Senior Risk Management and Safety Specialist
City of El Paso
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Risk Manager
City of El Paso
Risk MGMT
Location
El Paso, Texas, 79901
Salary
$87,760 - $151,310
per year
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This role involves leading the city's risk management efforts by assessing potential threats, advising business teams on controls, and ensuring risks are handled properly across the organization.
You'll oversee programs for insurance and self-insurance while building relationships with department leaders to promote a culture of risk awareness.
It's ideal for someone with strong leadership experience in risk who enjoys strategic oversight and collaboration in a public sector setting.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Risk Management, Finance, Accounting, Business, Public Administration, Information Systems, or related field
- Five years of professional risk management experience, including three years in a supervisory or management capacity
- Valid Texas Class 'C' Driver’s License or equivalent by appointment
- Obtain Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Associate in Risk Management–Public Sector (ARM-P), Certified Risk Manager (CRM), or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) within 18 months of employment
- Expertise in enterprise risk assessment, control identification, and process improvements
- Ability to build relationships with department heads and promote risk culture
- Knowledge of regulatory guidance, emerging ERM trends, and three lines of defense model
Full Job Description
MOS Code: None
Seeking an Enterprise Risk Manager to drive the second-line enterprise risk assessment program and act in an advisory role to the First-Line Business teams.
You will play a key role on the Risk Management team, with the subject matter expertise that ensures risk management practices are appropriately managed and adequately scaled across the enterprise and First-Line Business teams.
Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Risk Management, Finance, Accounting, Business, Public Administration, Information Systems, or related field, and five (5) years of professional risk management experience, including three (3) years in a supervisory or management capacity.
Licenses and Certifications: Valid Texas Class “C” Driver’s License or equivalent from another state by the time of appointment.?Must obtain an Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Associate in Risk Management–Public Sector (ARM-P), Certified Risk Manager (CRM), or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) certification within 18 months of employment.
Requirements
Under direction, oversees, manages, and directs the City’s fully-insured, self-insured, and risk management programs.
Qualifications
Serve as the second-line owner of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) risk assessment framework. Involves: Providing expertise in the identification and assessment of controls; the development or enhancement of these controls; process improvement activities; and the assessment of management self-monitoring programs. Build, maintain, and enhance relationships with department heads to ensure the smooth implementation of risk management activities across the organization. Provide independent risk oversight, challenge, and aggregation of first-line risks to develop a holistic enterprise risk profile and support enterprise-wide risk visibility and reporting to executive management and risk committees.
Monitor and elevate issues related to quality, timeliness, or non-compliance with the risk assessment process to the Enterprise Risk Management Director. Involves: Own the second-line process for identifying, assessing, and monitoring strategic and emerging risks across the enterprise. Ensure emerging and strategic risks are integrated into enterprise risk reporting and decision-making forums. Continually assess and enhance the effectiveness of the risk assessment framework and ERM processes; identify opportunities for improvement and drive implementation of related changes across first-line business teams. Promote a strong risk culture throughout the organization, fostering awareness of risk management principles and practices. Stay current with risk management best practices, regulatory guidance, and emerging ERM trends. Provide cross-functional insight and lead coordination for ad hoc risk events, including partnering with stakeholders across the organization.
Collaborate with departmental managers owning risk mitigation strategies. Involves: Addressing risk-related issues and implementing risk mitigation strategies. Coordinate with Internal Audit to align enterprise risk insights with risk-based audit planning and coverage, while preserving clear independence between second-line oversight and third-line assurance. Ensure risk assessment standards are aligned with established risk frameworks and taxonomies. Support broader Enterprise Risk initiatives and cross-functional risk activities, contributing expertise, analysis, and execution as needed to advance the effectiveness and maturity of the ERM program. Recommend process improvements to optimize controls and compliance with existing City policies. Collaborate effectively with stakeholders to fully develop and articulate the risk management framework, clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the three lines of defense. Assist in preparing responses, including documentation of follow-up and resolution of open points to Internal Audit and the City Attorney’s Office.
Serve as a liaison to stakeholders. Involves: Reviewing insurance provisions/requirements in vendor agreements, contracts, subcontracts, and leases to ensure compliance with insurance requirements and risk management programs. Supporting the City’s self-insurance program by assessing financial exposures and establishing loss prevention standards to mitigate risks. Partner with managers across the organization (Operational Risk, Compliance Risk, Information Security, etc.) to enhance the ERM function and ensure effectiveness and efficiency. Define and maintain policies and SOPs for ERM framework components (risk register, issue management, incident management, etc.) Provide oversight and advice on compliance with the ERM Framework.
Manage the development, coordination, and administration of the ERM function. Involves: Setting, reviewing, and measuring risk management standards, and documenting standards, processes, and procedures. Build, maintain, and enhance relationships with department and business heads to ensure the smooth implementation of risk management activities across the organization. Provide leadership to staff, ensuring strategic and department-level initiatives are prioritized, including defining performance goals and targets. Coaching and leading high-performance teams.
Supervise assigned personnel. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide, and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and succession development. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes.
Supervise assigned personnel. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide, and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and succession development. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes.
Additional Information
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