What are the responsibilities and job description for the Training and Development Specialist position at Kinsale Insurance?
Kinsale Insurance is an excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance company located in Richmond, VA. We offer solutions for high-risk and complex property, casualty, and professional accounts that cannot find insurance in the standard market.
Kinsale is seeking a Training and Development Specialist who is creative and well-organized. Are you a current Underwriter or Claims professional in the Excess and Surplus Insurance industry and want to pivot into training? This is your time to take that skill set and work with over 300 underwriters in facilitating and creating cutting edge content. Your knowledge of coverage forms, experience assessing and analyzing submissions, pricing risks, and more will help you develop and maintain existing training courses and materials along with leading and facilitating professional training for employee development.
Responsibilities
- Create and manage informative, and engaging content for new and existing training courses
- Lead and facilitate professional training for employee development
- Evaluate training data and feedback to identify new training needs and propose recommendations using various tools such as Excel, Survey Monkey and AI
- Analyze and assess training data and feedback to identifying change needs to existing training and metrics
- Collaborate with IT, Underwriting, Claims and Operations on requirements gathering for course development
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Risk Management & Insurance, or related field
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in Excess & Surplus insurance industry is required
- Experience designing, facilitating, or developing training, learning, or education programs preferred
- Excellent oral and written communications skills.
- PC literacy, with emphasis on Outlook, Word, and Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Planner.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- A team-oriented and entrepreneurial spirit
- Curiosity and exploration with innovative technologies to enhance the training process
- Ability to evaluate training effectiveness
- Adept with a variety of multimedia training platforms and methods
- Familiarity with adult learning theories is preferable
- Strong presentation skills
- Excellent oral and written communications skills to all levels of employees and management
- Detail-oriented, well-organized, and effective time management skills
- Takes initiative, having the ability to work independently and proactively
- Willingness to continue pursuing your own training, learning, and development
Kinsale offers…
- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus opportunities
- Single and family health, dental, and vision insurance plans with a generous percentage of maximum HSA funds contributed by the company
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance
- Matching 401(k), fully vested from first day of contribution
- Generous paid time off and holidays
- Yearly reimbursement for educational training and development opportunities
- Promotion from within the company with clear goals and developed career paths
