Manager Service Lines of Neurology

Children's Hospital Colorado; Aurora (CO); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

Parental leave

403b retirement match

Wellness program

Education benefit

Job summary

Children's Hospital Colorado seeks a Manager, Service Lines to lead performance for a service line, coordinate faculty recruitment and practice management, and collaborate with School of Medicine departments. The role emphasizes financial performance, human capital management, and strategic business planning within Neurology Administration.

The position is full-time with shift from 8am-5pm, hybrid majority on-site (80%).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Administration, Health Care Administration, Management, Finance, or related field.
• Minimum (3) years of relevant healthcare, business, faculty practice administration or related professional experience.
• Equivalency: Master’s or higher degree may substitute; or completion of a Fellowship; or professional experience may substitute for a bachelor’s degree on a year-for-year basis

Responsibilities

• Collaborates to implement and sustain strategic business plans supporting program development and operations.
• Manages faculty expenses and CME budgets; analyzes opportunities to improve financial performance and value proposition.
• Measures and optimizes faculty time, clinical sessions, and time allocation across clinical, administrative, research, and education activities.
• Leads SOM faculty practice optimization in partnership with CU Medicine; improves billing procedures and audit documentation.
• Collaborates with Clinical Medical Directors to achieve goals across ambulatory, perioperative, and inpatient modalities; represents department to CHCO leaders.
• Manages full cycle recruitment, including business planning, postings, interviews, credentials, onboarding, LOAs, and HR coordination with SOM, CU, CHCO.
• Plans space, equipment, and support systems to enable service operation; assists in space planning across hospital, research, and administrative areas.
• Prepares and analyzes financial and statistical reports; transmits to relevant corporate entities.
• Manages master clinic and surgical schedules, plus non-clinic activities for operational success.
• Oversees contracts and locations for faculty outreach; drives growth strategies.
• Creates and supervises outreach activities; serves as liaison with Physicians Relations for specialist support.
• Supervises team members, provides training, evaluates performance, and manages disciplinary actions; identifies resource needs and recruitment goals.
• Analyzes growth of referrals and patient migration; maintains partnerships with regional and national referring providers.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy development

Healthcare administration

Budget management

Talent acquisition

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Administration/Health Care Administration/Management/Finance

Job description

Job ID: 108153

Location: Aurora

Position Type: Regular

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Job Overview

The Manager Service Lines plays a crucial role in advancing service line performance and fostering collaboration between Children's Hospital Colorado and School of Medicine Departments. This management role is responsible for oversight for a specific service line(s), with a focus on developing and implementing faculty business plans, faculty recruitment and coordination, faculty alignment, marketing, faculty practice management, and research coordination. The primary objective is to operationalize strategic and business objectives to achieve a shared strategic plan and operational goals while achieving financial performance. Additionally, this role will be accountable for managing human capital, including talent acquisition, performance management, and leadership development.

Additional Information

Department Name: Neurology Administration

Job Status: Full time, 40 hours per week.

Shift: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, Hybrid majority (~80%) expected onsite.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborates to implement and sustain strategic business plans that support program development, reviews plan progress, and develops quarterly update presentations. Actively participates in the development of strategic business planning regarding business and clinical operations, including organization expansion, model changes, and etc.


• Manages and approves faculty expenses while keeping track of providers' Continuing Medical Education budgets. Identifies, analyzes, and recommends actions to improve CHCO SL and Faculty practice value proposition, growth opportunities, financial performance, operational excellence, and competitive position.


• Measures, evaluates, optimizes, and implements faculty time and productivity (wRVUs), number of clinical sessions/shifts, and clinical time versus benchmarks, focusing on practice optimization, equity across faculty, and patient access. Monitors faculty allocation to time spent on clinical, administrative, research, and education activities.


• Leads SOM faculty practice optimization (validation of billing and collecting) in partnership with CU Medicine; to improve physician billing procedures, audit documentation correctness, and identify patient revenue opportunities. Collaborates with grant professionals to track pre- and post-award grant activities.


• Collaborates with Clinical Medical Directors and SL Director to achieve specific goals in the assigned division/department that can span ambulatory, perioperative, and inpatient modalities, including but not limited to quality, growth, and patient satisfaction. Represents the Departments and serves as the Department's interface with the CHCO leaders.


• Facilitates and manages faculty full cycle recruitment process, which includes developing business plans for STAR and recruitment templates, determining funding for positions, developing job postings, managing interviews and the selection process, completing non-compete contracts, obtaining credentials, and completing the on-boarding process. Maintains provider credentials and oversees the recredentialing process. This includes management, oversight, and tracking on all aspects relating to LOA's, assisting in finding coverage for facility, and assisting with HR process between SOM, CU, and CHCO.


• Determines the space, equipment, supplies, and support systems required to enable the proper operation of the service. Aid in space planning initiatives to include hospital, research, and administrative spaces.


• Prepares, analyzes, monitors, and transmits financial and statistical reports to relevant corporate entities.


• Manages master clinic, surgical schedules, and faculty non-clinic activities. In addition, manages other schedules for operational success as appropriate.


• Responsible for contracts and practice locations associated with faculty outreach initiatives and growth strategies.


• Creates, implements, and supervises outreach activities. Serves as the primary point of contact for the Physicians Relations department in cultivating specialist support to undertake Primary Care Provider outreach efforts.


• Assigns and reviews work, provides work instruction (OTJ or formal training) and develops team members. Evaluates performance of team members, providing continuous feedback. Manages discipline and performance issues; hires and fires team members. Identifies resource needs and develops recommendations for meeting needs.


• Leads analysis for the growth of new referrals, the assessment of patient out-migration, and the establishment of key messages. Supports business relationships with regional, national referring providers and practices in the service line specialties to establish and maintain strong, mutually beneficial partnerships.


• Partners with service line leadership to maintain and communicate Service Line Dashboard, including analyzing and reporting volume, financial and operating performance for SOM and CHCO.


• Leads the collection and maintenance of data for U.S. News and World Report Survey and performance improvement initiatives.


• Oversight of SOM business operations, partnering with Section Head and Management of the revenue cycle and annual budgeting process for the SOM faculty practice, analytics, restricted and grant fund planning, and implementation, managing complex academic financial systems, and financial relationships between organizations.


• Prepares and manages the hospital budgets (operational and restricted fund budgets), oversees spending to ensure budget compliance throughout the year.


• Prepares and manages the SOM faculty budgets and financial performance analysis in partnership with DFA, amounting to expenses in excess of and oversees revenue capture trends and spending to ensure budget compliance throughout the year.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  
  
  
  • Bachelors' degree in Administration, Health Care Administration, Management, Finance, or related field.
  
  
  
  


• Experience
  
  
  
  • Minimum (3) three years of relevant healthcare, business, faculty practice administration or related professional experience.
  
  
  
  


• Equivalency
  
  
  
  • o Professional experience beyond the minimum qualifications in a related field may substitute for a bachelor's degree on a year for year basis
  
  
  • o A Master's or higher degree in a related field; or completion of a Fellowship program may substitute on a year for year basis for the minimum qualifications of experience.
  
  
  
  

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $105,046.99 to $157,570.49

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.

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Estimated Close Date: 10/10/2026