparing materials for senior leadership, funders, or boards.
Experience in executing research or grant-funded projects preferred.
Excellent interpersonal, time-management, and organizational skills; able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with minimal oversight.
Fluent in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel analysis.
Open to and able to learn additional software tools, including experience with or interest in thoughtfully incorporating AI tools.
Flexible for less than 10% overnight business travel, including occasional evening and weekend availability.
Must have unimpeachable integrity and trustworthiness while possessing a high degree of tact, discretion and professionalism.
Maintain effectiveness under pressure.
Competent in the use of standard office equipment, including telephone, personal computer, fax machine, and photocopier.

Skills

Project management
Data analysis
Program management
Communication
Transplant and donation landscape knowledge
Interpersonal skills
Time-management
Organizational skills
Microsoft Office Suite (Excel analysis)
AI tools

Location

Remote

Work Type

Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

5-7 years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Master's degree preferred

About the Company

Fueled by passion and urgency, National Kidney Foundation is a lifeline for all people affected by kidney disease.
As pioneers of scientific research and innovation, NKF focuses on the whole patient through the lens of kidney health.
Relentless in our work, we enhance lives through action, education, and accelerating change.

Equal Opportunity

At the National Kidney Foundation, diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity apply to both our workforce and the communities we serve as they relate to kidney health and kidney disease prevention.
It is the policy of NKF to provide equality of employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, qualified handicap or disability, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, age, gender, political affiliation or veteran status, or any other factor or reason prohibited by relevant local, state, and federal fair employment laws.
The Equal Employment Opportunity policy will apply to all employment practices of NKF, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, promotion, training, compensation, benefits, layoffs, transfers, and discipline.
Implementation of the Equal Employment Opportunity policy is the shared responsibility of the management of NKF.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.