Volunteer vacancies

Volunteering is a great way for members and non-members to help develop the wider actuarial community. You will work with the IFoA to deliver our strategy and Royal Charter and help promote our values.

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Vacancies with a closing date

Please note:

  • We may close vacancies early if we receive a large number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
  • We’re unable to accept late applications.

 

An opportunity to join the Designated Professional Body (DPB) Board of the IFoA has arisen.

If you are a Fellow or Associate of the IFoA and work in a DPB licensed or FCA authorised firm, you may be interested in joining the board tasked with responsibility for overseeing the operation of the DPB regime.

Designated Professional Body Board – actuary volunteer

We are a small, dedicated group looking for enthusiastic and well-connected individuals to support our efforts and help ensure succession planning for the committee's future growth and success.

Health and Care Lifelong Learning Sub-committee – members

We are looking for volunteers with expertise and a strong interest in supporting individuals to understand and action their own finances.

Personal Financial Planning Working Party – members

The IFoA Gen AI Working Party is seeking to appoint enthusiastic members to contribute to the advancement and application in general insurance, life, health and care, pensions, finance and investments, risk management, or any other areas/wider fields.

Gen AI Working Party – members

We welcome applications from actuaries across different professions in the financial services sector, including consultants and advisors. Relevant experience of risk management, curiosity and willingness to contribute to the actuarial profession, as well as a collaborative approach are considered key for the role.

Risk Management Board – member

The IFoA is seeking to appoint 6 to 8 members to join the new Pensions Sustainability and Covenant Working Party. Both IFoA members and suitably experienced non-members (for example, covenant advisers, accountants, sustainability professionals) are welcome to apply.

Pensions Sustainability and Covenant Working Party – Chair and members

The General Insurance Standards and Consultations Sub-committee is seeking to appoint additional members. The sub-committee membership comprises of general insurance actuaries in technical support roles and client facing roles. New volunteers are welcome from either background. 

General Insurance Standards and Consultations Sub-committee – members

The Learning Content Reviewer plays a key role in ensuring the accuracy, clarity, and quality of technical materials produced for the IFoA curriculum. 

Learning Content Reviewer

We are seeking qualified members of the IFoA, particularly with experience in the pensions industry in the UK and/or internationally, to join this Helpdesk panel and contribute their expertise in supporting this important service.

Professional and Regulatory Support Helpdesk – panel member

The IFoA is seeking to appoint 6 to 10 members to join a new stewardship working party. Both IFoA members and suitably experienced non-members (for example, asset owners, asset managers, stewardship specialists, sustainability analysts) are welcome to apply.

The Stewardship Gap: Closing the Distance Between Policy and Practice Working Party – Chair and members

We are keen to hear from members and non-members practicing in general insurance with detailed reserving experience (preferably relating to a number of organisations). The successful volunteers will have the opportunity to influence the scope of the working party’s future output and direction of travel.

Towards the Optimal Reserving Working Party – members

The IFoA is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic member to chair the Life Standards and Consultations Committee (LSCC).

Life Standards and Consultations Committee – Chair

The IFoA is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic member to join the Life Standards and Consultations Committee (LSCC) as Deputy Chair.

Life Standards and Consultations Committee – Deputy Chair

The IFoA is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic member to join the Life Standards and Consultations Committee (LSCC).

Life Standards and Consultations Committee – member

Ongoing vacancies

If you are a qualified member of the IFoA and are willing to have a conversation with other members around learning, development, and reflection, please consider joining the ‘appropriate person’ pool.

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CPD co-ordinators play a key role in effective engagement between organisations who employ our members and the IFoA.

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The general insurance Machine Learning in Reserving Working Party is a group of over 70 volunteers, bringing together a range of data scientists, actuaries and academics from around the globe.

Machine Learning in Reserving Working Party – members

For all members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA): volunteer to join the IFoA’s 400 Club and have an effective voice in shaping the future of your profession.

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At IFoA we pride ourselves on working with organisations that employ our student members. It is vital that we get your feedback and work with you to support your (and our) students, so make sure you have a volunteer student employer contact registered with us.

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Diversity and inclusion

We are committed to promoting diversity, equality of opportunity, and inclusion within all our vacancies and we actively encourage applications from a diverse range of potential candidates. Recognising and embracing the unique and diverse talents of our volunteers is fundamental to the success of our organisation.

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