Jobs at FSD Africa

The consultant will be expected to:

• Review and analyse the current regulations, guidelines, and policies in various African countries that govern insurance investments.
• Identify challenges and barriers faced by insurance companies in investing in green assets, such as regulatory constraints, lack of incentives, or unclear guidelines.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for insurance companies to invest in green assets
• Provide recommendations for regulatory improvements or new policies that could facilitate increased investment in green assets by insurance companies
• Consult with relevant stakeholders, including insurance regulators, industry associations, insurance companies, and sustainability experts, to gather insights and validate findings.
• Prepare a comprehensive report summarizing the findings, analyses, and recommendations
• Present key findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders, including policymakers and industry representatives.

Deliverables

• The deliverables under this contract are as follows:
• Inception Report: Outline the approach, methodology, and work plan.
• Regulatory Landscape Report:
• Detailed analysis of current regulations and policies
• Assessment of opportunities and challenges for green investments.
• Policy and Regulatory Recommendations Report: policy and regulatory recommendations for enhancing insurance sector investments in green assets.
• Presentation: presentation to stakeholders.

Skills and qualification for proposed team members

• At least a master’s degree or equivalent postgraduate and/or professional qualifications in Sustainable Finance, Policy, Economics, Actuarial Science, or any other related field.

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The assignment will cover the following areas.

• Develop and design an all-rounded understanding of ethics and ethical conduct aligned to the organisational code of conduct and best practices. This programme should include, but not be limited to:
• Understanding of ethics, specifically ethical dilemmas e.g procurement ethics, conflicts of interest, etc
• FSD Africa wishes to contract a consultant/firm (the “Consultant”) to support FSD Africa’s HR &
• Talent Management and Risk & Compliance function to provide an Ethics and Compliance learning programme.
• The goal of this assignment is to provide fundamental skills on Ethics and Compliance within FSD
• Africa as aligned to our policies and procedures.
• The Consultant will work with the HR & Talent Management pillar- Learning and Development
• Manager & Head of Risk & Compliance to develop and deliver a robust development plan for this programme in collaboration with the HR Director.
• Gaining understanding of fraud awareness, identification and providing strategies on mitigation of fraud risk, whistleblowing, anti-corruption and bribery prevention measures, legal & regulatory compliance and compliance using practical situational experiential learning approaches.
• Social responsibility e.g promoting ethical labour practices, avoiding forced labour, encouraging fair wages and ethical sourcing

Deliverables

• Conduct a skills audit/learning needs gap, this should be provided as a draft proposal on the approach.
• Provide a detailed workplan to meet the needs identified, explaining the methodology and how the learning will be achieved.
• Design a learning programme that will adopt the key proposed methodologies to implement the learning.
• Provide a report on the noted learning and opportunities for FSD Africa to improve compliance and any post action follow up.
• Develop leadership development curriculum for participants:
• Develop learning materials for the participant including learning materials for the participants in a workbook/manual form containing important topics/tools.
• Develop a learning evaluation summary in a detailed report adopting learning evaluation disciplines.
• Deliver engaging content that will be digitalised on our e-learning (Emodule Scrom enabled) or provide content for subsequent digitalisation post implementation.