Research Fellow
Bioversity International
- Nairobi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Contribute to capacity building and research efforts around financial climate risk management strategies such as index insurance for climate resilience of smallholder farmers.
- Contribute to impact assessments and evaluation of index insurance’s role in climate adaptation, climate resilience and effectiveness as a financial instrument for DRR and Loss and Damage.
- Support the design of programs and projects for the scale-up of uptake and use of index-insurance and micro-credit at a Macro (government sovereign coverage), Meso (Institutional, Bank portfolio coverage) and Micro level (Individual, association, community coverage)
- Support resource mobilization for the implementation of research innovations on climate risk adaptation.
- Support the development of training programs on financial climate risk management strategies, savings, credit, insurance for smallholder farmers.
- Contribute to the development of research on the impact of adaptation strategies such as bundling index insurance with financial and non-financial products (Credit, Savings, agro-advisories, farming inputs etc)
- Support in research on strategies for the integration of climate risk insurance for loss and damage and efficient use of loss and damage fund deployment through risk transfer.
- Contribute to the research on the integration of climate risk insurance as a mechanism for disaster risk financing and forecast-based finance.
- Lead the desk research component of understanding the types of farmers facing agribusinesses that could benefit from improved targeting and risk management data and models.
- Lead the targeting and risk modeling efforts with agribusiness collaborators.
- Co-coordinate efforts to understand willingness to pay for our data product among agribusinesses.
- PhD or a Master’s degree in Economics, Applied/Agricultural Economics, or a related social science field, preferably with a concentration in Development, Agricultural or Behavioral Economics and with expertise in impact evaluation and/or applied micro econometric.
- Experience in conducting empirical field research in developing countries.
- Track record of implementing collaborative research with multi-disciplinary researchers.
- Proactive and reliable, with experience coordinating teams and managing a variety of tasks.
- Research interests aligned with the broad areas covered by CGIAR research (desirable).
- A good understanding of agricultural insurance, agricultural risk management, and CSA.
- Experience in games and gamification in the agricultural context.
- Experience in developing farmer training manuals, and farmers training.
- Strong programming skills in STATA or R including experience with data analysis and econometrics.
- Agricultural risk assessment and analysis.
- Project management and coordination.
- Excellent oral and written English.
- Experience in designing casual impact evaluations and solid understanding of causal inference and measurement challenges in applied micro-econometrics.