The Manager, Neonatal Advanced Practice (APP) provides systemwide leadership across the department and partner sites, ensuring operational alignment and consistent application of policies, procedures, and clinical standards. This role directs and supports Neonatal APP Leads and the APP team to deliver high-quality care and achieve measurable clinical outcomes. The Manager advances organizational initiatives at the department and partner site level while driving consistency in service delivery and strengthening cross-site coordination. The role provides leadership in APP development, performance management, operational oversight, and resource optimization to achieve goals in a cost effective and sustainable manner. Champions systemwide and partner site quality, safety, and regulatory initiatives, ensuring accountability to established standards and driving measurable clinical and quality outcomes.

**In addition to this role, the Manager, APP, will also fulfill their respective APP job description for all clinical time. 

• Location
  This position supports AdventHealth and CommonSpirit NICUs, or
  Anschutz Medical Campus NICUs in Aurora, or
  Community Site NICUs covering the Denver Metro area
• Position Status
  Full-time, eligible for benefits
• .8 FTE administrative, .2 FTE clinical
• Shift
  Primarily days, Monday-Friday
  Night and weekend coverage expected as needed for clinical duties and coverage
• Salary Information
  Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
  Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $150,808.54 to $226,212.81
• Eligible Incentives
  Relocation for eligible candidates moving from 100 miles or greater. 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides systemwide operational leadership to ensure aligned and consistent implementation of policies, procedures, and clinical standards across departments and partner sites.
• Oversees and supports Neonatal APP Leads and APP teams, ensuring effective operations and delivery of high-quality, developmentally appropriate neonatal care.
• Drives measurable clinical and quality outcomes, using data and evidence-based practices to improve performance, consistency, and service delivery across all sites.
• Advances organizational and departmental initiatives, ensuring alignment with systemwide goals and operational priorities at both department and partner site levels.
• Optimizes staffing and resource deployment across sites, ensuring cost-effective, sustainable operations that meet patient, departmental, and partner site needs.
• Leads APP development and performance management, in partnership with Director, establishing expectations, coaching leaders, and ensuring accountability for clinical excellence and professional growth.
• Champions quality, safety, and regulatory compliance, ensuring adherence to established standards and leading efforts to improve outcomes across all care sites.
• Strengthens cross-site coordination and collaboration, fostering relationships with key stakeholders to support unified practices, shared goals, and cohesive service model.
• Leads the development and maintenance of evidence-based policies, procedures, and practice guidelines, interpreting regulatory and organizational standards to ensure compliance and clinical integrity. 
• Identifies and resolves complex operational challenges, ensuring timely, strategic decisions that support patient care, staff experience, and organizational effectiveness. 

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.


EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained. 

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • BSN and Master’s Degree NNP, or
  • Bachelor’s Degree and MPS or MS-PA.
• Experience
  • Three years of clinical experience in an APP role. At least one year of APP experience in a Level II and III NICU preferred. 
  • One year of leadership experience in supervision, leading clinical practice projects, serving as a lead or charge, and/or precepting.
• Certifications
  • BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association;
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate;
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required if working at a CHCO facility.
• Licensure(s)
  • Registered Nurse License (RN); Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) License; Prescriptive Authority License and Board Certification as NNP., or
  • Colorado PA License; Prescriptive Authority License and Board Certification as a PA.

About Children's Hospital Colorado

When you work at Children’s Colorado, you’re more than just a member of our multidisciplinary team. Here, you play a critical role in advancing our mission to improve child healthcare — a vision that has been at the center of our work since 1908.As a comprehensive pediatric healthcare system, we care for kids at all ages and stages of growth, through everyday ailments and extraordinary diagnoses. With four pediatric hospitals, more than 10 specialty care centers and over 1,300 outreach clinics, we proudly see and treat more children than any hospital in the region. Our work has consistently earned us a spot among the best children’s hospitals in the nation, but it’s our team of extraordinary people who make our achievements possible.We’re proud of how far we've come, but our work is far from over. Our goal is to ensure that every child receives personalized care that blends expertise and experience with compassion and a special understanding of what kids need to feel better — so they can get back to being kids.

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