Risk & Insurance Specialist, Senior

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston seeks a Senior Risk & Insurance Specialist to lead insurance programs, manage claims, and implement risk strategies protecting assets and ensuring legal compliance.

The role involves coordinating renewals, evaluating policy language, and supporting grant-related insurance operations, with a strong focus on collaboration across departments and external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in risk management or related fields.
• Experience with insurance policy handling and claims preferred.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates insurance renewals and placements, in-house services, invoice approval, and payments.
• Compiles loss data and interfaces with actuaries for annual reports and captive program.
• Reviews contract language to ensure required coverage complies with terms.
• Coordinates risk surveys, site visits, and loss adjuster inspections.
• Develops internal and external communications, speeches, emails, and scripts.
• Collaborates with internal teams on contract language and provisions.
• Analyzes policy terms when contract interpretations are needed.
• Oversees grant processes, insurance schedules, proposals, and board communications.

Skills

Risk management

Claims analytics

Brokerage services

Contract review

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Description

We’re searching for a Risk & Insurance Specialist, Sr. In this position, you’ll be responsible for managing insurance policies, handling claims, and implementing risk management strategies to protect the organization's assets and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

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Responsibilities

• Facilitates the procurement of insurance (renewals and new placements) and related in-house services, invoice approval and payment processing, and certificates of insurance
• Compiles loss run history data and interface with actuary to develop annual reports for the organization and the captive insurance program
• Reviews and advises on contract insurance policy language to ensure required coverage complies with operational, commercial, and vendor lease terms acceptable to the organization
• Assists with coordinating site tours, risk surveys, and loss adjuster site visits
• Plans, researches, writes, and edits internal and external deliverables including speeches, talking points, video scripts, briefings, emails, and other communications products
• Works with various internal departments in development and/or review of revised language of various contracts and maintains a clear understanding of the relevance of those provisions
• Reviews and analyzes insurance policies when an interpretation of contract terms is needed, or when identification of differences in selected terms across contracts is required
• Oversees the grant process, including managing insurance schedules, reviewing and approving proposals, creating presentations, communicating Board decisions, coordinating with grantees and Financial Services, tracking funds and expenses, ensuring compliance, and participating in professional development

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5 years of experience in risk management, worker's compensation and/or professional liability claims, brokerage account service, or analytics required

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.