SENIOR DIRECTOR, RISK MANAGEMENT 2026-2027

Compensation

Salary Schedule

Overview

To manage insurance products and systems ensuring quality service and cost efficiency in the delivery of these products requiring skilled communications with external vendors and internal OCPS customers. Manage the OCPS Employee Benefits Trust to ensure financial soundness; premium increases are less than national trends, clinical outcomes are measured, evaluated, and enhanced. Based on current data, create expectations for healthcare, workers’ compensation, student accident, and retirement plan vendors that show improved clinical and cost outcomes. Oversee the performance of the third-party administrators (TPAs) for workers’ compensation, property and casualty, student interscholastic accident, and retirement plan consultant (403(b) and 457(b)). Ensure that the district has adequate protection for its human resources and tangible assets and that all insurance policies are updated and renewed in a timely manner. Ensure that employees have an opportunity to be educated and informed regarding their retirement benefits.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Master’s degree in business administration, healthcare administration or public administration and experience in insurance, risk management and employee benefits or any equivalent combination of related education, training and/or experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential job functions.2. Seven (7) years of experience in employee benefits and risk management, five (5) of which must have been in a supervisory capacity (management of self-insurance desirable).3. Experience in managing health plans and/or employee benefits with budgets in excess of $50 million.4. Experience in property casualty insurance.5. The incumbent is considered to be “essential personnel” during an emergency and can be subject to being held over or called back to a district location at all times.KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:Knowledge of healthcare financing, actuarial analysis, claims adjudication, cost analysis, provider contracting, current healthcare patterns and trends, and management theory. Ability to develop and manage a departmental budget which includes risk funds for property/casualty/liability/workers’ compensation, the self-insured Employee Benefits Trust in excess of $143 million. Ability to negotiate vendor contracts. Knowledge of the principles of strategic planning and continuous quality improvement. Ability to substantiate the District’s needs for insurance products as part of the District’s strategic planning. Ability to communicate quantitative and qualitative insurance data to multiple audiences upon request. Knowledge of and commitment to decentralized decision making and accountability for results. Ability to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint.REPORTS TO: Chief Financial OfficerSUPERVISES: Director – Insurance Benefits; Senior Administrator, Financial Analyst; Senior Manager, Worker’s Compensation; Senior Business Process Specialist; Senior Manager, Risk Management and General Liability.MACHINES, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT:Machines, tools, equipment, electronic devices, vehicles, etc., used in this position. Telephone, Computer, (Personal Computer and Mainframe), Automobile, CopierPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:Describes physical conditions of this position.Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated as Light Work.PHYSICAL ACTIVITY:Physical activities of this position. Percent of a typical day involved in each applicable activity is noted.Percentage70 Sitting: Resting with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs.10 Standing: Assuming an upright position on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.10 Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.5 Bending: Lowering the body forward from the waist.5 Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.5 Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position through the use of the upper extremities and back muscles exerting up to 10 pounds of force.80 Finger Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm.70 Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.90 Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed accurately, loudly or quickly.90 Hearing Acuity: The ability to perceive speech and other environmental sounds at