Risk Manager

Responsibilities

• Oversees all Risk Management programs by planning, organizing, coordinating, and directing the activities in areas such as workers’ compensation, general liability insurance, workplace safety, cyber security, medical malpractice, and other related areas.
• Develops, administers, and evaluates risk and safety management services and programs to ensure compliance with strategies and performance goals; manages work systems and process; maintains and updates procedures and ensures compliance; researches trends and best practices; and recommends and implements changes.
• Supervises management, professional, paraprofessional, and support staff; conducts performance evaluations, employee development, hiring, discipline, and termination procedures; establishes and facilitates effective relationships with departments and provides risk management support in areas of assigned responsibilities.
• Assess and purchases a variety of traditional and non-traditional insurance products to protect the County’s employees and assets.
• Develops and administers division’s budget and procurement process; reviews and approves budget requests and transactions; negotiates and manages contracts; researches and analyzes financial information; makes resource allocation recommendations; implements resource allocation decisions and is responsible for internal insurance rate setting.
• Interacts with and makes recommendations to policy makers at the CEO and/or Board of Supervisors level; develops, analyzes, and maintains reports and other materials that contain actionable metrics to monitor the performance of business operations.
• Responsible for keeping current with rules, regulations, legislation, and procedures to determine their impact on organizational processes, procedures and County operations to ensure compliance with related Federal/State laws/regulations.
• Identifies, researches, analyzes and evaluates potential risk or loss exposure for current and potential future activities and operations; evaluates, recommends and employs new/enhanced insurance coverage, self-insured retention or other non-traditional insurance/financial solutions where appropriate.
• Oversees multiple concurrent projects and ensures their timely and successful completion; monitors key performance indicators and tracks division’s objectives; and evaluates the performance of risk management programs.
• Coordinates with the general public, County staff, and external agencies; may represent the County of various professional committees and organizations, such as PRISM; and prepare and make presentations to the public, elected officials, board, and other stakeholders.
• Performs other related duties as required.

• Strong Leadership Skills
  • Demonstrate an ability to be a strong partner in the organization.
  • Effectively advise and provide consultative services to departments, executives and elected officials on risk management matters.
  • Successfully lead, develop, support and retain staff.
  • Character defined by integrity, humility, empathy, action and stewardship.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
  • Strong customer orientation to achieve both departmental and countywide goals by collaborating with department directors, elected officials and executive leadership.
  • Ability to manage highly sensitive issues.
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills to present/communicate to a group, including executives, managers, and County employees.
  • Demonstrate emotional intelligence to communicate effectively and foster productive relationships.
• Technical Skills
  • Ability to develop or redesign successful safety and risk management programs and loss control capabilities.
  • Possesses broad knowledge of insurance, liability, workers’ compensation and safety.
  • Understands risk management process and how to identify risks, measure risks, examine solutions, implement risk management technique/solution, and monitor results.
  • Knowledgeable in the area of risk transfer across a broad range of services.
  • Skilled at identifying current and emerging liability and safety exposures.
  • Educated and experienced in the area of safety to ensure solutions comply with occupational safety and health…