Role Responsibilities:
- Lead the identification
and assessment of opportunities in Eastern and Southern Africa, in close
collaboration with the IFC investment and country teams; work with the
World Bank to identify and help implement sector and regulatory reforms
that are needed to unlock opportunities for private investment.
- Provide quality research
and analysis for market and opportunity creation, including market
mapping, comparator analysis, barrier analysis, and sector and company
financial projections and models, including analysis of potential clients
to help generate ideas for new Investment and Upstream/Advisory projects,
new products, and platform businesses.
- Lead the design,
development, and implementation of high-quality advisory initiatives and
interventions.
- Lead the development of
compelling pitch books and proposals for prospective clients.
- Lead discussions on
specific fund-raising initiatives, collaborating closely with the
Partnerships team, and deliver on donor fund raising.
- Collaborate with
stakeholders and build partnerships with staff across IFC and the World
Bank Group, sponsors, clients, and other external parties to enable
delivery of Upstream and Investment projects.
- Lead IFC project and
teams, documentation, planning, and monitoring of deliverables to ensure
timely and quality delivery of the work program.
- Manage the production of
regular reports on the assigned portfolio, including monitoring progress
against project milestones and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Coordinate efforts and
develop initiatives to disseminate and exchange knowledge with internal
and external parties, and review lessons learned to help improve current
projects or processes; support thought leadership through contribution of
expertise, assisting in conducting conferences and other knowledge
management events, including speaking engagements, training activities
that demonstrate FIG’s thought leadership in area of expertise, and
exchange with other regions.
- Mentor junior team
members working on Upstream/ advisory activities.
Selection
Criteria
- A master’s degree in
Business, Economics, Finance, International Development, or related
fields.
- Demonstrated experience
of at least 12 years in the financial sector, of which 8 should be in
Banking or related consulting services.
- Excellent track record in
the origination, design, implementation, management, oversight, and
monitoring of technical assistance projects.
- Excellent track record in
the origination, design, implementation, management, oversight, and
monitoring of investment projects.
- Strong understanding of
the financial sector and ability to link policy reforms, advisory
interventions, investment, and mobilization to create markets and deliver
novel and/or scalable solutions at a country level; strong understanding
of international best practices and global trends in the banking industry;
good knowledge of regional trends in Eastern and Southern Africa.
- Good knowledge of FIG
Upstream / Advisory areas of work, including MSME finance, Digital
Financial Services, Climate Finance, Agrifinance and Risk Management.
- Strong numerical and
analytical skills; understanding of financial/portfolio indicators,
budgeting, and financial projections and ability to synthetize complex
information and make concrete strategic and tactical recommendations.
- Excellent leadership
skills, a team builder, with a demonstrated track record of managing teams
on complex projects and programs.
- Capacity to build
productive and mutually beneficial relationships and networks internally
and externally to identify business opportunities, discuss structuring
alternatives, and resolve issues.
- Ability to communicate
ideas clearly and confidently, and credibly represent IFC with clients and
stakeholders, including at the senior management level, in both the public
and private sectors.
How to
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