Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Agriculture Assistant Underwriter
Job Holder
Reporting To: Underwriting& Reinsurance Manager
Division/Department Underwriting G.I
Level Role Size K
1. Job Purpose
Assess and determine risk acceptance terms for agriculture to ensure that quality business is accepted and retained. Support the claims adjustment process.

2. Principal Accountabilities.
• Carry out risk surveys and prepare reports on potential business to better understand risks.
• Promote and sensitize the crop and livestock insurance product to the entire agriculture sector through field days, exhibitions, media, trade fares, farm visits.
• To acquire and develop agriculture business.
• Engage with re-insurers to develop/refine agricultural insurance products that suit the needs of the local market to grow this line of business.
• Assess, manage, and rate risks to ensure the company accepts and retains quality business.
• Provide expert advice during claims adjustment process, including crop surveys at the time of loss.
• Carry out inspections of the crops during planting, mid-season, and pre-harvest to track crop condition as well as loss if any.
• Ensure timely and accurate agriculture quotations and follow up.
• Ensure accuracy of renewal notice and timely dispatch and maintain a monthly report.
• Respond to correspondence, queries, and complaints for efficient service delivery.
• Train and sensitize staff, intermediaries, and other stakeholders in the agricultural industry to create awareness.
• Ensure that renewals for agriculture business are done in a timely manner to enhance customer retention.
• Ensure that Underwriting files are well documented, and all communications and transactions are recorded.
• Monitor performance matrix of different SLAs.
• Provide training to the team and intermediaries if required.
• Work with supervisor/seniors to ensure process improvement.
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of underwriting data.
• Carry out to satisfaction any other activities tasks given by the Management

3. Dimensions
Unit Measures And Impact:
• Financial Measures And Impact: Department target (As per yearly set targets) billion
Value of Assets In charge:
Budget: Expense budget – As per yearly set targets
Revenue budget – As per yearly set targets
People Impact And Numbers:
Direct Reports:
Indirect Reports:

4. Relationships
Reporting To: Underwriting& Reinsurance Manager
Reporting To Job Holder:
N/A

Other Contacts:
Within The Company:
• All
Outside The Company:
• Clients
• Brokers
• Agents
• Other insurance companies
• Service providers
• Media houses

5. Knowledge And Experience.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Agriculture, Animal production, Veterinary Medicine or related field
- Good communication skills Marketing &Customer relations
- Organized and self-driven person who can work with minimal supervision who will be able to work on his/her own initiative
- Experience:
- Minimum of 3 years

6. Skills And Competencies.
• Good communication and negotiating skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Thorough understanding of policy covers/wordings and their interpretation as pertaining to claims

7. Job Challenges.
• Sourcing because penetration levels are low, and the environment is not conducive
8. Delegated Freedom To Act & Management Content
• Fairly high freedom to decide, within policy
9. Environment

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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