Research Officer II: Actuary

Requirements

• Master’s degree in actuarial science, statistics, finance or other related discipline with at least 5 years’ relevant work experience on financial products development and application of remote sensing and GIS on agriculture/ natural resources.
  
• Advanced analytical techniques for the design of innovative indemnity, indexed, and hybrid financial products, especially related to pricing.
  
• Experience of statistical analysis and logical development of models.
  
• Experience with index calculation and reporting for indexed financial products.
  
• Experience with the geospatial analysis of remotely sensed datasets.
  
• Experience of working with multi spectral satellites.
  
• Proven knowledge of field data collection for geospatial analysis.
  
• Has good working knowledge of remote sensing and GIS software, Database and software such as Arc GIS, ENVI and e-Cognition.
  
• Substantial experience in scripting such as R/ Python and Google Earth Engine.
  
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English with the ability to communicate with diverse audiences.
  
• Proven ability to work in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams with minimal supervision, and experience working across disciplines and different cultural backgrounds.
  
• Willingness to travel frequently to rural and remote areas of project sites in different countries.
  
• Record of publications and experience with resource mobilization and contributing to project proposals would be an asset.
  
• Communication skills for peer reviewed publications
  
• Programmming skills using R/ Python/ Stata
  

• Research for Development
  • Lead the development of innovative insurance and other financial products including bundled solutions for extensive, semi-intensive, and intensive livestock systems.
    
  • Generate timely index reports for the indexed financial products.
    
  • Lead and contribute to research on quality improvement of financial products, especially on product pricing and related tools.
    
  • Manage the data collection process and conduct advanced analysis of complex datasets using geospatial techniques.
    
  • Lead project report writing and co-author peer review publications.
    
  • Contribute to the project’s activities on related aspects/ themes under the guidance of the supervisor.
    
• Partnerships and Stakeholder engagement
  • Contribute towards strengthening existing partnerships and identifying new and innovative partnerships towards sharing and implementation of research findings with different stakeholders.
    
  • Contribute to the engagement with institutional stakeholders, including private sector actors and high-level government representatives to inform about climate risk financing.
    
• Capacity Development and Knowledge Management
  • In conjunction with the scientist, plan, survey and coordinate the materials and resources. required to meet the research objectives of the group.
    
  • Collect, store and curate data generated from the analytics.
    
  • Review existing course of actions and support in the development of proposals, milestones and implementation of research.
    
  • Prepare and assure quality of project reports and papers for presentation.
    
  • Ensure timely delivery of geospatial products for projects as and when assigned.
    
  • Actively support resource mobilization activities by contributing to proposal writing and creating new opportunities.