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Underwriting Program Manager – Stop Loss (Fully Remote or Hybrid – Hartford, CT Area)

A growing insurance organization based in Hartford, CT is looking to add an experienced Underwriting Program Manager to oversee a dedicated block of Specific and Aggregate Stop Loss business. This is a key leadership role with ownership over pricing strategy and underwriting results, offering the opportunity to make a real impact within a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.

The position can be fully remote, with a hybrid option (2 days onsite) for candidates located within 50 miles of Hartford.

Compensation: $130,000–$160,000 base salary

Responsibilities: 

• Evaluate case information and risk factors to develop competitive and sound pricing recommendations for both new and in-force Specific and Aggregate Stop Loss accounts, in alignment with underwriting guidelines.

• Review large claim data in advance of clinical review to identify potential high-risk drivers and determine appropriate next steps.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with sales partners, brokers, TPAs, underwriters, and other internal and external stakeholders.

• Advise clients and partners on stop loss structures and plan design considerations to ensure appropriate risk protection.

• Partner with the sales team throughout the quoting process to help position proposals competitively and strategically.

• Exercise independent underwriting authority while ensuring complete and accurate file documentation.

• Analyze submissions that fall outside standard guidelines and prepare well-supported exception recommendations for senior leadership review.

• Present clear risk assessments, financial impact analysis, and strategic rationale to support executive decision-making.

• Review, approve, or decline cases within authority, while offering guidance and alternative structuring recommendations to team members.

• Oversee assigned program workflow to ensure timely turnaround and balanced distribution of work across underwriting staff.

• Identify and evaluate key medical cost drivers impacting both new business and renewal accounts.

• Provide input to senior leadership on enhancements to underwriting guidelines, policies, and best practices.

• Mentor and develop underwriting team members to strengthen technical expertise, risk evaluation skills, and overall performance.

• Deliver ongoing coaching and structured feedback to drive consistent service standards and productivity.

• Partner with administrative teams to ensure documentation supports audit readiness and compliance requirements.

• Manage the portfolio to achieve targeted profitability and performance objectives.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and understanding of healthcare payers, health plan administration, and medical service providers.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience

• 10+ years of medical stop loss underwriting experience

• Prior leadership experience (3+ years managing or mentoring underwriters preferred)

• Strong knowledge of stop loss pricing, risk evaluation, and healthcare cost drivers

• Proven ability to lead teams while partnering effectively with sales and external stakeholders

• Strong analytical and decision-making skills

• Highly organized with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced setting

What’s Offered

• Competitive base salary

• Employer-paid health insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Flexible remote or hybrid work options
  
  For immediate consideration, please email your resume to Ellie Boyd at
  
  

Environment and Human Health, Inc seeks a dynamic and mission-driven Executive Director to lead the organization into its next phase of impact and growth, and has retained PNP Staffing Group to lead this search.

About Environment and Human Health, Inc.

Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) is a science-based nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying, researching, and reducing environmental risks to human health. For three decades, EHHI has played a national leadership role at the intersection of environmental science, public health, and public policy, producing influential research and advancing evidence-based solutions to protect vulnerable populations.

EHHI’s work spans a wide range of issues, including toxic chemicals, air and water quality, plastics, pesticides, consumer product safety, and emerging environmental health threats. Our research and policy advocacy have informed legislative action, regulatory reform, and public awareness at the state and national levels. EHHI’s Board of Directors includes nationally recognized experts in medicine, public health, environmental science, law, and policy.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will provide strategic, operational, and intellectual leadership, ensuring that EHHI continues to produce high-quality research, translate science into policy, and effectively communicate findings to decision-makers and the public.

The Executive Director will oversee all aspects of the organization, including fundraising, program development, external relations, and organizational management, while serving as EHHI’s primary public representative.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Vision

• Work closely with the Board to strengthen governance, planning, and to drive organizational growth and impact.
• Lead the development and implementation of EHHI’s strategic priorities in research, policy advocacy, and public engagement.
• Identify emerging environmental health issues and provide expert advice on how human health risks may be reduced or avoided.
• Engage with the Board to craft significant policy recommendations.

