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Date: 1^st July

Time: 5pm – 7pm

Location: WTW

Target Age Group: 16 – 18 Students

Description: This is a panel event about “Your Financial Future” covering various topics such as University, Budgeting and Careers in Insurance, followed by refreshments and an opportunity to network with Insurance Professionals.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to build a career in Insurance?

Underwriting is what we do at Chaucer, as a leading speciality insurance and reinsurance group we find a way to protect business activities across the globe.

Our 18-month rotational programme offers the chance to work in various teams to and build a successful Underwriting career. You’ll start in Underwriting Operations and then move across different underwriting divisions such as Cyber, Casualty, Energy, Nuclear, Political, Property and Reinsurance.

Through the Apprenticeship programme, you’ll work alongside underwriters to,

• Produce statistics, data, dashboards, and documents for effective management within your specialty area.
• Assist underwriters with various accounts, provide technical and administrative support, conduct statistical analysis, and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Create ad hoc reports, renewal lists, and analyse rates, aggregates, and premium projections.
• Assist with underwriting administration and provide support during onboarding and renewals.
• Understand and contribute to underwriting decisions using company criteria and pricing tools.
• Prepare and administer renewals and new business processes.
• Contribute to client satisfaction, retention, and profitability.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders.

Why Chaucer

We empower you to excel. Our people are a team of leaders. Experts in their fields, top performers – who collaborate, without hierarchy. Together we’ve created an exciting and . successful business, and we know that it’s our people who define and drive this success. That’s why the growth, development and wellbeing of our employees is so important to us. We work hard to make sure careers at Chaucer are challenging, inspiring and rewarding and that the environment is ambitious and supportive.

Location: London, at our offices in the Scalpel building in the heart of the city. We offer hybrid working, with a mix of office and home days that works for you and the team.

What we offer:

£27,000 plus qualification rewards

£500 signing on bonus to help you get ready to start

26 days holiday plus option to buy or sell to meet your needs

18-month fixed term contract with the opportunity to apply for permanent roles at the end

Excellent benefits including private medical insurance, pension, season ticket loan and flexible benefits including an allowance of £175 per month to put towards benefits of your choice from Tech products, gym membership, cycle to work, to giving to charity.

You also get 2 CSR days where you get the opportunity to make a real difference to local communities and charities that matter to you.

Your Development – You’ll get

– Challenging, stretching and rewarding work right from the start in each area of our Risk teams

– Our full support and guidance to achieve your Level 3 Insurance Practitioner apprenticeship which incorporates the CERTCII qualification.

– A structured development plan to support your professional and soft skills development

– An in-house experienced buddy and mentor, to help show you the ropes and support you on your journey

– lots of opportunities to get involved in groups outside of your day to day work to grow your network, learn from others and give back to the community through our CSR initiatives.

After the programme

At the end of the programme you will have the opportunity to apply for a permanent role in one of our teams that interests you.

Is our Apprentice programme for you?

• Comfortable with numbers?
• Enjoy analysing data and problem solving?
• Have an eye for detail?
• Enjoy working collaboratively and building strong relationships?
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If this sounds like you, and you want to continuously learn and go the extra mile this is the programme for you.

What you need

– An unrestricted right to work in the UK

– Be a current resident in the UK and have lived in the UK for 3 years

– Able to commute to central London

– Not hold a higher qualification in the same or similar subject

– 3 or more A-Levels or equivalent (A-C)

– GCSE in Maths and English – grade 4 (C) or equivalent

– IT skills, including Microsoft Excel

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to build a career in Insurance?

Delivering the promise to our clients that should things go wrong, we will be there to help make Claims at the forefront of everything we do at Chaucer. As a leading speciality insurance and reinsurance group we find a way to protect business activities across the globe. Our Claims team work in partnership with our underwriting teams to provide a truly outstanding service.

Our 18-month rotational programme offers the chance to work in every area of the claims management process, from initial notification of the potential insurance claim from a policy holder, through investigation of the size of the loss, to final payment of the claim.

Our proven approach will provide you with an in-depth understanding of how we manage claims in the specialty insurance market as well as opportunities to develop a broad network

Location: London, at our offices in the Scalpel building in the heart of the city. We offer hybrid working, with a mix of office and home days that works for you and the team.

