Director, Actuarial Services

Evolent; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Evolent is seeking a Director of Actuarial Services in Columbus, Ohio. In this role, you will ensure high standards for actuarial work across teams while managing multiple projects and coaching team members.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, be an ASA or FSA, and have at least 5 years of health actuarial experience. Strong proficiency in Excel and project management skills are also required.

The position offers a salary range of $140,000 to $160,000, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a health actuarial setting.
• Proven ability to evaluate and improve complex actuarial models.
• Experience presenting to senior internal and client audiences.

Responsibilities

• Guide actuarial work to meet high standards.
• Review and challenge model design and assumptions.
• Manage multiple efforts across teams.

Skills

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Project management skills

Ability to communicate clearly

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field

Associate or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (ASA or FSA)

Tools

PowerBI

Job description

What You’ll Be Doing

About the Role: The Director, Actuarial Services is responsible for ensuring actuarial work across analytics and finance teams meets a high standard for quality, rigor, and business relevance. This is not a traditional ownership role. Instead, you operate across teams, helping shape how work is done, improving the quality of models and analyses, and making sure outputs are sound and defensible. You will work closely with actuarial, risk analytics, opportunity analytics, and other analytics teams as work is being built. In some cases you will step in directly to help refine or structure a model. In others, you will guide the approach, challenge assumptions, and ensure the end result meets actuarial standards. Beyond the work itself, you will help teams improve how they operate by simplifying workflows, reducing unnecessary manual effort, and supporting adoption of better tools and processes. You are not responsible for building AI or automation solutions, but you are expected to influence how they are used and ensure they raise the overall quality of output. Success in this role means work across teams is more consistent, more defensible, and easier to scale without adding unnecessary complexity.

Core Actuarial Leadership

• Participate in actuarial, risk analytics, opportunity analytics, and broader analytics team forums to guide work as it’s being built
• Work alongside teams to shape models, analyses, and outputs so they meet actuarial standards for rigor and defensibility
• Step into builds when needed, but focus on raising the quality of work across teams, not owning every model end-to-end
• Bring an actuarial lens to ensure assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions are sound and aligned with business intent
• Help teams translate business questions into structured, analytically sound approaches

Model Oversight & Risk Management

• Review and challenge model design, assumptions, and methodologies across teams
• Ensure consistency and clarity in how work is structured, documented, and communicated
• Identify risk areas in models and analyses, and guide teams to address them early
• Establish practical guardrails and review patterns that raise the overall quality bar without slowing teams down
• Act as a point of escalation for complex or high-risk analytical work, helping bring it to a level stakeholders can trust
• Set the standard for what “actuarially sound” looks like and ensure work meets that bar before it reaches leadership or clients

Project & Team Leadership

• Manage multiple efforts across teams and ensure work aligns to business priorities and timelines
• Coach and develop actuarial and analytics team members
• Set clear expectations for quality, timelines, and communication
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across actuarial, analytics, finance, and clinical teams

Client & Executive Communication

• Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights
• Present results to internal leadership and external client stakeholders
• Support business development efforts through analytical insights

Process Improvement & Workflow Efficiency

• Identify high-friction areas in models, reporting, and data workflows
• Drive improvements that reduce manual work and improve consistency
• Partner with analytics and AI teams to implement automation and self-service solutions where appropriate
• Support adoption of new tools and workflows within the actuarial and analytics teams
• Track improvements in cycle time, accuracy, and team capacity

Qualifications – Required

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, or data science)
• Associate or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (ASA or FSA)
• 5+ years of experience in a health actuarial setting
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Proven ability to evaluate and improve complex actuarial models
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience presenting to senior internal and client audiences

Qualifications – Preferred

• Experience in value-based care or Medicaid
• Experience working with claims-based healthcare data
• Familiarity with data and reporting tools (PowerBI or similar)
• Experience working with or alongside analytics or automation teams

What Success Looks Like

• Work across teams is consistent, structured, and holds up under scrutiny
• Models and analyses are trusted and clearly understood by stakeholders
• Teams operate with less rework and fewer manual steps
• Quality improves without slowing down delivery
• Stakeholders rely on outputs to make decisions with confidence

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.

Salary Range: $140,000 – $160,000. This is part of a total compensation package that may include comprehensive benefits.