Volunteer vacancies
"Volunteer vacancies" are opportunities for members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
As a volunteer your support helps the Profession to develop, and to achieve its strategic objectives.
Read about the benefits and how to get involved.
Current Opportunities
Our current volunteer vacancies are listed below. If there is nothing, at present, which is attractive to you, please subscribe to be kept up to date as new opportunites are advertised on this page, or contact Debbie Atkins, Volunteer Engagement Manager (pictured left), for more information.
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The Pensions Conference 2012 takes place in Brighton from 30 May - 1 June. Grateful thanks go to the Chair and members of this year's committee for everything they have done to create what is shaping up to be an excellent and informative event. Already we are looking ahead to next year's conference. We are keen to recruit proactive, innovative volunteers to join the Conference Programme Committee. We are seeking people from a wide range of areas who wish to contribute to the content of the programme and who have ideas for making this a relevant information resource and networking platform. We are keen to hear from members who are working in the Pensions sector and who have an excellent awareness of the hot topics.
View the Detailed Specific Task Description
As can be seen from the Detailed Specific Task Description, we are not just seeking to hear from Fellows, Associates and Affiliates of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. We are also keen to capture the views and input from a member specialising in ERM, and from a non-member who has considerable relevant experience. This non-member may be a lawyer who specialises in pensions work. To help us identify this non-member, we would ask members to highlight this opportunity to any of your contacts who may have this expertise and who may like to find out more.
If you would like to offer your assistance and to be considered for this volunteer vacancy, please contact Debbie Atkins, our Volunteer Engagement Manager by 29 June 2012. When contacting Debbie, please can you briefly indicate your background and experience in this field and what particular contribution you feel you could make to the Conference Programme Committee. Your ARN would also be helpful.
The Profession and the CAS are always keen to collaborate on actuarial projects, and another significant opportunity has arisen.
The CAS is publishing a book on predictive modelling and looking for reviewers for all chapters. They are particularly keen to hear from UK based actuaries specialising in GI as the expertise on GLM and other aspects of predictive modelling may be even more advanced in the UK than in the US.
If you have carried out significant research, or have worked in this area, and have a deep understanding of the topic then we would like to hear from you. To find out more and to see the list of chapters, please contact Dawn McIntosh.
The time commitment is likely to be between 10 - 20 hours per chapter.
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is recruiting for new Councils to be created in July following the introduction of the Government's proposed reformed powers for the FRC. The Actuarial Council will have 10 members. A number of posts will be filled from the FRC's current Board for Actuarial Standards, and the FRC is now seeking candidates for up to 7 vacancies on the Actuarial Council.
The Scottish Board are particularly keen to hear from members who would like to volunteer to be part of the Board. We are particularly looking for those who are keen to provide proactive assistance, along with the Profession's Executive staff, in one or more of the following areas:
- Meeting with stakeholder's to raise the profile of the Profession in Scotland
- Assisting with the Sessional Programme Committee
- Helping to establish more networking opportunities for members in Scotland
The Scottish Board: Terms of Reference
If you would like to be considered for this role please contact Debbie Atkins, Volunteer Engagement Manager, to express your interest. When contacting Debbie please provide a note of your name, ARN, the organisation for whom you currently work, a couple of lines highlighting your main reason/s for wishing to be involved, and a brief statement of what you feel you will bring to this role.
The aim of the UK Asbestos Working Party is to monitor the insurance industry's ongoing exposure to UK asbestos-related claims and to help those people responsible for estimating such liabilities to understand the issues that have an impact on the future liabilities and to assist them in making related judgements.
In January 2010, the Actuarial Profession's UK Asbestos Working Party released its updated estimate of the future cost of UK asbestos-related claims to the insurance industry. The estimates were, in part, based on a survey of aggregated asbestos-related claims numbers and costs for a large proportion (estimated to be around 80%) of the UK Insurance Market.
If your organisation has exposure to UK asbestos-related claims and you would like to participate in this survey (on an anonymous basis) please contact Dawn McIntosh at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, who will be happy to provide you with more details and to forward you a template to complete. Any data that you are able to provide will be greatly appreciated.
The working party recognises the need to maintain confidentiality and that most organisations that are willing to contribute to the surveys would prefer that their answers are kept anonymous and have taken steps to ensure that no members of the working party will be able to identify the data from any particular company.
One of the key elements of the new strategy is 'to offer excellent support that meets members' varied and evolving needs'.
To help track our progress 400 volunteers have joined our new "400 Club" – and they have already submitted their feedback on our “Communications and Engagement” survey. To ensure that the Club is an accurate representation we have selected members with care to represent the entire membership body, including student members and including our international members, from countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, South Africa, India, Jamaica, Bermuda to name but a few. In addition to the 400 inaugural members we also have a reserve list of members who would like to get involved, when space becomes available.
Members wishing to join the reserve list should contact Debbie Atkins, Volunteer Engagement Manager.
... and encourage young people to join our Profession?
Jenni Hughes, our Careers Coordinator, would like to encourage members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries to volunteer in this way. She is keen to secure support from Students as well as Associates, Affiliates and Fellows who would represent the Actuarial Profession at events, from time to time. As a Careers Ambassador you should be confident enough to be able to talk about your route into the Profession and your current role. You should also be in a position to know a bit about the current exams and how the Profession works and what we do.
- Details of opportunities for Careers Ambassadors in the UK
- Details of opportunities for International Careers Ambassadors
Members wishing to volunteer should contact Debbie Atkins, Volunteer Engagement Manager. Please provide your ARN and a note of the geographical location you would be prepared to cover.
To help highlight the many career routes and careers which are available to actuaries, we are seeking Students and Qualified Actuaries to volunteer to work with us in order to prepare profiles which can be featured on our website, in promotional literature and in online career-focused advertising. The profiles which we are keen to fill are:
- Graduate profiles - These mainly look at your route through school and university qualifications, and focus on where you are now and what you are doing in your current role - either how you got there, or a typical day or typical week. It also gives you the opportunity to look at what you might want to do in the future.
- Senior actuaries- This is a profile looking at actuaries who are much further through their career. They will have been qualified for at least five years, perhaps been through a few roles, or projects. The more varied the better. This is an opportunity to talk about non-standard routes, or career changes or practice area changes.
- Internships - We are keen for someone who is an intern to give a profile of the experience for them. Maybe with the employer's permission, talk about why they chose the company, what they have learned during the internship, what they are currently doing, and any tips for students who might seek to obtain an internship in future.
If you would like to volunteer to provide a profile, either now or in the future, please contact Debbie Atkins, Volunteer Engagement Manager. Please indicate which of the above profile(s) you would be most keen to provide.
Are you planning to attend the Pensions Conference 2012 (30 May-1 June in Brighton)?
If so, the Pensions Communications Subcommittee is seeking volunteers to offer to give their perspective of a session which they attend. The task we are seeking volunteers to deliver involves you writing a short review of a plenary or workshop which you attend, which would be agreed in advance. If selected to produce such a review, it will appear on the Profession's website. This opportunity provides you with the chance to share your own unique perspective of a talk/presentation that particularly interests you, and by volunteering to do so, you will help us to expand on the review system which was successfully trialled last year - see link below.
If you are interested in finding out more, or already know that you would like to write a review of a session you are signed up to attend, please contact kirstin.lambert@actuaries.org.uk.