Organization
M4A Foundation - CrowdDoing

Wildfire Risk Prevention Virtual Volunteer Financial Product Design Development & Architecture

Duration
Recruiting through Oct 29th
Location
El Dorado Hills, CA

Opportunity Details

Ongoing

Remote

Recruiting through Oct 29th

El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

About this Opportunity

Wildfire Risk Prevention Financial Product Design Development & Architecture Analysis

You can see a 35 minute video on prevention derivatives here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdpHKlZj2c&feature=youtu.be

Knowledge or Interest in developing around scientific and financial constraints, including:

Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution

PM2.5 Wildfire Pollution Exposure

Wildfire Pollution Grossly Underestimated

Wildfire Pollution Puts specific populations at risk (for example, see Kidney Patients at Risk)

Wildfire Pollution can make People more Susceptible

Fire in an Area of Combustible Vegetation

Power-lines and wildfire risk

Houses are Destroyed by Wildfires

Spatial Patterns analysis

Climate Change as a factor in wildfire risk acceleration -climate change as a Common Causes of Wildfire

Lightning

Wildland-urban Interface Raises Wildfire Risk

Economics

Insurance

Cost - Benefit Analysis

Technical research

Environmental research

Market research

Business research

Insight generation

Expectations:

Identify/Collect data/papers/literature relevant to wildfire Impact

Quantify costs incurred by different stakeholders as a result of Wildfire

Generate Insights from currently available research papers

Present your work

Work cross-functionally

Traits:

Wildfire Prevention Financial Product Design Development & Architecture Analysis-

High curiosity, creative, critical thinking, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision.

Develop core analytical capabilities or model libraries, using advanced statistical, quantitative, or econometric techniques.

Provide application or analytical support to wildfire prevention and insurance researchers or traders on issues such as valuations or data.

Research or develop analytical tools to address issues such as wildfire prevention portfolio construction or optimization, performance measurement, attribution, profit and loss measurement, or pricing models.

Maintain or modify all financial analytic models in use.

Apply mathematical or statistical techniques to address practical issues in finance, such as derivative valuation, risk management, or financial market regulation.

Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems.

Define or recommend model specifications or data collection methods.

Confer with other financial engineers or analysts on financial product structure in light of market dynamics, informed by the development of quantitative techniques.

Collaborate with product development teams to research, model, validate, or implement quantitative structured solutions for new or expanded wildfire prevention markets.

Consult team members to determine the need for new or improved analytical applications.

Collect, synthesize, analyze, manage, and report environmental data, such as pollution emission measurements, atmospheric monitoring measurements, meteorological or mineralogical information, or soil or water samples.

Communicate scientific or technical information to the public, organizations, or internal audiences through oral briefings, written documents, workshops, conferences, training sessions, or public hearings.

Provide advice on proper standards and regulations or the development of policies, strategies, or codes of practice for environmental management.

Prepare charts or graphs from data samples, providing summary information on the environmental relevance of the data.

Analyze data to determine validity, quality, and scientific significance and to interpret correlations between human activities and environmental effects.

Determine data collection methods to be employed in research projects or surveys.

Process and review environmental permits, licenses, or related materials.

Plan or develop research models, using knowledge of mathematical and statistical concepts.

Conduct applied research on environmental topics in wildfire prevention

Research sources of wildfire air pollution to determine their effects on the environment and to develop theories or methods of wildfire pollution prevention

For questions and correspondence regarding codesigning a perfect volunteer role for yourself in the CrowdDoing systems change venture lab please email: "[email protected]"

Watch our video to learn more: Systemic change by CrowdDoing

Skills/Interests

  • Business Skills
  • Data Science
  • Marketing
  • Research

Issue area

  • Education