THE POSITION

The County of Santa Barbara's County Executive Office is currently accepting applications to fill one (1) full-time Risk Manager vacancy in Santa Barbara. The candidate selected for this vacancy will bring a high level of professionalism, knowledge, and energy to the team.

The Risk Manager is responsible and has authority over the County’s risk portfolio, including the workers’ compensation, general liability, unemployment insurance, medical malpractice, cyber security, County workplace safety, and contract review programs. This position reports to an Assistant County Executive Officer, is a member of the leadership team and is responsible for managing all aspects of the Risk Management Division.

This role oversees highly complex and strategic risk management functions and have responsibility for significant budget/funding levels. Decision-making includes establishing work unit objectives and goals, exercising considerable discretion in selecting the method to address a problem or issue, and fostering collaboration among and between the work units supervised as well as work units under the direction of others.

This position is classified as a Risk & Safety Manager III in the management classification series. This is an at-will position, exempt from Civil Service provisions. The incumbent serves at the pleasure of the County Executive Officer.

This role requires onsite work, but after initial training there is a potential for a hybrid work schedule, depending on the department and position needs. Onsite work for a minimum of three days will be required.

Examples of Duties
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Assesses and purchases a variety of traditional and non-traditional insurance products to protect the County’s employees and assets.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Performs other related duties as required.

Employment Standards
Education and Experience:
The knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below may be acquired through various types of training, education, and experience. A typical way to acquire the required knowledge and abilities would be:
• Equivalent of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in occupational health, safety engineering, insurance/risk management, business administration, or related field; AND
• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in risk management, occupational health and safety, claims administration, or liability and casualty insurance that includes three (3) years as a supervisor or manager.