The board
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- San Antonio Home Office I
- Posted
- Sep 22
As a Life and Health Underwriting Intern, you will work under direct supervision, adhering to risk and compliance procedures. You will perform routine work assignments and problem resolution to support team members.
Within defined guidelines and framework, underwrites individual life insurance applicants according to established guidelines for the issuance of Life policies, while meeting the departmental time service standards. Determines whether to accept, modify, or decline a risk through evaluation of an individual's medical history or physical condition, occupational hazards, financial background, insurable interest and other information pertinent to the decision.
Our internship program encourages you to showcase your skills, while gaining real-life experience that’ll help you jump-start your career.
What you'd do
- Lead continuous process improvement efforts: Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate business processes to identify and implement improvements.
- Manage and enhance business processes: Plan and coordinate activities for moderately complex processes, from problem definition and requirements evaluation to design, testing, and implementation.
- Ensure alignment with the overall experience strategy and vision.
- Develop and maintain operational effectiveness: Proactively identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness by implementing and monitoring processes and performance standards.
- Partner with the Policy Team to create new underwriting policies and procedures.
- Align business deliverables with needs: Apply foundational knowledge of the business to assist in aligning deliverable processes and capabilities with business needs.
- Mitigate operational and compliance risks: Identify, own, execute, and enhance controls to mitigate operational and compliance risks within your assigned processes.
- Monitor process performance: Plan and coordinate the overall health of processes by developing control limits and monitoring key performance indicators.
- Support communication and reporting: Assist with the development of communication plans for customers and internal stakeholders.
- Create reporting that clearly demonstrates process performance, identifies trends, and proposes recommendations for enhancements.
- Facilitate application and process changes: Support the execution of new and modified applications and processes to provide new or improved capabilities, products, or services.
- Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program or higher in fields such as Risk/Insurance, Data Analytics, Data Science, Industrial Engineering, AI/Computer Science, or Nursing. Graduation date cannot be prior to August 13, 2027.
- Demonstrated interest in the insurance industry, specifically life and health underwriting.
- Starts
- 2026-09-22