The appointee will be required to assist the Chief Insurance Officer to provide professional inputs from insurance perspective in facilitating the formulation of scheme details for a voluntary, government-regulated Health Protection Scheme (HPS), including:

• (a)to help design prototype features of a Standard Plan for HPS, including the coverage, levels, benefit limits for common healthcare services, and optional top-up components to the Standard Plan;
• (b)to draft operational rules of the government-regulated Health Protection Scheme (HPS) for those who may afford to subscribe to private health insurance and use private healthcare services on a voluntary basis;
• (c)to draft project details, timeline and arrangements with respect to the implementation of HPS, including registration, verification, enforcement, etc. of participating insurers and healthcare service providers under HPS; and operational arrangements including underwriting and portability and
• (d)to lay-out administrative details and management on migration of existing private health insurance plans (including those offered in the form of riders to, for example, life insurance plans) to HPS. Other duties of relevance to the HPS will also be assigned to the appointee as determined by his/her supervisors.

Candidates should:

• (a)have a University degree or equivalent;
• (b)be a fellow member of at least one of the following professional bodies，or equivalent (note 1):
  • (i)Chartered Insurance Institute, United Kingdom;
  • (ii)Society of Actuaries, United States of America
  • (iii)Institute of Actuaries, Australia;
  • (iv)Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, United Kingdom;
  • (v)Canadian Institute of Actuaries; or
  • (vi)Casualty Actuarial Society, United States of America;
• (c)minimum of 4 years of full-time experience in health (or life) insurance, or reinsurance, on product development in the area of actuarial, operation or underwriting; (note 2) and
• (d)have obtained “Level 3” or above in English Language and Chinese Language in Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE), or equivalent (note 3).