Research Officer II: Actuary
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
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
Method of application
If you are interested and qualified, kindly submit your application via the link provided below,
Deadline Jun 2, 2026