Job Description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester (hybrid)
Job Ref: 204241
About the role
Benefact Group are looking for a Trainee Risk Appraiser to join the Customer Hub Services Team based in our Gloucester office.
Risk Management has been at the heart of our specialist underwriting and customer proposition for almost a century and we have a reputation for market leading expertise in the Private Client, Education, Care, Charity, Faith and Real Estate sectors. We insure some of the UK's leading landmarks and most iconic locations and, as the largest insurer of Grade 1 listed buildings, our aim is to protect the irreplaceable, a truly privileged position helping to protect our fabulous built heritage!
You'll be working in a high performing team where you'll carry out desk-top risk management appraisals and surveys of customer premises in the Private Client and Faith Sectors to produce assessment, improvement and valuation reports to a highly professional standard.
As a trainee you'll receive comprehensive technical training and ongoing support with your development. This a thoroughly rewarding opportunity to make an impact within an organisation that gives all available profits to charities and good causes.
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 top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, 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

• Carrying out desk-top risk management appraisals and surveys of customer premises in the Private Client and Faith Sectors to produce assessment, improvement and valuation reports to a highly professional standard.
• Reviewing aerial imagery and collating data from a wide range of sources to analyse.
• Planning, prioritising and managing individual workloads to enable efficient delivery to agreed service standards.
• Take responsibility for building your own technical knowledge and professional expertise through development and implementation of a meaningful PDP that supports both self-development.
• Obtain your Diploma in Insurance and must make a commitment to work towards this qualification.

What you'll need to have

• Pro-active with desire to continuously improve.
• Competent IT and data skills (including Microsoft suite)
• Commitment to deliver exceptional service contributing both as an individual and as an effective part of a team
• Experience of managing and influencing internal and external stakeholders.
• The ability to build collaborative, productive relationships
• High levels of personal organisation and accuracy, with the ability to manage own workload

What makes you stand out

• Good appreciation of British architecture, design and building construction.
• Basic Knowledge of fire (and non-fire perils), theft, business interruption and liability insurance risk survey assessments.
• In depth insurance technical knowledge.
• Experience of the ability to analyse and produce relevant reports.

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

Hear from the hiring manager
"This is a unique opportunity to join the Benefact Group, as a Trainee Risk Appraiser - a role that blends technical development with meaningful impact. Based in Gloucester, you'll receive comprehensive training while contributing to the protection of the UK's most iconic and historic buildings. With a strong focus on professional growth, a supportive team environment, and the chance to work for an award-winning employer that donates all profits to charity, this role offers both purpose and progression in equal measure."
About us
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

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