Intern-Claims – Insure Your Future Internship

Explore a variety of careers in insurance with EMC! By participating in our paid intern program, you’ll develop industry-related knowledge, enhance skills that are transferable to any professional setting and do meaningful work to help achieve our goals. Your daily responsibilities, special projects and activities will provide both structured and unstructured opportunities to help you learn and grow as a professional. When you network with executives, connect with a mentor, explore other departments and volunteer in the community, you’ll see your impact at EMC on a larger level. Plus, successful interns are invited to apply for regular full-time positions. Join us at EMC! You’re going to love it here—you can count on it.

**This position is eligible to work from home in Iowa.**

Responsibilities:

In partnership with the Iowa Economic Development Authority’s (EDA) and Iowa Insurance Division’s (IID) Insure Your Future program, EMC’s goal is to encourage career exploration and professional skills development by providing interns a chance to rotate through a variety of experiences across the organization. In addition to real world experience, interns will enjoy opportunities to meet, network and develop leadership skills through a series of four leadership development sessions facilitated by the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

This internship opportunity is a 12 week program focused on exposing interns to EMC’s various business units and accelerating the development of professional skills though claims organizations, active networking, and relationship-building. We are actively looking for candidates that have a passion for continuous learning and exploring new roles in the insurance industry.

This internship opportunity offers exciting opportunities for business exposure and individual mentoring. Examples of functional areas may include: Underwriting, Claims; Innovation, Marketing; Product Management, Operations and more.  

Essential Functions:

• Summer paid internship working with EMC’s branch and corporate claims departments

• Assists the claims team in the investigation, negotiation and disposition of minor multi-line claims

• Utilizes information to develop meaningful data insights using Business Intelligence (BI) tools

• Partners with key business stakeholders in Claims to gather information and requirements for data analysis and reporting

• Learns EMC culture, business processes and products

• Gains an understanding of the insurance claims process

• Gains an understanding of the insurance industry

Education & Experience:

• Business major, preferably in insurance, marketing or finance

• College freshman, and/or students that have most recently completed their sophomore year

• Cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher (preferred)

• Demonstrated leadership with community or school organizations and/or through work experience

• Must be in or be willing to relocate to the Des Moines metro area for programming events

• Interest in property casualty insurance career

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Analytical ability

• Strong organizational skills

• Sound decision-making and problem-solving

• Attention to detail

• Good personal computer knowledge

• Good working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint

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