Consulting with Financial Protection Project in Kazakhstan

 

Positions: Pension Reform/Mortgage/Insurance/Financial Instruments Specialists
Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan

Description: Chemonics International is preparing a proposal in response to the USAID-funded Financial Protection Initiative in Kazakhstan. The project has four separate components: private pension reform, life insurance, residential mortgages, and new financial instruments. We are looking for senior consultants with good leadership and team building skills for potential long and short-term assignments. Regional experience and Russian and/or Kazakh language skills are a plus.

We are recruiting for three long term consultants (see descriptions below) who, in addition to providing their expertise, will supervise local employees and help administer the Almaty field office, as well as oversee the work of short-term consultants.

Long-term positions:

  • Legal/Regulatory Specialist - Should have 7-10 years related domestic and overseas experience developing a legal and regulatory environment including securities market instruments, insurance, and pension funds.

  • Insurance/Pension Specialist - Should have 7-10 years of domestic and overseas work in insurance industry oversight and supervision and hold a graduate degree in law, finance, accounting, economics, insurance studies, or the equivalent combination of experience and education. Familiarity with global insurance industry standards and working knowledge of actuarial sciences, database management, and writing regulations are required. Further areas of knowledge should include licensing of insurance agents and market conduct regulations. Pension experience should include pension fund organization, management, and processes, with experience in establishing a private pension fund. Should be fully versed in the opportunities and possible problems such funds face in finding sources of investment and matching liabilities.

  • Mortgage-lending Specialist - Should have 7-10 years of domestic and overseas experience in mortgage industry oversight and supervision with a graduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, or the equivalent. Familiarity with global mortgage lending practices and working knowledge of collateralized mortgage securities, corporate debt securities, and government securities in the primary and secondary markets, as well as mortgage loan underwriting and computation of debt service payments. Experience in mortgage banking and finance needed to help loan and credit administration, asset/liability management, financial statement analysis, collateral risk evaluation and management information systems are also important.

    Short-term expatriates:

    Short-term consultants serve from a few weeks to a few months on specific assignments. The positions include:

  • Insurance Supervision and Enforcement Specialist
  • Actuarial Specialist
  • Training Specialist
  • Insurance Product Development Specialists (Life/Annuities)
  • Information Technology Specialists
  • Pension Regulatory and Operations Specialists
  • Pension Fund Administrator
  • Investment Advisor/Portfolio Manager
  • Management Consultant
  • Mortgage Origination Specialists
  • Mortgage Bond Underwriting and Trade Specialist

    To Apply: Please email resume and cover letter indicating position title to [email protected] or fax to (202) 955-7540, ATTN: G. Karlin. No phone calls please.

    Graham Karlin
    Assistant Project Administrator
    Chemonics International
    Tel.: (202) 955-7549
    Email: [email protected]
    Website: www.chemonics.com

    • Last updated:    May 2000

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