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**Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company (GTL)** is currently seeking a **Temporary Jr. Underwriter** to join our team! **The anticipated duration of the role would be through the end of September 2026.** Since 1936, GTL has offered cutting-edge insurance solutions and personalized service for our policyholders and distributors, while supporting personal growth and civic involvement from our employees. We’re seeking candidates who are looking for meaningful work, who want to invest in their growth, and contribute to a company built on timeless virtues and best business practices. This position is required to work on-site in our Chicagoland (Glenview, IL) office. We offer half-day Fridays – every Friday! This individual will be part of an underwriting team focused on making sound decisions in helping achieve GTL’s growth and profitability goals while providing exemplary service to our agents and policyholders. The key responsibility for this role is to analyze applications for health and life insurance by following established underwriting protocols and guidelines to ensure consistency with sound risk management principles. **Key Responsibilities:** - Learn the underwriting processes associated with various GTL products and gain familiarity with the underwriting tools commonly employed. - Assess applications to ensure information provided is complete and correct. - Analyze information associated with each application to assess acceptability of risk in accordance with company protocols and guidelines. Request additional underwriting information as appropriate. - Act promptly while exercising sound, objective and consistent judgment in making underwriting decisions. - Provide support and communications, written and verbal, to sales and customer service personnel to keep them updated on application status. - Comply with insurance regulations as they relate to risk classification. - Treat underwriting information with the utmost confidentiality and use it solely for the purposes of evaluating and classifying the risk. **Education and Skills:** - Two or more years of relevant or transferrable experience, associate degree or higher is a plus - Ability to work well within a team and efficiently manage multiple priorities - Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills, critical thinking - Capacity for assimilating multiple sources of information and succeeding in a fast-paced setting - Underwriting experience or familiarity with medical terminology is a plus - Pay range for this role is $27-33 per hour, commensurate with experience The pay range provided is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects potential pay for the job grade for this role at the time of this posting. Compensation will depend on several factors such as specific competencies, relevant education and experience, qualifications, and industry certifications. Compensation ranges are subject to change and may be higher or lower than the range described above. Provided eligibility requirements are met employees will be eligible for the following benefits: - Medical - Health Savings Account (including employer contribution) - Dental - Vision - Basic Life Insurance (full premium paid by employer) - Voluntary Employee, Spouse and Child Life Insurance - Short-Term and Long-Term Disability - Paid Holidays - Paid time off including vacation, personal days, and sick time - The amount of time off varies based on tenure and hours worked - 401(k) and Profit-Sharing retirement plan - The company matches contributions up to 2% provided the employee contributes a minimum of 3% - The company may make a discretionary contribution to the Profit-Sharing plan We invite you to learn more about Guarantee Trust Life by visiting our website: [www.gtlic.com](http://www.gtlic.com/) **Stay connected with GTL News Via:** **Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn:** [**https://twitter.com/GTLNews**](https://twitter.com/GTLNews) [**http://www.linkedin.com/company/guaranteetrustlife…
Salary estimate
$27 – $33/yr
Provided by the employer.
Skills for this role
SalesCommunication
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