Insurance Instructor Gold Coast Schools a Colibri Group company (South Florida) LOVE TRUST JOY BOLDNESS TEAMWORK ABOUT COLIBRI GROUP Colibri provides learning solutions to help individuals obtain professional licensure, maintain their standing with continuing education and upskill through professional development to be the best in their fields. Through a collection of brands, we serve over 1,000,000 professionals each year within the Real Estate, Healthcare, Financial Services and Appraisal industries, among others. Our learning products give working professionals a competitive edge by combining up-to-date information, practical, on-the-job application and online accessibility. Position Overview: Gold Coast is always looking to add top-quality part-time and full-time instructors to our team of dedicated professionals. Over the past 50 years, Gold Coast has become one of the area's largest and most prestigious licensing schools. Our main goal is to improve lives, one person at a time. It is an honor and a privilege to be the provider of choice for so many students in Florida. Gold Coast offers various schedules for pre-license and continuing education courses in English and Spanish throughout their Florida locations. We are seeking experienced Life, Health & Variable (2-15) and Property & Casualty [General Lines] (2-20) instructors to conduct Pre-Licensing and continuing education training in our South Florida campuses. Candidates will be considered for day, evening, and weekend sessions. Insurance instructors are ambassadors for both Gold Coast and the insurance industry, as most learners' first introduction to the business is through their instructor's experienced eyes. Instructors must be dynamic, positive, and encouraging to learners. Instructors teach insurance-related subjects at the post-secondary/college level to high school graduates and teach advanced continuing education subjects to learners who have obtained their license and are required to complete additional education. Our current team of insurance instructors average more than ten years' experience teaching at Gold Coast. We are looking for professionals with extensive insurance knowledge, who care about people, and have the ability to explain complex concepts excitingly and engagingly. (No one likes a boring instructor.) We have a diverse student base that includes people of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures. We entrust our instructors to spend more time with our students than anyone else in our organization. Consequently, we focus on only placing the "best" teachers in our classrooms. If you meet the above qualifications, and teaching is your passion, please apply. Job Responsibilities:- To provide instruction to candidates of the required Florida Pre-Licensing Course for Life, Health, and Annuity Courses (2-15) and/or General Lines (2-20).
- Teaching, present lectures, and conduct discussions to increase students' knowledge and competence, utilizing visual aids such as electronic audio-visual equipment, whiteboards, graphs, charts, diagrams, etc.
- Prepare reports and maintain records such as student grades, attendance rolls, and training activity details in compliance with state laws and school policies.
- Observe and evaluate students' work to determine progress, provide feedback, and make suggestions for improvement.
- Administer oral, written, or performance tests to measure progress and to evaluate training effectiveness.
- Enforce school policies and state regulations.
- Promote other Gold Coast programs and products to Gold Coast students.
Experience and Education:- Instructors must meet and maintain all Florida DFS instructor requirements, as outlined in FAC 69B-227 & FAC 69B-228 instructor requirements.
- At least five years of significant insurance industry experience.
- Significant knowledge and understanding of Florida insurance laws and industry practices.
- An insurance designation (CIC, CPCU, CLU) (preferred, but not mandatory).
- Significant teaching experience (does not have to be insurance education).
- Acceptable candidates will be asked to demonstrate, via an audition, an excerpt from the Florida DFS Insurance pre-licensing material.
Skills:- Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
- Speaking – Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Reading Comprehension – Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Active Listening – Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Active Learning – Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Learning Strategies – Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Service Orientation – Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Mathematics – Using mathematics to solve problems and teach insurance math concepts and problems to students.
- Operation and Control – Controlling the operations of audio-visual presentation equipment, classroom tidiness and security, etc.
Attributes:- Oral Expression – The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Speech Clarity – The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Oral Comprehension – The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Written Comprehension – The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression – The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity and Solving – The ability to tell when something is wrong or to anticipate when something is likely to go wrong, coupled with solving problems efficiently.
- Deductive Reasoning – The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Bi-Lingual in Spanish and English a plus.
Physical Requirements:Ability to maintain a high energy level and conduct a dynamic presentation for extended periods, often exceeding 10 hours per day.
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