Company Description
Created in 2007, PlaNet Guarantee is the subsidiary of PlaNet Finance Group dedicated to the promotion and the development of microinsurance.
PlaNet Guarantee is a social business, which aims at being a link between low income populations and insurers and reinsurers.
The final goal is to develop a range of microinsurance products, as diversified as possible, and tailored to needs, as well as to implement microinsurance programs within MFIs and other distribution channels by operating know-how transfers.
To achieve its objective, PlaNet Guarantee builds strong partnerships between the different stakeholders of microinsurance: operator, insurers, reinsurers, microfinance institutions and other microinsurance delivery channels, technical solutions providers, etc.
These partnerships are essential as they bring in together the core expertise necessary to achieve PlaNet Guarantee’s primary goal: to provide sustainable and affordable microinsurance protection to low-income populations worldwide.
PlaNet Guarantee organises its operations along two axes: Research & Development and Brokerage Activities. Research and Development: each context is specific, with an absolute need for a tailor-made solution.
We work on elaborating innovative risk management tools, which respond to the specificities of each market. Once these tools are put in place, PlaNet Guarantee ensures the sustainability of the scheme through its brokerage activities. Brokerage Activities: as a broker, PlaNet Guarantee acts as an intermediary between insurance companies and final clients by managing the microinsurance scheme.
Project Description
In the framework of its activities, PlaNet Guarantee is implementing a feasibility study on index-based crop insurance in Kenya. Index-based crop insurance is gaining attention as an important tool to help cope with climate risks that small-scale farmers face. Insurance is paid when the threshold defined by the index is reached.
Thus, the index functions in a systematic way and avoids problems of fraud and high costs linked to claim settlements and these costs savings can be transferred to the farmers in the form of lower premiums.
The index can either be based on the climate (weather stations or satellite data) or on the average yield. The index’s advantage lies in the fact that it is objective, easy to check and transparent.
PlaNet Guarantee proposes to conduct the following activities:
Created in 2007, PlaNet Guarantee is the subsidiary of PlaNet Finance Group dedicated to the promotion and the development of microinsurance.
PlaNet Guarantee is a social business, which aims at being a link between low income populations and insurers and reinsurers.
The final goal is to develop a range of microinsurance products, as diversified as possible, and tailored to needs, as well as to implement microinsurance programs within MFIs and other distribution channels by operating know-how transfers.
To achieve its objective, PlaNet Guarantee builds strong partnerships between the different stakeholders of microinsurance: operator, insurers, reinsurers, microfinance institutions and other microinsurance delivery channels, technical solutions providers, etc.
These partnerships are essential as they bring in together the core expertise necessary to achieve PlaNet Guarantee’s primary goal: to provide sustainable and affordable microinsurance protection to low-income populations worldwide.
PlaNet Guarantee organises its operations along two axes: Research & Development and Brokerage Activities. Research and Development: each context is specific, with an absolute need for a tailor-made solution.
We work on elaborating innovative risk management tools, which respond to the specificities of each market. Once these tools are put in place, PlaNet Guarantee ensures the sustainability of the scheme through its brokerage activities. Brokerage Activities: as a broker, PlaNet Guarantee acts as an intermediary between insurance companies and final clients by managing the microinsurance scheme.
Project Description
In the framework of its activities, PlaNet Guarantee is implementing a feasibility study on index-based crop insurance in Kenya. Index-based crop insurance is gaining attention as an important tool to help cope with climate risks that small-scale farmers face. Insurance is paid when the threshold defined by the index is reached.
Thus, the index functions in a systematic way and avoids problems of fraud and high costs linked to claim settlements and these costs savings can be transferred to the farmers in the form of lower premiums.
The index can either be based on the climate (weather stations or satellite data) or on the average yield. The index’s advantage lies in the fact that it is objective, easy to check and transparent.
PlaNet Guarantee proposes to conduct the following activities:
- Determine the feasibility of index-based crop insurance in the Kenyan context
- Build the index and the product
- Test the commercial viability of the product
The Project will aim at reaching the following specific objectives:
- Possibility to build a crop insurance index
- Determine the typology of the demand
- Determine appropriate distribution channels
- Estimate the price, policy and guarantees of the product
- Analyze the regulatory framework
- Conduct a pilote to adjust the product
Job Description
In order to carry out the project’s activities a local coordinator is needed to:
In order to carry out the project’s activities a local coordinator is needed to:
- Analyse local market and contact local authorities involved in the agricultural sector
- Identify and contact local financing agencies involved in agricultural financing
- Manage the administrative and financial aspects of the project in accordance with the funding agency’s requirements
- Accompany experts on field missions
- Lead focus group discussions
- Collect secondary agronomist data
- Analyse the regulatory framework
- Draft a feasibility study report
- Identify possible distribution channels
- Negotiate partnership agreements
- Conduct training sessions
The local coordinator will report to the microinsurance expert and will be under the authority of the Project director.
Required Skills and qualifications
Required Skills and qualifications
- Suitable candidates will have previous project management experience
- Strong knowledge of microinsurance/insurance/microfinance is a must
- Fluency in Swahili and English is necessary
- Master’s degree or higher
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and communication skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Knowledge of local economy and local agricultural sector is desirable
Conditions
- 1 year consultancy contract
- Salary to be negotiated
How to apply:
Please send resume and cover letter to: sregent@planetguarantee.org or sweber@planetguarantee.org
Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted
Please send resume and cover letter to: sregent@planetguarantee.org or sweber@planetguarantee.org
Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted
