Young Professionals Programme at Africa RE

Every year, successful candidates for the Young Professionals Programme will undergo a one-year training programme with a “stretch/learning assignment” built in, where they will gain valuable on-the-job experience. They will undergo an intensive 9 months’ on-line training on a specially designed package focusing on Reinsurance, Leadership and Management subjects. The training programme will be run in English and French.

Successful candidates will then be gathered for one week in Lagos or in another city where Africa Re has an office to conclude the training and for the graduation ceremony. During the one week face- to- face training, participants will be divided into teams.  Each team will be requested to present a paper of not more than 5 pages on how they expect to influence their respective organizations in the areas of training, knowledge and skills acquisition if they assume positions of authority.

The programme is expected to positively impact participants to:

• Understand the reinsurance industry and their future missions with regard to strong leadership, governance and accountability;
• Develop a constructive approach to competition in the African reinsurance markets by reducing some poor practices and approaches;
• Improve professionalism;
• Develop/improve internal operations processes (client servicing, claims handling, etc.);
• Contribute to market research and segmentation for low income clients, and develop products for the masses in order to increase insurance penetration;
• Contribute to the construction of reliable database of re/insurance market statistics.