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Environmental Intern (Summer 2025)

Great American Insurance Group
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Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

Great American's Environmental Division offers an exclusive focus on environmental insurance solutions to a wide variety of commercial customers. The core products and services enable businesses to effectively and efficiently manage risks that can threaten their financial security. The Division offers a complete portfolio of environmental insurance products, including contractor's and fixed premises pollution liability insurance products.

Our Environmental Division is currently seeking an Intern to join the Communications team. The internship is based in our downtown, Cincinnati Office.

The Communications team supports the division and its underwriters by providing timely, relevant and convenient marketing and communication resources for their current brokers/agents while also helping them grow their book of business.

Job Description

  • The program includes a combination of activities, aimed at giving the intern a full understanding of the Environmental Division. Activities may include:
  • Job shadowing
  • Reading assignments and case studies on various topics
  • Learn and perform functions related to communications support (technology and tools)
  • Research supporting information for the underwriting team via various systems
  • Assisting with tasks that support the underwriting process
  • Work closely with experienced marketers to learn customer service skills and standards

The Environmental intern will support the marketing team as outlined below:

  • Assist with various business development initiatives including:
    • Relationship Management: Salesforce system management and reporting
    • Events and Conferences: venue research, manage booking reservations for any upcoming broker meetings or events
    • Manage divisional calendars of events on various platforms
    • Research potential industry awards and events
    • Support planning for industry conferences and divisionally-hosted events
  • Contribute to various marketing and branding related initiatives including:
    • Content creation and management: compile monthly social posts and draft distribution emails, contribute to newsletter articles, podcast script writing
    • Research technical topics for potential articles and presentations
    • Analysis: Industry trends and competitive intelligence research
    • Assist in management of SharePoint site pages
  • Perform other duties as assigned:
    • Attend various divisional meetings to observe/learn market intel and insights
    • Prepare meeting minutes as needed; Creating status reports on work efforts
    • Preparing documentation for quick cards and other help tools
    • Tracking and analysis of key marketing metrics
    • Opportunity to meet with various senior managers throughout internship
    • Various administrative tasks

Job Requirements

  • Ability to work 40 hours a week in the summer
    • Potential for internship to continue remote or hybrid, part-time in fall and spring semesters
  • Education: Actively pursuing a bachelor’s degree;
    • Field of Study: Insurance and Risk Management, Business, Marketing, Chemistry, Biology or Geology
  • Strong analytical and communication skills, a high comfort level with technology, an understanding of the insurance industry and have a desire to learn on the job.
    • Must have strong organizational skills as one works with different areas of Marketing, other departments and third-party vendors to coordinate efforts and manage the production and distribution of content and products.
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and intermediate Excel skills.  
  • Desired but not a requirement:
    • Experience in providing strategic and analytical support through data mining, competitive intelligence, surveys, statistical analysis and other qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
    • Experience in Salesforce, social media analytics tools, Tableau, etc. is a plus