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Underwriter - Eldoret Branch
First Assurance Kenya
Job at a glance
- Employer
- First Assurance Kenya
- Position
- Underwriter - Eldoret Branch
- Location
- Eldoret, Kenya
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 1+ years in underwriting
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Business/Commerce
- Salary
- Not stated in the advert
- Application deadline
- 16 October 2026
- Posted on VacancyKE
- 12 October 2026
VacancyKE summary
First Assurance Kenya is hiring an Underwriter for its Eldoret branch to support the Underwriting Manager. You will assist in evaluating risks, processing policy documents, and handling customer inquiries while adhering to underwriting guidelines.
What stands out about this opportunity
- Based in Eldoret
- Operational support role within Underwriting Department
- Involves issuing specific certificates like yellow cards
Key responsibilities
- Attend to customers' and intermediaries' questions
- Process policy documents for new businesses
- Issue endorsements including renewals, additions, and deletions
- Invite and dispatch renewal notices; follow up on renewals
- Issue motor certificates, marine certificates, and yellow cards
- Reconcile clients' accounts within the department
- Assist in processing loss ratio reports and reviewing account performance
- Provide required documents to the claims department within prescribed TATs
Who should apply?
This role suits early-career insurance professionals with a relevant business degree and some underwriting experience who want to develop their technical skills in a branch setting.
Key requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business/Commerce
- 1+ year underwriting experience
- Progress in Insurance Professional Qualification
- Ability to process policy documents
What you should know
- Role is based at the Eldoret Branch
- Applications are submitted via Absa Bank Kenya's careers portal
- Ensure adherence to debt management guidelines and retention strategies
How to apply
- Apply through the provided link on the Absa careers site using reference R-15991898-1
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The employer’s advert
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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
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Job Summary
To support the Underwriting Manager by providing operational support in the Underwriting Department processes. To assist evaluate and accept risk as per the set underwriting guidelines and provide support to the underwriters.
Job Description
• Attend to customers and intermediaries’ questions.
• Reconciliation of clients’ accounts department.
• Follow up on renewals.
• Processing policy documents for the new businesses
• Invite and dispatch renewal notices.
• Issue endorsements. i.e renewal, additions, and deletions.
• Issue motor certificates, marine certificates, and yellow cards
• Assist to Process Loss ratio reports and review accounts performance.
• Assist claims department by providing the required documents and details within the prescribed TATs.
• Ensure retention of existing accounts
• Adhere to the debt management guidelines.
Education and Experience Required:
• Bachelor of Commerce (Insurance Option) degree, or a related business degree, from a reputable university.
• At least one year experience in a busy underwriting department
• Progress in Insurance Professional Qualification
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
My Career Development Portal : Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.
Job Summary
To support the Underwriting Manager by providing operational support in the Underwriting Department processes. To assist evaluate and accept risk as per the set underwriting guidelines and provide support to the underwriters.
Job Description
• Attend to customers and intermediaries’ questions.
• Reconciliation of clients’ accounts department.
• Follow up on renewals.
• Processing policy documents for the new businesses
• Invite and dispatch renewal notices.
• Issue endorsements. i.e renewal, additions, and deletions.
• Issue motor certificates, marine certificates, and yellow cards
• Assist to Process Loss ratio reports and review accounts performance.
• Assist claims department by providing the required documents and details within the prescribed TATs.
• Ensure retention of existing accounts
• Adhere to the debt management guidelines.
Education and Experience Required:
• Bachelor of Commerce (Insurance Option) degree, or a related business degree, from a reputable university.
• At least one year experience in a busy underwriting department
• Progress in Insurance Professional Qualification
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)