Counsel - Enterprise Risk Management

JOB RESPONSIBILITITES

• Operational Responsibilities/Direct Enterprise Risk Management: Works with the VP, Deputy General Counsel of Risk and AVP, Insurance and Captive Operations to help set the strategic planning for the Organization’s Enterprise Risk Management program. Develop and implement an integrated, enterprise level risk management system incorporating healthcare risk management principles and standards, clinical patient safety techniques, and strategies to protect institutional capital.  Design Risk Framework Components - Enhance, build, or expand Risk Assessment, Risk Scoring, and Risk Reporting infrastructures, including relevant practices and processes across the Medical Center, and socialize concepts cross-functionally. Conduct risk assessments, collecting and analyzing documentation, statistics, reports, and market trends. Complete biennial risk assessments with members of the Board of Trustees, Senior Management, and stakeholders in primary areas and analyze accompanying data.  Develop a common risk scoring mechanism across organizational risk assessments and reviews.  Enhance ERM risk reporting to ensure all risks are appropriately and consistently managed.  Develop annual institutional report, including standardized risk scoring and methods of mitigation.  Work directly with Senior Management to standardize Board of Trustees report and deliver report findings and assessment annually to Board and Senior Management. Utilizes software system to automate risk mitigation reporting.

• Operational Responsibilities/Assist with Clinical & Corporate Risk Management: Develop and implement an integrated, enterprise level healthcare risk management system incorporating healthcare risk management principles and standards, clinical patient safety techniques, and strategies to protect institutional capital. Maintains relationships with key Operational Leaders and reviews and assesses risk management aspects of institutional policies and protocols; makes recommendations and implements modifications and improvements to ensure the Medical Center meets industry best practices. Partners with AVP, Insurance & Captive Operations to ensure the insurance programs adequately meets the needs of the organization’s risks. Oversees management and adjusting of reports from Safety Reporting System. Oversees and provides a variety of educational programs for Operational Leaders and employees in an effort to promote awareness of and mitigate risk to the Organization.

• Support Other Risk Management Activities - Participate in investigations, conduct interviews, gather information, review medical records and literature as requested in connection with patient safety matters, and participate in meeting preparation as requested. Collaborate with in-house legal counsel to appropriately manage property, casualty, and liability claims against CCHMC, its providers, and subsidiaries/affiliates. Review and supervise the maintenance of select databases maintained by the department as a part of its responsibility for enterprise risk management for CCHMC. Assist with the development of training programs and providing training for staff related to designated areas and topics.

• Leadership: Provides vision, direction and leadership while working in a cross-functional capacity with key stakeholders in Legal, Finance, Compliance, Operations, IT, and HR to identify and assess organizational risks and develop risk mitigation strategies. 

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Juris Doctor

• 2+ years of experience practicing law

• Maintain licensure to practice law in the State of Ohio

Preferred:

• Experience in insurance, captive insurance, risk finance or corporate risk management across a diversity of traditional and non-traditional risks
• Experience in healthcare

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At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better. We believe in a holistic team approach, both in caring for patients and their families, and in advancing science and discovery. We strive to do better and find energy and inspiration in our shared purpose. If you want to be the best you can be, you can do it at Cincinnati Children’s. 

 Cincinnati Children's is: 

• Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a top 10  best Children's Hospitals in the nation for more than 15 years 

• Consistently among the top 3 Children's Hospitals for National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding 

• Recognized as one of America’s Best Large Employers  (2025), America’s Best Employers for New Grads (2025) 

• One of the nation's America’s Most Innovative Companies as noted by Fortune 

• Consistently certified as great place to work 

• A Leading Disability Employer as noted by the National Organization on Disability 

• Magnet® designated for the fourth consecutive time by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) 

 We Embrace Innovation—Together.  We believe in empowering our teams with the tools that help us work smarter and care better. That’s why we support the responsible use of artificial intelligence. By encouraging innovation, we’re creating space for new ideas, better outcomes, and a stronger future—for all of us. 

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Cincinnati Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an environment of dignity and respect for all our employees, patients, and families. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, genetic information, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. EEO/Veteran/Disability