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Special District Risk Management Authority (SDRMA) is a public agency that provides a full-service risk management program for California’s local governments. For over three decades, SDRMA has provided members with comprehensive coverage protection.
One of SDRMA’s greatest assets is its staff. SDRMA employees are smart, creative, hardworking, and passionate individuals working in areas ranging from loss prevention, claims administration, information technology, accounting, and risk pool administration. Working here requires energy, commitment, and teamwork. We are looking for an individual who shares these values to join the SDRMA team.
Under the general direction of the Chief Underwriting Officer, the Underwriting and Program Manager is responsible for the underwriting function and involved in identifying and addressing coverage issues for SDRMA. The Underwriting and Program Manager will provide effective communication, support and administrative assistance to members, prospective members, brokers and coverage counsel.
The Underwriting and Program Manager is responsible for administrative processes and project management as assigned; conducting/evaluating/implementing underwriting-related activities and processes, coordinating the activities of coverage documentation; provides day-to-day technical/professional guidance and leadership consistent with organizational values, policies, purpose and mission.
The duties include, but are not limited to:
• Supervises full-time staff, including work allocation, training, and problem resolution; evaluates performance in accordance with Authority policy, and makes recommendations for personnel actions; motivates employees to achieve peak productivity and performance.
• Responds to member requests for information, coordinates coverages requests, coverage questions, reviews and approves non-member certificates and endorsements, issues coverage documents and outside policies, communicates with members and prospective members, assists in underwriting and evaluation of prospective new members, provides coverage quotations.
• Responsible for working with the CUO and Finance team with development of the premium allocation for all programs.
• Assists Executive staff with proposed excess insurance/reinsurance terms; provide analysis of program structure and excess insurance/reinsurance terms to guide management and Board decisions.
• Ensure the maintenance, integrity/accuracy of member policy data in PolicyPlus.
Interested candidates must complete our online employment application and attach a resume: https://www.sdrma.org/about-us/employment-application/
