Research Officer II: Actuary

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is seeking a Research Officer II: Actuary to lead the development of innovative insurance and financial products, especially focused on livestock systems.\n\n### Key Responsibilities\n\n#### Research for Development\n* Lead the development of innovative insurance and other financial products including bundled solutions for extensive, semi-intensive, and intensive livestock systems.\n* Generate timely index reports for the indexed financial products.\n* Lead and contribute to research on quality improvement of financial products, especially on product pricing and related tools.\n* Manage the data collection process and conduct advanced analysis of complex datasets using geospatial techniques.\n* Lead project report writing and co-author peer review publications.\n* Contribute to the project’s activities on related aspects/ themes under the guidance of the supervisor.\n\n#### Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement\n* Contribute towards strengthening existing partnerships and identifying new and innovative partnerships towards sharing and implementation of research findings with different stakeholders.\n* Contribute to the engagement with institutional stakeholders, including private sector actors and high-level government representatives to inform about climate risk financing.\n\n#### Capacity Development and Knowledge Management\n* In conjunction with the scientist, plan, survey and coordinate the materials and resources required to meet the research objectives of the group.\n* Collect, store and curate data generated from the analytics.\n* Review existing course of actions and support in the development of proposals, milestones and implementation of research.\n* Prepare and assure quality of project reports and papers for presentation.\n* Ensure timely delivery of geospatial products for projects as and when assigned.\n* Actively support resource mobilization activities by contributing to proposal writing and creating new opportunities.