Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Brighton

Job Ref: 204810

About the role

Ansvar, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Technical Underwriting Specialist to join our Brighton office.

In this role, you’ll help ensure our underwriting activities operate within a robust and effective control framework. You’ll provide timely technical referrals to support our wider teams and play a key part in maintaining high-quality underwriting standards through audits, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

Support the business in delivering business plan and achieving target underwriting quality and standards in line with underwriting strategy through:

• Acting as a specialist referral point and coach, dealing with complex referrals from the Underwriting Operations team and providing real time coaching and feedback to support the development of technical knowledge and capability within the underwriting function

• Contribute to the implementation and maintenance of underwriting guides and audit recommendations, supporting the business unit in ensuring that standards are met and technical expertise cascaded, meeting defined levels of service (SLAs)

• Conduct high quality internal and delegated authority audits in line with plan and SLAs, and contribute to the continuous improvement of underwriting standards

• Act as a quality and development representative for UW, liaising with all areas of the business and escalating risks as required

• Working in partnership with Underwriting Operations to enable underwriting of quality business within appetite and individual underwriting licence

• Understanding and operating within regulatory framework including, audit and DA management and identifying and escalating any risks to the business

• Undertaking Underwriting Development projects

What you'll need to have

• Cert CII. Dip CII preferred, or working towards

• Detailed knowledge of general insurance principles

• Solid understanding of the regulatory framework

• Experience identifying and escalating risk.

• An analytical approach with high levels of attention to detail.

• Clear and concise written communication with experience of submitting balanced and well considered recommendations.

• Coaching skills, with ambition and capability to develop these further

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Hybrid working

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 6% and 24%

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme

• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance

• £200 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

Hear from the hiring manager

"We're a collaborative, high performing team where your technical expertise truly shapes outcomes. You'll play a pivotal role in guiding colleagues, strengthening our underwriting discipline, and driving continuous improvement across the business. If you enjoy being the go-to expert and influencing real, measurable quality in the business, this is a place where your impact will be felt every day."

About us

Ansvar specialise in insurance to the third sector. We cover thousands of risks in the UK, and unlike other insurers, our products are specifically designed for the niches we insure.

Driven by our values of empathy, professionalism and trust, we hold a genuine desire to positively impact the communities we help protect.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. 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.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26