Fundraising

• Build long-term partnerships with new major donors, understanding their values and interests and matching them with EHHI initiatives.
• Introduce best practices in cultivation and stewardship for the current circle of individual donors
• Manage existing relationships with foundations funders; research new foundations that focus on various aspects of our work and write compelling proposals.

Financial Stewardship

• Oversee organizational operations, budgeting, and compliance in alignment with nonprofit best practices.

External Relations and Communications

• Serve as EHHI’s primary spokesperson with policymakers, funders, media, and partner organizations.
• Strengthen EHHI’s visibility and influence through public speaking, op-eds, testimony, and stakeholder engagement.
• Cultivate strategic partnerships with academic institutions, advocacy organizations, and public agencies.

Research and Policy Leadership

• The board will oversee research agenda, ensuring scientific rigor, credibility, and policy relevance.
• Translate complex scientific findings into clear, compelling, accessible policy recommendations and public communications.
• Represent EHHI in legislative, regulatory, academic, and coalition settings at the state and national levels.

Qualifications and Experience

• 7+ years of nonprofit leadership experience, including demonstrated success in major gifts and institutional giving.
• Graduate degree in public health, environmental science, or a related field preferred; candidates from law, government, or business with relevant experience will be considered.
• Strong understanding of budget creation and management.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders including researchers, public officials, donors, and impacted communities.

Important Qualities

• Entrepreneurial drive, with a versatile skillset and hands-on approach.
• A natural relationship-builder and networker.
• High emotional intelligence; a consensus-builder and good listener.
• Strong leadership skills, intellectual curiosity, and a demonstrated commitment to the effect of the environment on human health, and to providing objective information.

Salary: $130,000 - $150,000

Benefits: EHHI offers comprehensive employee benefits (medical, dental, vision and life insurance) as well as generous paid time off (vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays).

Location: Hybrid within commuting distance of New Haven, CT

EHHI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization.

PNP Staffing Group has been retained to lead this search. Please apply through LinkedIn by March 6 and your resume will reach Wade Savitt, Executive Recruiter

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran

• Clinical Skills
  • Demonstrates Skill in Implementation of Treatment and Providing Therapy
• Productivity
  • Manages a Full Clinical Caseload on a Daily Basis
• Documentation and Administrative Tasks
  • Demonstrates consistency and timeliness with non-clinical tasks
• Professionalism
  • Demonstrates Participation in Professional Development
• Comprehensive Patient Care
  • Demonstrates Ability to Function as Interdisciplinary Team Member

EDUCATION

Graduate of AOTA accredited Occupational Therapist Assistant program.

EXPERIENCE

Clinical group experience in behavioral health is preferred.

LICENSURE

Current Connecticut licensure in occupational therapy assistant or demonstrated eligibility. NBCOT certified required. All newly hired employees must have current BLS certification or obtain within one month of hire.

SPECIAL SKILLS

The worker must be able to stand, walk, talk, hear, lift, push, pull, reach, stoop, kneel, climb and perform repetitive motions, of the wrist, fingers or hands. The worker is subject to inside environmental/atmospheric conditions such as poor ventilation and is also subject to hazards, such as exposure to chemicals. The worker must be able to operate various exercise equipment, whirlpools, ultrasound and electrical stimulation equipment. The worker must be able to exert up to 100 lbs. of force occasionally, and /or up to 50 lbs. of force frequently and/or up to, 20 lbs. of force constantly to move objects or the human body. Functions with or without the assistance of reasonable accommodation as determined on a case by case basis.

HOURS: Per diem/As needed.

Clinical experience in behavioral health preferred. NBCOT certified.

YNHHS Requisition ID 130601