Agriculture Insurance Data Developer

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ECA Agri-Finance Project

Position of Agriculture Insurance Data Developer

The IFC Agri-Finance Project would like to increase access to finance to agriculture.  To do so, the Project works on facilitating financial intermediaries to lend to agriculture with legislative and regulatory reform, advisory services to understand agriculture and how to more efficiently lend to the agriculture sector.  In addition, the Project focuses on the risks facing agriculture through the establishment and development of agriculture insurance.  In this role, the Project can work with Government and legislators/regulators to improve the laws, regulations and sector oversight to foster the proper and robust development of agriculture insurance.  The Project will also work with the private sector to develop and advance new and useful insurance products to foster lending and overall growth of the agriculture.

SCOPE OF WORK

• Develop and clean a file of data prepared for rating purposes (output is data file in excel or other database format to be determined in consultation with project experts);
• Analyze the data for trends and statistical tests in yields, hectares planted, and other characteristics (output is a series of tables and graphics developed in consultation with project experts);
• Consolidation of data and programming for rating purposes with the use of actuary calculations (output is the organization of the data file in excel or other database format);
• Illustrate the data with summary statistics and graphs (output are summaries and graphs developed in consultation with project experts);
• Develop a system by which the data can be illustrated spatially on GIS software (output is pilot linking of data to GIS maps currently available);
• Develop software so that the data can be easily analyzed/formatted, suitable for export to standard statistical packages (such as SAS, Shazaam, R, SQL, etc.) (output is the data export routines linked to the database file);
• Develop the system by which the new data can be added to existed databases (develop the software and online products which collect the data and import into databases);
• Conduct actuarial sound calculations;
• Preparing the output summary documentation which describe and summaries all actuary calculations;
• Developing the financial models, cash flows for insurance companies and pools;
• Develop the products (software and online products) which help to “sell” the new agri-insurance programs;
• To provide training, coaching, and consultations primarily to private sector insurance and reinsurance firms but also other stakeholder representatives as needed;
• To support designing modern insurance programs with all needed elements to support new product development and offering; provide individual consultations to project stakeholders where needed to understand their position or to work out compromises and agreement;
• Assist the project manager in any other duties as required.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

The successful applicant will have:
• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience (database development and management)
• An advanced degree in University degree in finance or IT/technical sciences
• Knowledge and experience working with digital data collection, processing, and analysis 
• Good statistics & finance skills
• Training in actuarial sound calculations
• At least 5 years of experience in data management for actuarial and/or premium rating purposes;
• Understanding of the agriculture and insurance sector, its legal framework and major stakeholders;
• Excellent training, coaching, and presentation skills,
• Excellent written and spoken Azerbaijani and English language;
• Advanced user of office software and knowledge of desktop publishing software.

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE AND DELIVERABLES

• The Consultant will work offsite and onsite as per a mutually agreed work plan.
• Start of the contract period: January 15, 2017; End of the period: June 30, 2017.
• Contract may be renewed annually subject to work requirements.

Please submit your CV and cover letter to “Business Opportunities” section at https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org/wbgec/index.html (Selection #: 1232775) till COB December 14, 2016. Only applications submitted online will be considered for the position.

Please contact Lamiya Huseynova at [email protected] in case of any questions.