Director of Population Health
Category
Administration
Organization:
Lincoln Community Health Center, Inc.
Location:
Durham, North Carolina • Durham County
Date Needed:
May 30, 2026
Organization Website:
Type Of Position:
Full Time
Education Required:
Bachelor's
Experience Required:
3-5 year(s)
Date Of Job Posting:
May 26, 2026
Job Description:
DIRECTOR OF POPULATION HEALTH
Looking to drive improvements in quality, population and community health? Lincoln Community Health Center is recruiting for Director of Population Health. The position is responsible for oversight, leadership and delivery of the population health program, supervising team members and working collaboratively with senior leadership to improve health outcomes.
Why Lincoln Community Health Center?
Work in a vibrant Federally Qualified Health Center whose mission is to serve the community and provides primary and preventive outpatient care.
Located in Durham, NC, known as the Bull City, the City of Medicine, the Tastiest Town in the South, and the Startup Capital of the South. It’s a two-hour drive from the beach, a three-hour drive from the Blue Ridge Mountains, and is North Carolina’s fourth largest city by population.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Comprehensive understanding of population health, best practices, programmatic implementation and monitoring of key population health measures. Ability to motivate and engage staff and clinicians, build trust and consensus, and appropriately lead, delegate and empower a high-caliber team. Strategic thinker with strong communication skills and initiative who critically analyzes problems and generates creative and effective solutions and can work concurrently on a variety of projects with competing deadlines and turnaround times. Caring and compassionate with a commitment to working in community health with the challenges of working with an uninsured and diverse patient population.
Education and Experience:
Master’s degree or Advance Practice Provider with Management Experience preferred; bachelor’s degree required. 3+ years of demonstrated care management, population health or quality improvement experience preferred.
Lincoln Community Health Center, Inc. (LCHC), mission is to provide primary and preventive health care in a courteous, professional, and personalized manner.
Key requirements for any position are our “Core Values”:
•Courtesy
•Respect
•Quality
•Accessibility
•Teamwork
•Continuous Improvement
•Accountability
LCHC provides comprehensive, high-quality primary health care to our patients regardless of ability to pay. As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we provide health care to all members of our community, including low income, uninsured patients and diverse communities. We screen potential employees to first ensure alignment with our key requirements followed by the requisite position skills set. In doing so staff must be committed to the mission who do their best to live and work the characteristics of our core values as we strive to care for ever increasing members of the communities we serve. Understanding that each individual is unique and recognizing our individual differences.
