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This range is provided by ChristianaCare. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range $135,720.00/yr - $217,172.80/yr
Job Overview At ChristianaCare, we serve our neighbors as respectful, expert, caring partners in their health. We do this by creating innovative, effective, affordable systems of care that our neighbors value. Supporting this mission, we seek a Vice President, Risk Management. The role will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the health system's enterprise clinical risk management, claims management, and insurance portfolio. This individual will integrate clinical and legal expertise with risk management practices to reduce exposure, protect organizational assets, and support safe and high‑quality care delivery. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven ability to build solid relationships with team members and key stakeholders. If this role sounds intriguing, please apply.
Benefits ChristianaCare offers an annual incentive bonus and a collegial space where innovation is valued. We offer incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and phenomenal discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more. Our medical/dental/vision benefits are available to our caregivers on their first day of employment. We also offer two retirement mechanisms: a 403(b) and a defined contribution plan.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership for all risk management, claims management, and insurance activities.
Supervise health system and departmental policies and procedures on clinical risk management, claims management, and insurance activities.
Direct leaders responsible for Clinical Risk Management and Claims Management, ensuring integrated processes across prevention, claims, and insurance.
Oversee claims management across the health system, including professional and general liability, directors and officers, cyber, auto, property, employment, and all other claims, working collaboratively with members of the internal legal and risk management team, outside counsel, and claims consultants.
Responsible for risk management reports and underwriting process for ChristianaCare captive insurance company; maintain requirements related to specific insurance programs for both captive and commercial lines of insurance.
Select, retain, and manage performance of outside defense counsel; ensure quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of representation.
Serve as executive sponsor for insurance program strategy and renewals, working in partnership with brokers, carriers, and Finance Department.
Advise executive leadership and Board committees on significant claims, litigation trends, and systemic risk issues.
Prepare and present reports to Claims Advisory Group making recommendations for handling and authority for settlement, if appropriate.
Qualifications
Juris Doctor (JD)
10+ years of progressively responsible legal experience in healthcare law, including litigation and risk management.
2-5 years of experience with captive insurance.
Demonstrated success leading multi‑disciplinary teams and managing external counsel.
Deep knowledge of healthcare liability, insurance, and risk management practices.
ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most multidimensional health systems, centered on improving health outcomes, making high‑quality care more accessible and lowering health‑care costs. Christiana Care includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, medical aid units, three hospitals (1,300 beds), a Level I trauma center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. We rank 21st in the nation for hospital admissions.
ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit teaching health system with our outstanding, data‑powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value‑based care. ChristianaCare is crafting the future of health care.
Working for Christiana Care offers the best of urban and suburban living with multiple housing options, excellent restaurants and entertainment venues, quality schools and a short driving distance to popular Delaware and New Jersey beaches. The location provides easy access to Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York City – all within a short drive or train ride from Wilmington, DE.
Annual Compensation Range $135,720.00 - $217,172.80
Post End Date Feb 1, 2026
EEO Statement ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/
Equal Opportunity Employer Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
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This range is provided by ChristianaCare. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range $135,720.00/yr - $217,172.80/yr
Job Overview At ChristianaCare, we serve our neighbors as respectful, expert, caring partners in their health. We do this by creating innovative, effective, affordable systems of care that our neighbors value. Supporting this mission, we seek a Vice President, Risk Management. The role will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the health system's enterprise clinical risk management, claims management, and insurance portfolio. This individual will integrate clinical and legal expertise with risk management practices to reduce exposure, protect organizational assets, and support safe and high‑quality care delivery. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven ability to build solid relationships with team members and key stakeholders. If this role sounds intriguing, please apply.
Benefits ChristianaCare offers an annual incentive bonus and a collegial space where innovation is valued. We offer incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and phenomenal discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more. Our medical/dental/vision benefits are available to our caregivers on their first day of employment. We also offer two retirement mechanisms: a 403(b) and a defined contribution plan.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership for all risk management, claims management, and insurance activities.
Supervise health system and departmental policies and procedures on clinical risk management, claims management, and insurance activities.
Direct leaders responsible for Clinical Risk Management and Claims Management, ensuring integrated processes across prevention, claims, and insurance.
Oversee claims management across the health system, including professional and general liability, directors and officers, cyber, auto, property, employment, and all other claims, working collaboratively with members of the internal legal and risk management team, outside counsel, and claims consultants.
Responsible for risk management reports and underwriting process for ChristianaCare captive insurance company; maintain requirements related to specific insurance programs for both captive and commercial lines of insurance.
Select, retain, and manage performance of outside defense counsel; ensure quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of representation.
Serve as executive sponsor for insurance program strategy and renewals, working in partnership with brokers, carriers, and Finance Department.
Advise executive leadership and Board committees on significant claims, litigation trends, and systemic risk issues.
Prepare and present reports to Claims Advisory Group making recommendations for handling and authority for settlement, if appropriate.
Qualifications
Juris Doctor (JD)
10+ years of progressively responsible legal experience in healthcare law, including litigation and risk management.
2-5 years of experience with captive insurance.
Demonstrated success leading multi‑disciplinary teams and managing external counsel.
Deep knowledge of healthcare liability, insurance, and risk management practices.
ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most multidimensional health systems, centered on improving health outcomes, making high‑quality care more accessible and lowering health‑care costs. Christiana Care includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, medical aid units, three hospitals (1,300 beds), a Level I trauma center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. We rank 21st in the nation for hospital admissions.
ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit teaching health system with our outstanding, data‑powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value‑based care. ChristianaCare is crafting the future of health care.
Working for Christiana Care offers the best of urban and suburban living with multiple housing options, excellent restaurants and entertainment venues, quality schools and a short driving distance to popular Delaware and New Jersey beaches. The location provides easy access to Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York City – all within a short drive or train ride from Wilmington, DE.
Annual Compensation Range $135,720.00 - $217,172.80
Post End Date Feb 1, 2026
EEO Statement ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/
Equal Opportunity Employer Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
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