Insurance & Risk Core Intern
Listed on 2026-10-14
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Insurance
Description
Position Summary:OVD Insurance offers paid internships to active students interested in careers within the insurance industry. OVD's summer internship program presents an exciting opportunity to gain insight into the realm of Commercial Insurance and Risk Management. Participants will benefit from comprehensive training, practical business experience, and the chance to network with leading experts and seasoned professionals in the industry. This program is designed to enhance the academic knowledge you have acquired in your studies, enabling you to apply your learning to real-world situations.
Additionally, the program includes educational workshops, presentations from senior leaders within the organization, and promotes collaboration, facilitating interactions with fellow insurance professionals and interns across various locations.
Location:Sewickley, PA
Here’s what you’ll do:- Sales:
- Attend first appointments and discovery meetings
- Learn how to prospect and build a pipeline
- Attend presentation meetings - new and renewal
- Experience what it means to establish yourself as a trusted advisor versus a "salesperson"
- Service:
- Day to day client management
- Exposure to operating systems and agency management systems
- Data analysis and application
- The claims process and claims advocacy
- Risk Management:
- Attend training in the field, this can include safety committee training, driver safety, OSHA recordkeeping, etc.
- Help with safety committee renewal tracking, update spreadsheet as needed, communicate with clients on renewal time frames and determine if assistance is needed
- Assist with researching inquiries from clients on a variety of topics
- Attend site visits/walkthroughs, this may be solely OVD or with a carrier partner
- Review carrier loss control recommendations and discuss potential resources for clients as well as response to carrier
- Technologies:
- Engage in the investigation of prospective new technologies for OVD, assess demonstrations, and perform comprehensive comparisons of companies offering these services, while also delivering an innovative viewpoint on the efficiency of automation processes and data entry tasks.
- Students should be currently enrolled in a higher education institution and entering their junior or senior year in college.
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administrations, Management, Insurance & Risk Management, Economics, Finance, or Safety preferred.
- Must be a current student through the duration of the intern program.
- Ability to type quickly and accurately on a keyboard (Required)
- Microsoft Office proficiency (Required)
- Able to work onsite for the duration of the internship
- Internship Date Availability:
May 17, 2027 - August 6, 2027 - Some travel to different states may be required by company expense.
- Drive. Ownership. Accountability. Passion.
- Extremely strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to translate "technical speak" in way that end users at all levels can understand.
- High energy work ethic with ability to work independently while maintaining excellent customer relationships.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others.
- Accuracy:
Achievement of correct and precise work. - Accountability:
Acceptance of responsibility and one's own actions. - Written Communication:
Ability to write letters, reports, articles, and e-mails using clear and concise vocabulary, style, grammar, and punctuation. - Customer Orientation: A desire to serve clients by focusing efforts on listening and responding effectively to customer questions, resolving customer problems to their satisfaction, and evaluating customer satisfaction.
- Problem Solving:
Ability to recognize courses of action which can be taken to handle…
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