Job Description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Closing date: 13th December 2025
About the role
Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for two graduates to join our 2026 General Insurance Management Graduate Programme in our Gloucester office.
Our Graduate Programme - What are we offering?
This opportunity is a two-and-a-half-year programme that provides exposure to all aspects of our General Insurance business, enabling you to build both technical and commercial expertise. We're committed to supporting your development and helping you achieve your career aspirations at Ecclesiastical Insurance. In return, we are seeking individuals who demonstrate dedication, ambition, and a genuine desire to contribute meaningfully to our business.
General Insurance - Our areas
At Ecclesiastical Insurance, our General Insurance teams protect what matters most across a wide range of sectors including specialist niches of Property Owners, Leisure, Education, Care, Charity, Heritage, Faith and Office Professions.
What to expect
Throughout the programme, you will gain hands on experience by working on live business projects that deepen your understanding of our core operations and the wider insurance industry. You will collaborate with senior leaders, learn from their expertise, and connect with a supportive network of past graduates across our group.
By the end of the scheme, you'll have the knowledge, experience, and confidence to start shaping your long-term future with Ecclesiastical Insurance.
What you'll be doing
When you join Ecclesiastical Insurance, you will receive a tailored induction and will be assigned both a business mentor and buddy to provide support throughout the programme. The schemes' structure combines focused business placements in General Insurance, 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 becoming a leader or technical specialist in our business.
As part of this programme, you'll get full training and study support to complete the ACII qualification - an Advanced Diploma in Insurance, a globally recognised professional qualification from the Charted Insurance Institute (CII) that provides an advanced understanding of insurance practice, market knowledge, and application skills.
What you'll need to have

• A minimum of a 2:1 degree
• Track record of success in education, work experience, extra-curricular activities or volunteering
• Able to demonstrate where you have taken on 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 study 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 we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Hybrid working

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous annual bonus scheme 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

What our graduates say
"The graduate programme has been really important in helping me build a firm foundation for my career. The supportive environment and the skills I gained have been instrumental to me in my current role and the opportunity to support Benefact Group in increasing donations to charities is a huge bonus. If you're looking for a place to grow, learn, and make a difference, I highly encourage you to apply" Laura Eccles, Claims Risk & Performance Manager.
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 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.
What is the application process?
Step 1: Online application - an opportunity to show your suitability for the programme and what you will bring to it
Step 2: Online General Ability Test - a cognitive ability assessment measuring numerical, inductive, and deductive reasoning skills
Step 3: Screening call
Step 4: Group assessment in our Gloucester office
Step 5: Face to face final stage interview
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

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