[Hiring] Underwriting Counsel @Westcor Land Title Insurance Company®

Role Description

We are looking for a professional to analyze title insurance risks, provide underwriting solutions, and ensure compliance with laws. This role involves handling residential and commercial transactions, conducting training seminars, and delivering excellent customer service. They will also help with business development by calling on established Westcor agents and prospects. This will be a dual role of both sales/business development and underwriting.

• Analyze title insurance risks, underwriting issues, and regulatory concerns
• Provide underwriting solutions to agents, sales team, and title examiners in accordance with Westcor company guidelines as well as local, state and federal law
• Handle residential as well as commercial transactions underwriting
• Present training seminars to educate title agents and production staff (both online and in person)
• Develop CE & CLE courses for title and attorney agents in NC, SC and GA
• Provide outstanding customer service while making sound underwriting decisions
• Handle a high volume of underwriting inquiries via email and telephone in a timely, responsive, and professional manner
• Analyze and respond to indemnity requests
• Call on existing Westcor agents and help increase wallet share
• Identify new business opportunities through prospecting
• Travel with sales staff, managers or other underwriters for agent visits throughout the states
• Work well in a remote team environment

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience concentrated in North Carolina real property and title insurance
• Thorough knowledge of NC, SC, and Georgia real property law and related areas as applicable to real property transactions
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Relationship building
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Must be a member in good standing with the North Carolina Bar

Requirements

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Physical Demands

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.

• Regularly required to talk or hear
• Frequently required to sit
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Employer-paid disability and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401K with company match
• Paid time off and company-paid holidays
• Wellness resources