Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent 

Location: Gloucester 

Job ref: 543656

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for two graduates to join our General Insurance Management Graduate Programme in our Gloucester office.

Our Graduate opportunity – Kick start your career in Insurance:

We are looking for ambitious and talented individuals who show the potential to develop into high performing business professionals. 

This opportunity is a two and a half year programme that provides exposure to all aspects of our General Insurance business, allowing you to develop your technical expertise as well as professional and operational management skills. We will work with you to enable you to reach your development goals and aspirations for your career at Ecclesiastical. In return, we expect you to bring the commitment and drive to add significant value to the company.

What will I be doing:

When you join Ecclesiastical Insurance, you will receive a tailored induction and will be assigned a business mentor and buddy to provide support throughout the programme. The unique scheme structure combines focused business placements in General Insurance with exposure to other business divisions, where you will be involved in the delivery of strategic business initiatives.

Towards the end of the programme, you will have an extended placement in a focused role within General Insurance that will draw upon your wider business awareness. The expectation is that on completion you will move into a business-critical role and use this as a ‘next step’ towards potentially becoming a leader or technical specialist in our business.

As part of this programme, you will receive training and full sponsorship to complete the ACll qualification, provided through the Chartered Insurance Institute.

What can I look forward to:

You can look forward to on the job learning with hands-on experience, a key part of this is working on live business projects to help you build your understanding of our core business and industry knowledge. You will have the opportunity to work with senior business leaders and have a network of previous graduates to connect with across the whole Group.

You will finish the scheme with strong industry knowledge and experience to start thinking about your long-term future in Ecclesiastical Insurance.

What skills and experience do I need to apply for the scheme:

• A track record of success in education, work experience, extra-curricular activities or volunteering
• Demonstrate where you have taken on extra responsibility or delivered in challenging circumstances
• An ability to work independently as well as in a team, with strong relationship building skills
• Highly effective communication (both written and verbal) with critical reasoning and analytical skills
• Desire to learn and apply learning in the workplace, showing your ability to pass the CII studies alongside a demanding work programme
• Able to demonstrate an alignment with our Group values and culture
• Effective planning and prioritisation skills, balancing multiple deliverables to a high standard
• Proficient IT skills in MS Office

What qualifications do I need to apply for the scheme:

At least a 2:1 degree (or equivalent), ideally in a discipline that demonstrates your analytical skills.

What is the application process:

Step 1: Online application – Use this as an opportunity to show why you would be good for the scheme and what you will bring to it

Step 2: Online Test – Demonstrating your ability to think critically

Step 3: Telephone Interview

Step 4: Group activity

Step 5: Face to face interview

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.