Senior Director – Insurance Benefits and Risk Management

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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).
• Experience in managing health plans and/or employee benefits with budgets in excess of $50 million.
• Experience in property casualty insurance.

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 Officer

Schedule

Twelve months, 8.0 hours per day.