As one of the leading writers of Federal Crop Insurance, AgriSompo North America combines industry experience, resources, capital and talent to deliver both traditional and innovative crop insurance and productivity tools to farmers, ranchers, insurers and agribusinesses in the United States. Our organization operates within a culture rooted in ethics, integrity and a belief that accountability, collaboration and agility are crucial to long-term success.

AgriSompo North America is a part of AgriSompo, Sompo International's global agriculture platform. This platform is an integrated underwriting, technology and distribution platform delivering innovate insurance and reinsurance solutions to agriculture partners worldwide. Sompo International, AgriSompo's parent company, is a global organization driven by its core values, a carrier that holds promise, trust and the commitment to protect. Through operating subsidiaries, Sompo International writes agriculture, casualty and other specialty, professional lines, property, marine/energy and aviation lines of insurance and catastrophe, property, casualty, professional lines and specialty lines of reinsurance.

As a leading provider of crop insurance and other agricultural risk management tools, we recognize that our success is derived directly from those whose contributions matter most: our people. AgriSompo North America has major offices in Lenexa, Kansas and Des Moines, Iowa as well as regional offices around the country. A shared commitment to integrity, accountability, collaboration and agility define our culture, and we strive to create exceptional value for our clients and shareholders and maintain AgriSompo North America as a desirable place to work.

Job Description

Position Summary

AgriSompo North America provides renowned, cutting-edge analytics to address risk and the risk exposures of each of its product lines. Through a deep-rooted commitment to customer service, AgriSompo North America is positioned to make a long-lasting impact on this nation's farmers and ranchers for generations to come.

The Continuing Education Specialist helps to ensure that agents and adjusters doing business with AgriSompo North America receive proper State and Federal continuing education credit when participating in ASNA trainings. This ensures that these individuals are able to remain properly licensed and appointed to sell and service crop insurance policies, or to work crop insurance claims.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive nor imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent in this job. Some incumbents may not perform all the duties listed or may perform related duties as assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Collaborate with the applicable team members to offer a seamless continuing education experience.
• Coordinate with the Training Department, Marketing Staff, and Meetings Teams to schedule and process each meeting held under AgriSompo's CE Providership
• Perform various tasks relating to continuing education procedures, at a state level, including, but not limited to new course and instructor submissions and scheduling course offerings for all courses to ensure deadlines are met.
• Perform various reporting responsibilities, as determined by the Continuing Education Manager
• Monitors and tracks state renewal requirements for continuing education Providership, courses, and instructors.
• Develop and provide training sign-in sheets, while ensuring that the content meets all state requirements.
• Maintain accurate attendance records for each course.
• Responsible for entering course attendance information electronically within each state's defined timeframe to ensure licensees are awarded proper credit for course participation.
• Prepare and distribute continuing education certificates of completion to each student attendee within each state's required timeframe.
• Entry of all internal training completions in applicable systems
• Training document management in applicable systems
• Partner with the Training Department to facilitate the processing of all virtual trainings, either taken via live webinar, or through the Saba online learning system
• Proctor Basic Competency Exams upon request and/or partner with the Training Department to facilitate the processing of exams taken electronically through the Saba online learning system
• Assist the Continuing Education Manager with developing, maintaining, and implementing CE processes.
• Monitor all federal crop insurance continuing education requirements as specified in the Standard Re-Insurance Agreement (SRA)
• Monitor state continuing education requirements.
• Perform other duties as directed.
• Provide exceptional internal and external customer experiences.
• Maintain confidentiality in all matters.

Position Requirements

Education

Required - High school diploma or equivalent or equivalent work experience.

Experience

Preferred - Previous experience in insurance.

Preferred - Previous experience in continuing education programming.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Polished professional with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong knowledge of general business and corporate cultures
• Advanced skills in Outlook and other MS Office programs (Excel, Word, OneNote)
• Must be highly organized with strong attention to details.
• Excellent time management; able to effectively prioritize.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, adapting to unexpected events, responding well to change.
• Proactive with ability to juggle multiple responsibilities and reprioritize tasks based on new information or shifting deadlines.
• Exemplary demonstrated work ethic and pro-active, 'can do' approach.
• Ability to learn quickly and take on new responsibilities.
• Must have excellent judgment, independent thinker and resourceful.
• Self-starter with excellent anticipation skills; problem solving; follow up.
• Ability to handle highly sensitive, confidential, and non-routine information.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills; comfortable working with people at all organizational levels and able to adapt to diverse perspectives and styles; contribute to a team environment.

Physical Requirements & Work Conditions

Physical Demands & Requirements

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Ability to stand or sit constantly/continuously.

Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and extensive reading.

Environmental Conditions

The work environment described here are meant to be representative of those an employee would normally encounter while performing the essential functions of this job.

The physical environment requires the employee to work both inside and outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions.

This description reflects the assignment of essential functions and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job. Nothing in this job description restricts the organization's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation and training.

Travel required up to 5%.

Salary Range: $40,000 - $55,000 Actual compensation for this role will depend on several factors including the cost of living associated with your work location, your qualifications, skills, competencies, and relevant experience.

At Sompo, we recognize that the talent, skills, and commitment of our employees drive our success. This is why we offer competitive, high-quality compensation and benefit programs to eligible employees.

Our compensation program is built on a foundation that promotes a pay-for-performance culture, resulting in higher incentive awards, on average, when the Company does well and lower incentive awards when the Company underperforms. The total compensation opportunity for all regular, full-time employees is a combination of base salary and incentives that gets adjusted upfront based on overall Company performance with final awards based on individual performance.

We continuously evaluate and update our benefit programs to ensure that our plans remain competitive and meet the needs of our employees and their dependents. Below is a summary of our current comprehensive U.S. benefit programs:

• Two medical plans to choose from, including a Traditional PPO & a Consumer Driven Health Plan with a Health Savings account providing a competitive employer contribution
• Pharmacy benefits with mail order options
• Dental benefits including orthodontia benefits for adults and children
• Vision benefits
• Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Company-paid Life & AD&D benefits, including the option to purchase Supplemental life coverage for employee, spouse & children
• Company-paid Disability benefits with very competitive salary continuation payments
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with competitive employer contributions
• Competitive paid-time-off programs, including company-paid holidays
• Competitive Parental Leave Benefits & Adoption Assistance program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tax-Free Commuter Benefit
• Tuition Reimbursement & Professional Qualification benefits

In today's world, what do we stand for?

Ethics and integrity are the foundation of delivering on our commitment to you. We believe that core values drive success, and that when relationships are held in the highest regard, there is nothing that cannot be accomplished. At Sompo, our ring is more than a logo, it is a symbol of our promise. Click here to learn more about life at Sompo.

Sompo is an equal opportunity employer and we intentionally value inclusion and diversity. Above all, we want you to work in an environment that respects everyone's unique contributions - we are passionately committed to equal opportunities. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex orientation, national origin, or age.