Location of work: NSW, VIC Length of contract: 12 months 12 months extension Candidate must be an Australian Citizen Role/s: 1 x EL1 Actuary The EL1 Actuary (Professional Stream) is an important team leadership position and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities. The position will provide the leadership, control, planning, resource management, performance management and decision making for team members working within the position's assigned Work Area. The role is responsible for actively managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships and may be required to represent and negotiate and advance the interests across a range of forums. Key duties and responsibilities Providing statistical and actuarial advice. Oversight and management ofreporting, analysis and data management activities as required, including regular perfonnance monitoring. Designing actuarial, statistical and mathematical models to undertake analytical work that respond to business issues, including actuarial monitoring and analyses, data tabulations, scheme projects and cost benefit analyses. Undertaking ad hoc modelling requests and report production. Effectively communicating (verbally and in writing) and presenting the outcomes of work undertaken, tailored to context. Criteria Candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters. Essential criteria Proficiency in R or Python, with preference towards R, including: - Clean/transform/summarise large data sets (e.g. data.table, dplyr) - Functional programming practices - Train/evaluate/infer machine learning models (e.g. xgboost) Proficiency in SQL Some experience with version control systems, i.e. git Experience building statistical or machine learning models Experience leading a team / delegating tasks This position is within the professional job stream and the officer must possess relevant academic qualifications including tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Studies or Mathematics/Statistics, with significant progress towards Associate and/or Fellowship qualifications. Only candidates with FIAA qualification and 7 to 15 years-experience will be considered. Desirable criteria Experience with agile Package development in R (devtools, roxygen2) Dashboard development in R (shiny)