Actuarial Leadership Development Program Intern

Jobtailor; Connecticut; On-site; USD 24,796 - 35,817; Full time

Job summary

Travelers offers an Actuarial Leadership Development Program (ALDP) internship designed to attract self-motivated individuals pursuing actuarial careers. You will gain exposure to professional actuarial work and planned activities that provide business insight and career options.

As part of the internship, you may collaborate with fellow interns to develop and present solutions and participate in company events such as the Intern Symposium and community outreach. Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or greater.
• Completion of 1 or more Actuarial exams.
• Strong ownership and responsibility for actions and outcomes.
• Analytical and critical thinking to identify problems and opportunities.
• Ability to adapt to ambiguity and maintain performance under change.
• Customer focus and service excellence to internal or external clients.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Sound judgment and decision making.

Responsibilities

• Engage in challenging actuarial work experiences with planned activities.
• Gain insight into business and actuarial career options at Travelers.
• Collaborate with interns to develop and present actuarial solutions.
• Participate in company events and network with leadership.

Job description

Overview

• The goal of the Actuarial Leadership Development Program (ALDP) internship is to attract and develop self‑motivated individuals who are highly skilled and passionate about a career in actuarial while providing a foundation for future success within the organization.
• As an ALDP intern, you will be exposed to a challenging actuarial professional work experience with planned activities giving you insight into business and the many actuarial career options at Travelers.
• With many company‑wide events such as Intern Symposium and community outreach events, you will have the opportunity to interact and network with many levels of leadership and management.
• You may have an opportunity to work together with fellow interns to develop and present solutions to relevant business and actuarial topics.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or greater
• Completion of 1 or more Actuarial exams
• Accountability: Strong track record of taking ownership and responsibility for actions and outcomes, performance, and results.
• Analytical and Critical Thinking: Demonstrated aptitude in identifying current or future problems or opportunities, analyzing data, synthesizing and comparing information to understand issues, identifying cause/effect relationships and exploring alternative solutions to support sound decision making.
• Change Management/Resilience: Ability to remain energized and focused in the face of ambiguity, change or strenuous demands.
• Customer Focus: Proven customer service skills with the ability to provide service excellence to internal or external clients.
• Emotional Intelligence: Demonstrated track record of self and social awareness, empathy and balances confidence with humility.
• Interpersonal: Excellent communication skills with the ability to actively engage with others while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Judgment/Decision Making: Capability of exercising sound judgment, making decisions and committing to a position.
• Learning agility: Demonstrates an aptitude for learning and applying new capabilities in actuarial and analytics.
• Leveraging Differences: Proven capacity to work with and include people from different backgrounds, experiences, cultures, races, etc. and view those differences as assets to be leveraged to accomplish business goals and objectives.
• Relationship Management: Strong relationship management skills including the ability to seek out, build, foster and maintain productive relationships, networks or alliances to meet goals and achieve results.
• Teamwork: Ability to work together in situations when actions are interdependent, and a team is mutually responsible to produce a result.
• Technical curiosity: Self‑starter and motivated to explore new technologies, applications and environments beyond required job and/or educational commitments.
• Work Ethic: Possession of a strong drive to do what it takes to get the job done; inquisitive and demonstrates a strong willingness to learn.
• Obtained or pursuing a Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Actuarial Science, Computer Science or business‑related bachelor’s or master’s degree required.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future.