Country: Indonesia
Closing date: 21 Oct 2018
The ILO's Social Finance Programme is welcoming applications for the Fellowship Programme. The application deadline is October 21, 2018. For this fellowship opportunity we are looking for candidates who are fluent in Bahasa Indonesia.
The Fellowship Programme encourages professionals with substantial experience in the insurance and/or microfinance industry to use their expertise to effectively provide insurance/microfinance services to low-income households and emerging customers.
Each fellow will be placed with a host (financial institution such as bank, microfinance institution, credit cooperative etc.) in Jakarta for 18 months, to support an innovation project. The project will focus on the implementation of an integrated risk-management solution for lowincome households and/or small enterprises. The main objective is to test risk-management solutions that combine savings, credit, insurance, and risk prevention to improve customers’ ability to manage risk by leveraging the potential of technology to scale the innovations quickly.
The Fellow’s main responsibility will be to support project management, provide technical support for product development and extract meaningful lessons. Description of duties and expected outputs The fellow will be responsible for supporting the project and to the extent possible assist in other projects to develop solutions for emerging customers. Specific duties include, but are not limited to the following:
- Managing overall project between ILO and the host.
- Conducting market study to understand needs and identify opportunities
- Supporting the host through the product development life cycle
- Exploring partnerships with players like insurers and fintechs or insuretechs
- Executing the ILO’s change management framework to drive change internally
- Conducting business analysis and other relevant research on the ongoing basis to respond to learning agenda questions
- Documenting lessons related to learning agenda
How to apply:
Fellowship applicants are kindly requested to submit their CVs along with a cover letter emphasizing they commitment and specific experience related to this fellowship description. The terms of reference can be found here and the application form here. Applications should be received by October 21, 2018 (midnight CEST). Applications received after this date will not be considered.