Insurance Products - Summer Student

Alberta Financial Services Corporation; Canada; Remote; CAD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Summer Student to join their Product Innovation Team. In this role, you'll gain valuable experience in research design, product development, and data analysis while supporting the development of insurance products for Alberta's agriculture sector. This position offers a unique opportunity to learn about risk management and the delivery of Business Risk Management programming. Collaborate with creative co-workers and contribute to meaningful projects that impact the agricultural community. If you're self-motivated and eager to learn, this role is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• Ability to produce results in a work from home environment.
• High level of competency with MS Office tools.

Responsibilities

• Support team members with workload relief and project collaboration.
• Conduct research and communicate results effectively.

Skills

Self-motivation

Creativity

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Excellent communication

Analytical Skills

Research Skills

Quantitative analysis

Qualitative analysis

Education

Currently enrolled in a relevant program

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Outlook

MS PowerPoint

Job description

Posted Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM

At AFSC, we care about each other, about Alberta and about agriculture. PEOPLE ARE OUR FOUNDATION. We want to work with talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. We strive to create a psychologically safe environment where we can all be ourselves and perform to the best of our abilities. CLIENTS ARE OUR FOCUS. The perseverance and hard work we see from our clients inspires us to show that same work ethic in everything that we do. EXCELLENCE IS OUR ASPIRATION. We are innovative, knowledgeable, and diverse and love what Albertan agriculture produces for people around the world. Working together, we grow and sustain the agriculture industry in Alberta.

This position's term is May 1, 2025 to August 29, 2025 and location is flexible, within Alberta, dependent on the successful applicant.

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, extract and enter data, write and communicate results and other product related functions.

What will your growth opportunities look like in this role?

• Gain skills in research design and execution, innovation, product development, data analysis, vendor management, networking, market research, working on a team to achieve corporate goals and other skills in areas of interest to the individual.
• 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.

What will you be responsible for?

• Support other team members via workload relief and partnering with them 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.
• Communicate work to the organization by helping the team write up project results, create proposals, and communications to branch staff and other written and oral communications.
• Other as organizational and personal development priorities unfold.

What are we looking for from you?

• 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 with the purpose of determining emerging trends affecting our clients.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. E.g. ability to create written materials and presentations in a style that recognizes the audience.
• Analytical Skills like critical thinking and data manipulation and analysis.
• Research Skills – ability to answer a research question in a defendable way and taking a project from start to finish.
• It is critical that this position is comfortable interacting with AFSC staff across the organization.
• Working on teams in a collaborative environment.
• Represent AFSC well when liaising with vendors and other external parties (e.g. clients, tech companies, etc.).
• 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 are highly valuable in the role.

About AFSC

For over 80 years Agriculture Financial Services (AFSC) has provided Alberta's agricultural producers and agribusinesses with loans, crop insurance and farm income disaster assistance. At AFSC, we’re proud of the work we do to help build a strong, growing and diversified agriculture and agri-food industry in Alberta. Many AFSC team members are also producers and know first-hand the challenges and rewards Alberta producers face.