[Hiring] Insurance Products Summer Student @Agriculture Financial Services Corporation

Role Description

Reporting to the Manager of Annual Insurance Products, the Summer Student position is part of the Product Innovation Team. The Team is primarily responsible for maintaining, enhancing and supporting AFSC products such as Annual and Perennial Crop Insurance and Livestock Price Insurance. This position will gain exposure to how the insurance products are designed, maintained and delivered from a Provincial Delivery Agent of Business Risk Management Programs. The work focuses on support for research, development and delivery efforts but will have exposure to Policy work, external vendors, Lending and other areas of the organization depending on the interests of the successful candidate and AFSC priorities.

The role will support teams with:

• Research
• Projects
• Extracting and entering data
• Writing and communicating results
• Other product-related functions

Qualifications

• Self-motivation and drive toward goals
• Creativity and problem solving
• Ability to produce results in a work from home environment
• Balance and prioritization - Ability to balance multiple competing priorities in a tight timeline
• Interpersonal skills - Ability to work with external and internal stakeholders to determine emerging trends affecting clients
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Analytical skills like critical thinking and data manipulation and analysis
• Research skills – ability to answer a research question in a defendable way and take a project from start to finish
• Comfort interacting with AFSC staff across the organization
• Ability to work on teams in a collaborative environment
• Basic knowledge of products offered by AFSC
• High level of competency with MS Word, Excel
• Ability to use AFSC's desktop suite of software including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis skills

Requirements

• Support other team members via workload relief and partnering on projects
• Support AFSC-wide product development and innovation
• Support operational priorities (e.g., determination of agronomic viability of new varieties)
• Research related to product development and operational preparedness of insurance
• Pull data out of AFSC systems (pivot tables) and other sources and analyze for use in product design, policy work, and other activities
• Organize events
• Support digital records management
• Communicate work to the organization by helping the team write up project results, create proposals, and other written and oral communications
• Other as organizational and personal development priorities unfold

Benefits

• Gain skills in research design and execution, innovation, product development, data analysis, vendor management, networking, and market research
• Learn about risk management on farms in Alberta
• Gain knowledge of how Federal and Provincial Governments deliver Business Risk Management programming to farm clients
• Work with highly creative and innovative co-workers with potential for knowledge transfer in their areas of expertise