Risk Officer

Salary: $116,105 - $140,267 (GS.24) Annually 

Work Hours:  Monday – Friday, 8:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. (EST)
*Hours may vary due to work assignments, or projects.*

Work Location: City Hall, 100 East 11th Street

FLSA Status:  This is an Appointed, Exempt position.

Department:  Risk Management

CLASSIFICATION SUMMARY:

The Risk Officer leads the Risk Management department with; identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risk to ensure organizational success. Risk Officer strives to leverage the risk landscape at an enterprise level. As a senior executive responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks across an organization, including financial, operational, legal, reputational, and strategic risks, by developing and implementing comprehensive risk management strategies, while reporting findings to senior management to make informed decisions; essentially acting as the organization's primary risk oversight leader. Leads a department of staff for all Occupational Safety and Risk Management functions. This includes claims management, insurance, PPE, RIMs data, IOD, MVAs, and City/State/Federal regulatory compliance. Manages these EIG policies: Safety Policy, Drug & Alcohol Policy, IOD Policy, Vehicle Accident Prevention Policy, but collaborates to ensure risk perspective on all City policies.

SERIES LEVEL:

This is a stand-alone position.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

(The following duties ARE NOT intended to serve as a comprehensive list of all duties performed by all employees in this classification, only a representative summary of the primary duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position-specific duties.)

Provides strategic risk or safety input to operations and activities, to include planning, coordinating, administering and evaluating programs, projects, strategic planning, processes, procedures, systems, standards and/or service offerings; ensuring compliance with Federal, State and Local laws, regulations, codes and/or standards; coordinating activities between multiple service areas and working to integrate and coordinate service areas.

Ensures implementation of directives issued by the Mayor.

Supplies ongoing risk reporting to the Mayor and Executive Leadership with mitigation recommendations, best practices, industry or regulatory standards, or comparative data from other municipalities.

Providing overall administrative and operational management for the department, which includes; supervises Department staff to include prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff is trained; ensuring employees follow policies and procedures; making hiring, termination and disciplinary recommendations.

Directs the preparation and execution of the Department's operational and capital budgets; authorizes expenditures; monitors expenditures and makes required budget adjustments and approves a variety of payments, including contractual payments.

Maintains strong working relationships with the general public, area businesses, clients, the media, community partners, and other departmental leaders.

Serves as a member of various committees as assigned.

Collaborates with internal departments, applicable Boards and Commissions, task forces, advisory groups, the general public, external agencies, contractors, attorneys and/or other interested parties to coordinate activities, review work, exchange information, and resolve problems.

Prepares, reviews, interprets, and analyzes a variety of complex and multi-faceted departmental information, data, contracts, plans, work requests, maps, technical publications, manuals, reference materials, forms, schedules, calendars, surveys, and reports; makes recommendations based on findings.

Develops and oversees the organizational structure, the budget, and staffing of the Department of Risk Management.

Develops and implements new program initiatives.

Writing Request For Proposals and providing strategic guidance during any proposal review.

Assists with negotiation and the management of professional service contracts.

Oversees the fiduciary responsibility for the department’s general fund and federally funded budgets, including the processing of payments for outstanding expenditures.

Consults with the City Attorney on legal issues related to the operations of the department.

Collaborates and confers with internal staff, external agencies, community organizations, residents, and/or other interested parties in executing the department’s goals, objectives, and strategies.

Assists with the preparation of grant proposals and applications, contracts, and other necessary documents as may be required for necessary services.

Advises the Chief of Staff, the Mayor and City Council on all matters of safety and risk and the delivery of related services.

Must meet regular attendance requirements.

Must be able to maintain good interpersonal relationships with staff, co-workers, managers, and citizens.

Must accomplish the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations, in a timely manner.

Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree and ten (10) years of experience in roles of growing scope, responsibility, and demonstrable results in the safety, risk management, insurance, or a related field, including eight (8) years at the management level; or any combination of equivalent experience and education; Advanced degrees business administration, public administration, or a related field may be substituted on a year-for-year basis up to two (2) years of the required ten (10) years of experience as described above.

LICENSING AND CERTIFICATIONS:

A valid state driver's license is required. 

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Knowledge of managerial principles and practices; principles and practices of safety administration and risk analysis, applicable federal, state (TN OSHA) and local laws, standards, ordinances, codes, rules regulations, policies and procedures; public administration principles and practices; business administration principles and practices; information technology principles and practices; mathematical concepts; applicable Federal, State, and Local laws, ordinances, codes, rules, regulations, policies, and/or procedures; policy and procedure development practices.

Skill in prioritizing and assigning work; analyzing issues and problems related to operations, services, and management to develop complex programs, present and obtain consensus on recommendations, processes, goals, and solutions; performing mathematical calculations; preparing and analyzing reports; reading, comprehending, adapting to rapidly changing administrative requirements; interpreting and applying applicable laws, ordinances, codes, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures; analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, projecting consequences of proposed actions, and making recommendations in support of organizational goals; and, communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Positions in this class typically require reaching, fingering, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Safety Sensitive: N

Department of Transportation - CDL: N

Child Sensitive: N

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:
 

This position requires pre-employment screening(s) that include: background check. 

The City of Chattanooga, Tennessee is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourage both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.