Online Learning and Development Intern (Fall 2024)

Job Family

Administrative Services

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Internships are short-term work experiences for a designated period of time that allow college students the opportunity to observe and participate in the professional work environment, to explore how his/her interests relate to possible careers, and to gain practical experience in an industry relating to their field of study.

Job Description

Application Instructions: Please include a link to your portfolio or at least 3 samples of your relevant instructional design work.

Working Environment & Program Dates:

• Full-time hours: Candidates must be able to work ~ 40 hours/week during the 16 week fall internship program (mid-August to mid-December)
• Depending on business needs and performance, there may be an opportunity to extend into additional full-time internships beyond the fall 2024 semester.
• Remote work environment

What You Will Do:

You will focus on curating content from our content library and various existing resources to construct courses/curriculums related to organizational culture, leadership competencies, and other enterprise-wide learning topics as assigned. You will provide a unique and valued perspective as a fresh set of eyes, identifying alternate approaches to modern learning experiences. The projects assigned are moderately complex and require collaborative development with subject matter experts in various areas of our business and the Learning and Development team.

What You Will Learn:

You will be working with and supported by a team of ambitious and engaged learning professionals who will support you in bringing your fresh ideas and diverse perspectives to shake up the status quo and stay on the forefront of learning and training methodologies.  You will learn what it means to work for a company that focuses on business results and engagement as it relates to learning and development, helping us to transform and grow our business to maintain Transamerica’s reputation as an industry leader.

What Success Looks Like:

• Be a fresh perspective to identify process improvements and or revisions for existing courses.
• Curate eLearning courses and materials using educational technologies and leading development best practices.
• Share your experience with emerging technologies that can be applied today.
• Interact with subject matter experts to identify, curate, and develop content for eLearning courses.
• Adapt existing instructor led workshops (materials, job aids, etc.) to meet learning needs for an online learning approach.  Work with in