What we offer:

• £27,000 plus qualification rewards
• £500 signing on bonus to help you get ready to start
• 26 days holiday plus option to buy or sell to meet your needs
• 18-month fixed term contract with the opportunity to apply for permanent roles at the end
• Excellent benefits including private medical insurance, pension, season ticket loan and flexible benefits including an allowance of £175 per month to put towards benefits of your choice from Tech products, gym memberships, cycle to work, to giving to charity.
• You also get 2 CSR days where you get the opportunity to make a real difference to local communities and charities that matter to you.

Your Development – You’ll get

– Challenging, stretching and rewarding work right from the start

– Our full support and guidance to achieve your Level 3 Insurance Practitioner – claims apprenticeship which incorporates the CertCII qualification.

– A personalised development plan to support your professional and soft skills development

– An in-house experienced buddy and mentor, to help show you the ropes and support you on your journey

– lots of opportunities to get involved in groups outside of your day to day work to grow your network, learn from others and give back to the community through our CSR initiatives.

After the programme

At the end of the programme, you will have the opportunity to apply for a permanent role in one of our teams that interests you and if successful we will continue to develop you and support your qualifications towards the full ACII.

Is our Apprentice programme for you?

• Enjoy analysing data and problem solving?
• Are you able to communicate the complicated in a simple way?
• Have an eye for detail?
• Enjoy working collaboratively and building strong relationships?

If this sounds like you, and you want to continuously learn and go the extra mile this is the programme for you.

What you need

– An unrestricted right to work in the UK

– Be a current resident in the UK and have lived in the UK for 3 years

– Able to commute to central London

– Not hold a higher qualification in the same or similar subject

– 3 or more A-Levels or equivalent (A-C)

– GCSE in Maths and English – grade 4 (C) or equivalent

– IT skills, including Microsoft Excel

The role: Associate Client Advisor / Trainee Insurance Advisor

• We recruit for potential and not industry experience, we are seeking individuals who aspire to be leading contributors to our business and who can embrace the opportunity to complete our apprenticeship funded training programme and attain chartered insurance qualifications
• This is a superb opportunity to launch an insurance career within a sustainable and exciting industry that provides aspirational individuals the platform for a long term insurance career
• As a Associate Client Advisor in one of our energetic customer focussed teams, and once you have received initial training and support, you will be responsible for servicing a dedicated portfolio of clients, this can involve managing renewals, invoicing, producing new quotes, upselling/cross selling additional products whilst handling any additional queries that are presented

What can you expect?

• Our Enterprise businesses operate from modern, fit for future offices with easy access via car or public transport routes
• This is a permanent, full time role
• You will commence your employment on our 18 month apprenticeship programme, on completion of this you will become a Client Advisor
• Potential future progression within the company, developing your role with continued support for advanced industry professional qualifications
• An unrivalled accelerated foundation to your career with a global leader in insurance broking and risk management

We will count on you to:

• Provide excellent client service on all aspects of account management to our clients, ensuring client needs are identified and met in line with agreed service standards
• Speak with clients on a day-to-day basis via telephony and email platforms
• Utilise insurance broking systems on a daily basis
• Manage a portfolio of clients, understanding their needs and provide suitable products and solutions to mitigate their risk
• Ensure timely completion of all set tasks ensuring client satisfaction at all times
• Demonstrate your adaptability skills when required in order to support colleagues in completing business critical tasks
• Develop meaningful working relationships with our insurer partners through regular contact and liaison to better serve our clients
• Through training, coaching and mentoring have a thorough understanding of all major classes of insurance that we offer our clients and keep abreast of new technical and product developments

What you need to have:

• Previous experience within a client/customer facing role, this can be gained from within a similar role or working in environments such as (but not limited to) retail, hospitality, food & beverage etc
• Excellent customer service skills
• Right to Work in the UK or Republic of Ireland (no visa sponsorship provided)
• Minimum 5 GCSE’s at Grades 9 – 4 (including English & Maths)

What makes you stand out:

• Have completed A-Levels (or equivalent)
• University degree educated
• Team player with a willingness to share ideas, knowledge and experiences
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and pride in maintaining a high standard of work
• Keen interest to work in a diverse and collaborative environment
• Good attention to detail
• Ability to multitask and prioritise responsibilities
• Ability to work independently

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

What can you expect?

