Explore a variety of careers in insurance with EMC! By participating in our paid intern program, you’ll develop industry-related knowledge, enhance skills that are transferable to any professional setting and do meaningful work to help achieve our goals. Your daily responsibilities, special projects and activities will provide both structured and unstructured opportunities to help you learn and grow as a professional. When you network with executives, connect with a mentor, explore other departments and volunteer in the community, you’ll see your impact at EMC on a larger level. Plus, successful interns are invited to apply for regular full-time positions. Join us at EMC! You’re going to love it here—you can count on it.
Essential Functions:
- Summer 2027 paid internship working in Strategic Analytics at EMC Insurance
- Under close supervision, builds data science solutions.
- Gathers structured and/or unstructured data to create a modeling dataset, including cleaning and pre-processing data.
- Performs exploratory data analysis to ensure the data is fit for purpose, discovers and identifies existing relationships, patterns, and trends within the data, and shares results with supervisor for review.
- Learns EMC and departmental culture, structure, and functions across branches
- Researches and makes recommendations on at least one emerging technology or innovation
- Develops understanding of insurance operations, ratemaking, statistical analysis, data management and computer programming
Education & Experience:
- Data science, actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, or finance major
- Completion of junior year preferred
- Interest in property casualty insurance career
- Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical ability
- Strong organizational skills
- Sound decision-making and problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Good computer skills
Our employment practices are in accordance with the laws that prohibit discrimination due to race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, active military status, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.
All of our locations are tobacco free including in company vehicles.
Skills Required
- Major in data science, actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, or finance
- Completion of junior year
- Interest in a property and casualty insurance career
- Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical ability
- Strong organizational skills
- Sound decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Good computer skills
What We Do
EMC Insurance Companies is among the top 60 insurance organizations in the country based on net written premium, and we have more than 2,500 employees. The company was organized in 1911 to write workers’ compensation protection in Iowa. Today, EMC provides property and casualty insurance products and services throughout the United States and writes reinsurance contracts worldwide. Operating under the trade name EMC Insurance Companies, Employers Mutual Casualty Company and one or more of its affiliated companies is licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
