A risk management consultant is an employee of a political subdivision (county, city, town, health care district, etc.) with a population of more than one million persons whose governing body is composed of members of a county board of supervisors.  The risk management consultant may procure insurance or establish a self-insurance program to provide health, accident, life or disability benefits for employees or officers of the political subdivision, or to pay the political subdivision's property and casualty losses.  ARS §§ 11-981, 20-331.01.

An individual appointed by a city, town, county, special health care district or other political subdivision within a county that has a population of more than one million persons and whose governing body is composed of members of a county board of supervisors that oversees the establishment or operation of a self-insurance program for the management and administration of a system for direct payment of the political subdivision's benefits, losses or claims.