• The opportunity to join a growing and highly successful team working with some of the UK’s largest and best known companies on bespoke and complex insurance arrangements including global programs
• A team that strive to deliver best practice, market leading service and solutions with a focus on client service excellence
• To build and maintain an excellent rapport with our clients, providers and colleagues across Marsh
• Excellent training and development with the ongoing career opportunities

We will count on you to

• Complete Insurance Practitioner qualifications, achieving accreditation from the Chartered Insurance Institute
• Support Marsh Client Executives regarding placement strategy for insurance renewals and administer mid-term changes to risk
• Request and review underwriting information on behalf of corporate clients and understand their requirements
• Prepare and submit accurate market presentations and slips in consultation with the Client Executives and the Placement Team
• Utilise Marsh online trading systems to collate and negotiate renewal terms with existing and prospective insurers
• Collaborate with Client Executives and Placement Teams to prepare client renewal reports
• Produce and/or request insurer documentation
• Review and comment on Indemnity and Insurance clauses

What you need to have

• A-Level qualifications (or equivalent) or have completed higher education
• Right to Work in the UK or Republic of Ireland (no visa sponsorship provided)

What makes you stand out

• Holds a university degree (or equivalent qualification)
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in teams and cultivate relationships
• A strong ambition to build a career with the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser

Why join our team

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

What can you expect?

• 8 week paid internship starting in late June 2026.
• Challenging and rewarding programme where you will be working on real projects and gaining exposure to industry experts within the organisation.
• A great mix of learning and hands on experience within the team you will be working in.
• Provides penultimate year university students with a strong foundation to their career.
• Successful interns will be offered a place on the 2027 Graduate Programme.

Roles will vary depended on business area but the typical areas we recruit into are:

• Broking- you may be working within a reinsurance broking team to understand all the risks associated with a particular sector and then working with the team to broker a deal.

• Global Analytics & Advisory – you will work with our Catastrophe Modellers and Actuaries to gain an understanding of analysis and valuation of risks. You’ll then be able to advise on the best course of action for client risk management and work with the broking teams to make this happen.

We will count on you to:

• Language and coding skills are also desirable (for some areas of the business) but not essential.

What you need to have:

• Must be in your penultimate year of study (graduating in 2027)
• Be expected to achieve a minimum 2.1 degree classification or equivalent.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Join Starr, a global leader in commercial insurance with over a century of expertise. We empower our employees to innovate, make impactful decisions, and build lasting client relationships worldwide. At Starr, you’ll work in an entrepreneurial culture alongside accessible leaders, leveraging our financial strength and vast industry experience to deliver solutions for our clients, no matter how complex. Grow your career with a rapidly growing company that invests in its people and their ability to drive real progress.

Role Purpose

To support the Financial Lines Underwriting divisions through defined administrative responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Enter risk and policy data in to the Underwriting system(s) within the defined Service Level Agreements.
• Undertake peer-to-peer quality assurance checks within the defined Service Level Agreements.
• Ensure all risk and policy queries are communicated through the appropriate channels and responded to in a timely manner.
• Process unmatched USMs within the defined Service Level Agreements and escalate any issues through the appropriate channels.
• Ensure all tasks are completed for month-end close.
• Assist with credit control and provide support to the credit control team with aged debt and excess cash queries when required.
• Attend team, departmental and divisional meetings to build, and maintain, internal relationships and continue understanding of the business.
• Scan and store all documentation in to the document management storage folders as required.
• Ensure that Underwriting files are complete and accurate. Obtain any outstanding items from the underwriting team.
• Assist with, and drive forward, company projects as required.
• Assist with the training of new team members and act as a Subject Matter Expert as requested by the management team.
• Undertake other appropriate ad-hoc tasks as requested by the management team.
• Maintaining business logs and renewal pipeline spreadsheets.
• Assist with peer review
• Ensure PBQA/CC is complete
• Assist with collating information for binder/lineslip renewals
• Assist FL Portfolio analyst as required
• Responsibilities are all internal focused, UWAs will be required to deal with brokers and external third parties. Thinking aged debt, chasing brokers for missing file documents, etc.
• Assist with internal and external audits
• Ad hoc reporting as required
• Report any suspicion of financial crime to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer immediately.
• Operate within the Company’s standards for Treating Customers Fairly.
• Manage any potential conflicts of interest to avoid disrepute to the company’s integrity.
• Advise Compliance of any complaints immediately.

