Risk Mitigation & Insurance Lead: USAID Resilient Economies and Sectors (RESET) Activity

WHO WE ARE

Come grow with us! If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial and inclusive, culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you.

At Resonance, you get involved in the work, in the field, not just in the deck. Our teams are autonomous and self-sufficient. You get to weigh in with founders and leaders on how to drive change and grow the movement while growing the company.

Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world’s toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets.

POSITION MANDATE

Resonance seeks a Risk Mitigation and Insurance Lead for the anticipated USAID Resilient Economies and Sectors (RESET) Activity. This project will work across the Eastern and Southern Caribbean (ESC) to reduce systemic constraints to climate and disaster finance, as well as increase investments in resilience across public and private institutions and priority sectors such as agriculture in order to reduce chronic vulnerability and facilitate inclusive growth. The Risk Mitigation and Insurance Lead will bear primary responsibility for technical oversight, planning, and implementation of insurance frameworks and developing and expanding access to new risk and insurance products.

This is a full-time position based in Barbados, serving up to 11 countries across the ESC, reporting to the Chief of Party.

OUTCOMES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Develop Disaster Risk Insurance assessments and financial framework for the program to implement across the public and private sector for each country, in compliance with USAID requirements, working closely with Chief of Party and the Resonance Home office
• Oversee design, preparation, and implementation of natural disaster risk assessments
• Manage public and private sector relationships to harmonize country insurance contexts for regional programming
• Ensure timely development and uptake of financial frameworks within region under Resonance policies, USAID regulations, and host-country’s legal policies.
• Provide tailored technical assistance provided to private insurance firms to develop and expand access to new risk and insurance products
• Lead public education campaigns on insurance and insurance products

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree in related field required
• Minimum 7 years of professional and directly relevant experience
• Strong experience in international disaster risk policy, supporting large complex multi-million-dollar donor programs.
• Extensive experience in natural disaster damage and risk assessments, private sector engagement, and other project operations and management areas.
• Work experience in disaster risk quantification extending to the public sector, re/insurance industry
• Proven track record of working collaboratively with various stakeholders
• Well organized, able to work independently, skilled in handling multiple complex tasks, able to adhere to deadlines
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, including ability to develop and communicate a common vision and foster collaboration across an interdisciplinary team
• Strong interpersonal, writing, and oral presentation skills in English

PREFERRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Experience providing parametric insurance products that provide coverage for hurricanes (tropical cyclones) and earthquakes
• Demonstrated background ensuring compliance on large complex donor funded programs and current knowledge of USAID rules and regulations preferred
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Previous experience in the Caribbean region preferred.

TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS

The employee must be able to travel domestically and/or internationally and up to 40% for work assignments.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This position operates in a professional office environment, and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

As a part of the responsibilities for this job, the employee is required to communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, and exchange information orally and in writing with others. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position, sitting at a desk for prolonged periods, move or traverse inside the office and facilities; operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, place, detect, or position computers and other office equipment, such as a calculator, copy machine, furniture, and computer printer. The employee must be able to make substantial repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and fingers. The employee must be able to lift and move up to 15lbs at times.

AAP/EEO STATEMENT

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation) parental status, genetic information (including family medical history) political affiliation, military service, age, veteran status, disability, or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. Consistent with these obligations, Resonance also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices.

Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on any of the above-mentioned characteristics.

We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls or emails please.