Manager - Consulting & Research

**About Pula**:
At Pula, we are radically restructuring agricultural insurance, using technology to insure the previously unbanked, uninsured, untapped market of 1.5 billion smallholders worldwide.

We work in over 17 countries across Africa and Asia, and by 2021, we have facilitated crop insurance cover to over 5.3 million farmers across Kenya, India, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Zambia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Malawi. Since raising our Series A our operations have expanded globally including now Asia and Latin America.

Pula is a fast-paced space, constantly adapting to new opportunities and challenges and we are made up of a high-performance, multi-cultural team. We expect our team to value performance, results and professionalism.

At Pula, **our values** are:

- Obsessed with results: We are responsible for our future and therefore we get things done
- Connect the Dots: We continuously identify different customer needs & business problems and build solutions that deliver value.
- Have a Can do Attitude We dare to do things differently to make things work.
- We have each others' back: We look out for each other & we share high quality, timely feedback that makes us better.

**About Pula**:
According **to the UN's InterGovernmental Panel for Climate Change more than 3.3 billion people globally live in hotspots with high vulnerability to climate change and are now already feeling the impact of climate change **through increased temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall.

Insurance is a tool for vulnerable households in these affected regions to adapt to the effects that climate change is already having today on these households. It is a tool that enables for compensation payment for losses and damages that **these households had no part in causing**. Insurance compensation enables these households to make adjustments to their day to day livelihoods and practices and therefore **allows for an equitable and just transition.**

**At Pula,** we are building the systems that enable farmers worldwide to access insurance, using technology to insure this previously uninsured worldwide. We work in over 17 countries across Africa and Asia, and by 2021, have facilitated crop insurance cover to **over 6 million farmers, 30% of which are women, **across Kenya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Zambia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi. We are a for profit, and have raised over $10 million from leading venture and institutional investors as well as developed philanthropic relationships with private foundations and bilateral donors such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and German Insure Resilience Solutions Fund that have accelerated investments in our target markets.

Pula is **proudly break-neck paced,** **constantly learning from the challenges we face and overcome.** We are proudly culturally diverse but united in our ambition of continuous high-performance. By challenging ourselves we believe that we can overcome the hard problems we love solving.

**At Pula, our culture is defined by our**:

- **Obsession with results**:We are responsible for our future and therefore we get things done
- **Ability to connect the Dots**:We continuously identify different customer needs & business problems and build solutions that deliver value.
- **Our Can do Attitude** We dare to do things differently to make things work.
- **Ability to have each others' back**: We look out for each other & we share high quality, timely feedback that makes us better.

**The Pula Director - Consulting & Research**

Pula is seeking an experienced consulting director to build our insights into smallholder farmers. She/he must have a love for building partnerships across commercial and public sector, profits and nonprofits, probing into data, solving challenging problems, and structuring complex processes, while also being comfortable building a cutting-edge ag-tech startup.

She/he is expected to independently lead consulting engagements that leverage our trove of existing relationships, products, data and leverage the potential of new technologies, including remote sensing, with the goal of delivering tangible new consulting revenue and long term new commercial opportunities. Tasks will range from liaising with new research and corporate and philanthropic clients, to working with management and tech teams to ensure smooth delivery of research and insights, to visiting the field to understand the on-the-ground perspective, to synthesizing learnings from the business and clients, to contributing to the creation of new value-additive products for farmers, agribusiness, insurers, governments, mobile operators and their agent networks.

The Director
- consulting & research will report to the President & Co-Founder, and work in close collaboration with the partnerships, product, commercial, actuarial and operations teams.

**What you'll be doing**:

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