Experience:

This is the perfect opportunity for a candidate with 6 months’ – 1 years office experience or a recent graduate or a well qualified school leaver. The ideal candidate will be highly numerate, have a strong work ethic, high attention to detail, excellent IT and analytical skills and possess the drive to advance their career within the Insurance sector.

Position Summary:

The Ryan Specialty Underwriting Internship Program is a hands‑on, immersive summer experience working within one of 6 designated underwriting teams in our London operation. Our program provides interns with meaningful exposure to the specialty insurance industry while developing professional skills through real‑world projects, networking opportunities, and mentorship.

The programme will start on Monday the 28th of June and will run for 8 weeks until Friday the 21st of August and you must be available for this period should you wish to apply. Successful interns will be offered a permanent role within our business for the Summer of 2027 as part of our first graduate cohort.

Applications will close on Monday the 6th April, with final assessment centres taking place in the week of the 26th April.

Location:

London – UK – Fenchurch

What will your job entail?

The Opportunity:

The Summer Internship is a fantastic way to gain valuable insight into our global insurance organisation. This is an 8 week programme designed to provide you with an opportunity to learn about the business through on the job experience.

The internship programme will also support you in developing a range of skills that will be helpful to begin your career. Throughout the placement you will be able to undertake important work and projects, bring new ideas and give a fresh perspective to the business.

The internship is made up of three elements; on the job training, a summer intern project and professional skills training:

On the job training

• Mini projects within the team

• Support the business in managing increased workloads

• Job shadowing

• Bring a fresh perspective to solve problems

Summer intern project

Alongside work experience running a small project is a great way to develop skills such as:

• Project management

• Problem solving

• Collaboration 

Professional skills training 

• Underpinned by the Markel Competency Model and each training session is aligned to a competency

• Blend of virtual classrooms (courses) and online content (Workday Learning)

What you’ll be doing:

Working with qualified lawyers in the legal team ranging from NQs to General Counsel, assisting on all manner of legal and legal-adjacent tasks. Our clients are our colleagues across the International division of Markel. We are a small team with a big and varied workload which includes:

• advising on strategic projects such as acquisitions, new products, large disputes;

• working on day-to-day queries related to contracts, data protection, underwriting and claims, marketing;

• being curious about new legal developments that might impact our colleagues and industry, and finding ways to mitigate or harness their effects;

• developing methods to work more efficiently using technology and AI, training the business and ourselves.

In some companies we might be described as ‘internal legal’, or the ‘in-house legal team’ and are not to be confused with separate Markel teams including Risk, Compliance and Markel Law.

You will:

• shadow lawyers in the legal team, joining them in meetings where they advise the business;

• conduct legal research using a variety of tools (including AI platforms, such as Harvey);

• assist lawyers in preparing first drafts of legal advice, reports and summarising legal news items;

• become a valued member of the team, attending team meetings and socials, and keep in touch when you move onto your next adventure – our past interns have gone onto training contracts at top city firms and we love to hear about how they are thriving.

You will be based out of our London office. To ensure that you have the best experience, you will be required to be in the office four days per week, with work from home (optional) on a Friday.

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll get support every step of the way – we know that starting out in a new role and industry can be daunting but Markel’s ego-free environment gives you all the support that you need to go further and achieve great things.

• We are committed to your career – there are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

• A genuine culture of camaraderie – at Markel, our shared values aren’t buzzwords. We really mean what we say in the Markel Style, and walk the talk, every day.

• Enjoy your free coffee as you admire 360 degree views of London from our office on the 27th floor of the Walkie Talkie building!

• Be part of our growing early careers community – through 121 buddy support, socials and other events you will have every opportunity to network and build great relationships with your peers both inside and outside of Markel.

Our must-haves:

Markel are looking for candidates who:

• Are collaborative, love building relationships, bring out the best in others, make our culture the stuff of envy.

• Recognise the vital role our work plays in the world and are passionate about playing their part, in any way they can.

• Are always looking for ways to innovate and improve what we do.

• Are proactive and committed to making a meaningful difference every day.

• Penultimate year university student working towards a degree (in any discipline but a law degree would be preferable), with a minimum 2:2 classification.

• Proven eligibility to work in in the UK.

• Basic skills in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Are you ready to play your part?