RISK MANAGER

Roles and Responsibilities: The Risk Manager leads operations of our risk and safety initiatives. This role provides oversight of safety and risk related to all programs and across seasons. The Risk Manager evaluates risk and determines mitigations to maintain a healthy and safe customer experience. The Risk Manager lives out our core values, summarized by love God, love each other and don’t waste fun (safely).

Key Duties

The Risk Manager is responsible for working to identify and assess risk, then implementing prevention and control strategies to reduce major risks. Key duties involved with high-risk activities include coordination, training, audits, operations, facilities and equipment inspections. Specific high-risk areas include boating, pools and water activities, ropes, vehicles, abuse prevention, emergency response, and security. The role requires detail assessment, critical thinking and assertive follow-through on initiatives. The applicant must represent Christ and His gospel, having fun safely, be willing to talk to people about safety, and willing to be trained and train others on best practices.

This role is best suited to a high agency individual eager to shape our risk culture. The ideal candidate is someone who loves the mission of T Bar M, has experience with camps and retreats, is familiar with the high-risk areas above, and willing/eager to learn risk management processes

Identify, analyze and plan controls for major risks

• Maintain a major risk register to evaluate risks and recommend controls
• Oversee and actively manage identified risks/exposures in line with operational priorities
• Recommend the continued improvement and/or development of appropriate safety controls and ensure thorough and timely resolution of issues
• Stay up to date with industry trends and attend risk workshops as beneficial
  
  

Support safety in high-risk activities

• Become a subject matter expert on key risks and/or ensure someone on staff is the expert
• Ensure planned protections/controls are documented in staff policies and summer staff playbook
• Support training and be willing to lead training where qualified
• Support efficient processes to ensure training sign offs are documented
• Oversee and do periodic inspections and audits
• Engage with staff and correct unsafe actions on the spot
• Support root cause and corrective action investigations
• Support incident reporting.
  
  

Evaluate risk program effectiveness

• Speak into the strategic risk management vision considering T Bar M’s programs and industry standards, as well as what is unique to our operations, objectives, initiatives, and strategy
• Ensure strategic priorities are carried out annually based on budget, customer experience, industry learnings and recorded incidents
• Manage budget in accordance with annual strategic risk plan
• Review of new capital projects and activities evaluating new risks and updating documentation
• Perform annual incident analysis and provide suggestions for improvement
  
  

Coordinate security and emergency response

• Oversee relationship and coordination of security personnel (primarily summers)
• Ensure emergency response plans are in place for organization wide crisis management, such as fire, storm/flood, intruder, missing camper, active shooter
• Review the framework and methodology for each emergency response, as well as coordinating the training, communication, and testing
• Collaboration with local first responders
  
  

Support insurance claims management and insurance renewal alongside Human Resources

Pursue compliance with all state and federal laws ensuring the organization's risk management policies and strategies are in compliance with applicable regulations

Spiritual Growth and Alignment

• Consistent evidence of a growing relationship with Christ
• Awareness and desire to deploy his/her spiritual gift(s) in this ministry
• Agreement with T Bar M’s Doctrinal Statement
• Sense of calling to T Bar M
• Whole-hearted support of T Bar M’s Vision, Core Values, and Mission
  
  

Education/Proven Experience

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 2 years of experience in camping or comparable work history with proven effectiveness
• Able to coordinate across teams and influence others who do not directly report to you, and/or are more senior in the organization. Seriously, you’ll need a backbone to communicate issues to anyone in the organization or on our property regardless of their role. This role is neither for the timid or the challenger, but for the analytical and question asker with an even temperament.
  
  

Good “fit” for T Bar M Camps & Retreats Culture

• Camp ministry is a lifestyle in which we subject ourselves to accountability with one another as we work in community together.
• Ability to keep up with the pace of “camp life”
• Understands that all work is ministry and communicates and models this to staff
• Decisions and actions must consistently reflect the core values of our ministry.
  
  

A “team Player” Who Maintains a Collaborative Attitude

• Ability to think ministry-wide by having a “T Bar M” mentality. We don’t waste fun AND we will send people home the same, preferably better, than when they arrived.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and simplicity.
• Organizational/Office Skills such as Word, Excel and Power Point.
• Ability to multitask.
• Collaborative mentality – we are a team-based ministry.
• Effective time-management skills and the ability to meet deadlines
• Adherence to work within budget and ability to make decisions factoring in quality and cost
  
  

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, grasp, push, pull, play with, carry or otherwise manipulate objects.
• Ability to perform tasks requiring action of muscles or groups of muscles and foot and/or hand-eye coordination. May be required to participate in games such as gnip gnop, belly flops or paper, rock scissors.
• Maintain current Challenge Course certifications (including climbing up to 50 ft and able to keep up with physical demand of job)
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.
• This position works both indoors and outdoors in extreme temperatures.
• Must be willing to work some evenings and weekends as business needs require.
  
  

Compensation

The compensation range for this position is CCG’s Grade 4 – Manager’s tier in our compensation structure and is eligible for T Bar M Camps & Retreats’ competitive insurance and benefits package.

Center for Christian Growth, Inc.

Center for Christian Growth, Inc. (CCG) is a 501(c)3 public charity, headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas. CCG operates youth and family camps and retreats in New Braunfels and at Lake Travis near Austin under the trade name T Bar M Camps & Retreats. T Bar M is a Christ-centered, year-round camp, retreat and guest group ministry. All employees are required to be in alignment with CCG’s Core Identity (Mission, Vision, Values) and the Belief Statement. CCG is governed by its Board of Trustees, to whom the President reports.