Impact Fellow, Insurance Innovations

About Salzburg Global 

Salzburg Global is where open-minded leaders from around the world gather for breakthrough conversations on pressing global issues. Since 1947, our programs have worked to overcome barriers and open up a world of better possibilities – creating spaces where divergent voices can address the big challenges of our time. We have gathered over 40,000 Fellows from 173 countries for more than 1,100 sessions that change the conversation on the pressing issues of our time. That very first session brought together over 100 young Europeans and Americans – including veterans of the French resistance, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, prisoners of war, and former enemies. They met at Schloss Leopoldskron, an Austrian palace that had been occupied by the Nazis in a country that was still under Allied military occupation. They wrestled with how diverse and fractured groups of people could come together and start creating the conditions for peace in the aftermath of World War II. Seventy-seven years later, the challenges may be different, but our mission still carries that same founding spirit: to overcome barriers and open up a world of better possibilities. 

Our Impact 

Salzburg Global has been at the forefront of major global movements for change since 1947. Sometimes called a “Marshall Plan for the Mind” in its early years, Salzburg Global began as a world-renowned center for post-war reconciliation through intellectual and cultural exchange. In the 1950s, Salzburg Global internationalized the emerging interdisciplinary field of American Studies and promoted educational and scientific exchange across the Iron Curtain. In the 1960s and 1970s, Salzburg Global helped to catalyze and professionalize the civil society sector in Eastern Europe, develop and internationalize the emerging field of sustainable urban design and was among the first organizations to support the concept of “climate migration”. In the 1980s and 1990s, Salzburg Global convened one of the first global collaborations on HIV/AIDS research, laid the groundwork for the Good Friday Agreement that ended hostilities in Northern Ireland, supported the redesign of higher education systems in post-Apartheid South Africa, and partnered with reform-minded universities in Eastern European and the former Soviet Union to transform post-communist higher education institutions.

In the 2000s, Salzburg Global launched the first global movements for patient-centered healthcare and patient safety, inspired the creation of the “One Health” movement on human and animal health, and engaged educators in more than 50 countries in the first globally diverse Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention program. More recently, Salzburg Global has helped to catalyze the development of global pandemic response metrics, supported the launch of Karanga – The Global Alliance for Social and Emotional Learning and the National Parks Cities Movement, and Sciana: The European Health Leaders Network. 

We are supported by a combination of institutional partnerships, generous individual donations and revenue generated from our social enterprise, Schloss Leopoldskron. 

We seek to be an exemplary international institution in terms of equity and environmental sustainability. We strongly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and join us in our work. 

About the Position 

We are seeking a dynamic and organized individual to join our team as Impact Fellow, Insurance Equity Innovations.

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in supporting the successful implementation of our health and wealth equity programs, including the program on homeowner, business and agriculture insurance solutions for vulnerable individuals and communities.  

As Impact Fellow, Insurance Equity Innovations, you will be a key player in researching innovations, policy, and insurance product solutions around the world to recruit an outstanding cohort of international leaders. You will contribute significantly to both program implementation and development, collaborating with various departments within Salzburg Global and external partners. 

You are the ideal candidate for this job if you have strong knowledge of innovations, policy, and home, business and/or agriculture insurance product solutions around the world making insurance accessible and affordable under extreme weather conditions. Good communication and organizational skills and keen attention to detail are highly desirable. You will also enjoy working collaboratively in intercultural contexts and be enthusiastic about engaging with people and institutions all over the world. 

Responsibilities Include:

Program Recruitment 

• Research innovations, policy, and insurance product solutions around the world, particularly outside the US.  

• Identify and track invitations for 70 suitable leaders to represent the innovations and solutions at our program in Salzburg. 

• Develop a call for applications and filter applications. 

• Support the seamless execution of the recruitment and onboarding process of international leaders to our program. 

Program Implementation 

• Serve as a key point of contact for program Fellows, ensuring they have clear information and necessary support. 

• Attend virtual meetings with Fellows. 

Program Development and Planning  

• Support the creation and communication of compelling program materials to promote the visibility of the call for applications.   

• Ensure effective planning, tracking and archiving of the process and documents. 

• Attend program partner calls, capturing notes and action items to support program development efforts. 

Conditions 

• USD $2000/month. 

• Start Date: March 2025

• Remote, fixed-term freelance contract until June 30, 2025

• Travel to, and accommodation in Salzburg to support in-person program delivery will be provided. 

How to Apply 

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume.

Expressions of interest will be reviewed as they are received. No phone calls please. 

Salzburg Global actively encourages applications from communities that have been historically marginalized. We especially welcome applications from people of color, disabled people, those who identify as LGBT*, people from low-income backgrounds, and those from ethnically diverse and/or migrant communities. 

LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. We are using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.