About Us
CIC Insurance Group is a leading cooperative-based insurance and financial services organisation with more than five decades of experience helping individuals, families, and organizations achieve financial security.
We have grown into a dynamic Group offering life, general, micro insurance, asset management, and investment solutions, with operations in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and Malawi, and are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Our tagline, “We Keep Our Word,” reflects our unwavering commitment to integrity, transparency, and delivering on our promises to our clients, partners, and communities.
CIC Group is passionate about innovation, digital transformation, and inclusive insurance solutions that meet the evolving needs of cooperatives, SMEs, corporates, and individuals. You will be part of a team that is shaping the future of financial protection across Africa.
About the Role
The role provides research, data and administrative support in gathering, organising and presenting market, competitor, regulatory and industry information under the guidance of the Head of Research or an assigned supervisor.
The Clerk will assist with desk research, industry data compilation, competitor tracking, environmental scanning, benchmarking and preparation of market-intelligence reports. The placement is designed to build practical research capability while contributing to timely and well-referenced insights for strategic planning, product development and business growth.
The role does not carry independent ownership of strategic recommendations, final market assessments, budgets or business decisions. All outputs will be reviewed and approved by the supervisor.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct assigned desk research using approved regulatory, industry, statistical, company and reputable publication sources.
- Collect, clean, validate and organize market and industry data, including premiums, market share, growth, claims, product features and pricing.
- Update competitor databases, product-comparison tools, regulatory trackers and market-intelligence repositories.
- Monitor competitor activities, product launches, partnerships, digital initiatives and market positioning, and prepare factual summaries.
- Track relevant regulatory, economic, technological and industry developments and prepare source-based briefs.
- Support industry benchmarking, market sizing, product research, opportunity assessments and business-case research through data preparation and preliminary findings.
- Prepare tables, charts, weekly updates, draft reports and presentation materials, and support stakeholder engagements through follow-up, note-taking and action tracking.
- Verify and reference sources, maintain an orderly research repository, highlight data gaps or conflicting information, and undertake other assigned research and administrative duties.
Who We’re Looking For
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Data Science, Business Analytics, Market Research or a related field.
- Applicants should be recent graduates.
Key Competencies
- No prior full-time work experience is required.
- Exposure through an internship, industrial attachment, academic research project, data-analysis assignment or business case is desirable.
- Previous exposure to financial services, insurance, economics or regulatory research is an added advantage.
- Analytical curiosity and willingness to learn.
- Commercial and market-oriented mindset.
- Basic knowledge of competitor analysis, benchmarking, market sizing or environmental scanning is desirable
- Basic exposure to Power BI, statistical tools or business-intelligence platforms is desirable
- Good communication skills – written, oral, presentation, report writing;
Why Join Us?
Joining CIC Insurance Group as a Research Clerk offers an excellent opportunity to build a career in market intelligence, business research, and strategic analysis within a leading regional financial services organization. In this role, you will contribute to informed decision-making by gathering, validating, and analyzing market, competitor, and industry data that supports business strategy and innovation. You will gain exposure to industry trends, regulatory developments, benchmarking, and strategic projects while working alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative environment. If you are analytical, detail-oriented, and passionate about transforming data into meaningful insights, CIC provides a dynamic platform to develop your research expertise and contribute to shaping the future of the business.
If you have the aforementioned professional and academic qualifications and you are ready to execute the above mandate, strictly apply clearly indicating the position being applied for.
The application should reach us by close of business on 14th August 2026. Please note only short-listed candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us by 31st August 2026 consider your application unsuccessful.
N/B: This job advert is open to both internal and external candidates.