Senior Associate - Agricultural Insurance
What does the Busara Center do?
Busara implements research for organizations around the world, ranging from qualitative in-depth studies to lab experiments to large-scale randomized control trials. In addition, Busara’s advisory arm works with governments, non-profit organizations and private sector enterprises on improving their policies and products: Through incorporating insights from behavioral economics, we help organizations understand decision-making and enable them and the people they serve to make better and more informed choices.
Role summary
The insurance portfolio contributes to building resilience in low-income communities and underserved segments by crafting innovative insurance solutions rooted in deep behavioral insights. In the short term, we are focused on agriculture and health insurance, to proactively tackle the most urgent impacts of climate change.
The Senior Associate role heavily relies on our team's expertise in understanding the agriculture markets and private sector landscape in East Africa, as well as our knowledge of the funding ecosystem. This knowledge will be critical to successfully execute Busara's projects in the insurance portfolio, particularly those we will focus on in the next two years.
Role Purpose Statement:
The Senior Associate supports both the advisory and research arms of Busara by leading the execution of Busara projects. While the role will mainly involve research and advisory in insurance, they may be expected to contribute to other portfolios.
As the primary project manager and technical lead for all external Busara projects, a Senior Associate quickly gains an expert understanding of the project, challenges, relationships, and research questions and uses best practices and tools, both within and outside Busara to execute to the highest degree, with careful consideration of timelines and budget. They view research problems with a behavioural lens and have good intuition about potential barriers and levers, while drawing on problem-specific and general behavioral science knowledge.
The Senior Associate works directly with clients and partners and takes ownership of the overall project and its end products. The Senior Associate directly manages and effectively coordinates other project staff that work on their project as well as liaise with other Busara teams. This includes strong upward management skills to engage the Project Division’s vice presidents on substantive components of the project.
The Senior Associate works closely with Busara leaders and directly with researchers, clients and partners to perform a variety of tasks including, but not limited to:
Busara implements research for organizations around the world, ranging from qualitative in-depth studies to lab experiments to large-scale randomized control trials. In addition, Busara’s advisory arm works with governments, non-profit organizations and private sector enterprises on improving their policies and products: Through incorporating insights from behavioral economics, we help organizations understand decision-making and enable them and the people they serve to make better and more informed choices.
Role summary
The insurance portfolio contributes to building resilience in low-income communities and underserved segments by crafting innovative insurance solutions rooted in deep behavioral insights. In the short term, we are focused on agriculture and health insurance, to proactively tackle the most urgent impacts of climate change.
The Senior Associate role heavily relies on our team's expertise in understanding the agriculture markets and private sector landscape in East Africa, as well as our knowledge of the funding ecosystem. This knowledge will be critical to successfully execute Busara's projects in the insurance portfolio, particularly those we will focus on in the next two years.
Role Purpose Statement:
The Senior Associate supports both the advisory and research arms of Busara by leading the execution of Busara projects. While the role will mainly involve research and advisory in insurance, they may be expected to contribute to other portfolios.
As the primary project manager and technical lead for all external Busara projects, a Senior Associate quickly gains an expert understanding of the project, challenges, relationships, and research questions and uses best practices and tools, both within and outside Busara to execute to the highest degree, with careful consideration of timelines and budget. They view research problems with a behavioural lens and have good intuition about potential barriers and levers, while drawing on problem-specific and general behavioral science knowledge.
The Senior Associate works directly with clients and partners and takes ownership of the overall project and its end products. The Senior Associate directly manages and effectively coordinates other project staff that work on their project as well as liaise with other Busara teams. This includes strong upward management skills to engage the Project Division’s vice presidents on substantive components of the project.
The Senior Associate works closely with Busara leaders and directly with researchers, clients and partners to perform a variety of tasks including, but not limited to: