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.