Organization: IFC

Sector: Other

Grade: GG

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: International Recruitment

Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

Required Language(s): English

Selection Criteria:

• Master’s degree in a related field and at least 8–12 years of relevant experience. Related fields of education include business, finance, or economics or an area of expertise specific to a sector, subject matter, or industry specialty. Relevant experience could include a proven track record in business consulting or investment banking or operational experience in the sector or technical or professional field.
•  In-depth understanding of how IFC works and its strategies and priorities.
• Ability to initiate collaborative efforts with WBG organizations to leverage its products and instruments.
• Ability to identify opportunities for collaboration on high-value projects and recognize potential COIs based on a good understanding of WBG, IFC (investment and advisory), and WBG products and project requirements.
•  Ability to initiate and guide collaborative efforts with WBG organizations to leverage its products and instruments.
• Capacity to understand, enable, and participate in market creation opportunities and interventions to strengthen investment climate by demonstrating long-term perspective, open-mindedness, persistence, and good understanding of IFC/WBG roles and value-add in new markets.
•  Ability to participate and constructively contribute in meetings with mid-level government officials on constraints to private sector investment in their countries.
• Capacity to identify and promote specific interventions to remove or mitigate market creation barriers in sectors and geographies using approaches that go beyond IFC, business line, or industry to enable private sector investment.
• Ability to understand the political context and mindset of government officials to connect their interests with what it would take to create a business climate and incentives for private sector investment in their countries.
• In-depth analytical, financial, credit, integrity assessment, and business skills to identify bankable projects with sustainable development impact as well as potential weaknesses in the country portfolio and determine how to approach complex risk-reward trade-offs.
•  Sufficient analytical, financial, credit, integrity assessment, and business skills as well as strategic perspective to intuitively recognize project viability and attractiveness early on, identify portfolio management vulnerabilities, and determine best approaches for managing complex transaction and portfolio risks.
• Industry/Sector Knowledge: Broad knowledge of sectors and industries within a country or group of countries, including their viability for market growth, market challenges as well as implications of environmental and social sustainability issues, and how sector dynamics may evolve within a country or group of countries.
• Ability to tap into and leverage resources with expertise in sectors and industries, including risks, market dynamics, and regulatory structures. Able to read and anticipate shifts in market trends and the implications for IFC’s current and future business.
•  Country Knowledge: Demonstrated extensive knowledge of the country including its politics, history, social dynamics, culture, economics, local markets, and regulatory framework.
• Developing and Selling Solutions: Demonstrated success as a key influencer in bringing integrated solutions to the concept review stage where there are significant challenges and competing interests.
•  Ability to develop a coherent and compelling storyline or rationale for why specific deals are proposed and how they fit into IFC’s long-term strategies.
•  Negotiation Skills: Capacity to lead negotiations that find common interests to build and result in viable agreements among clients and stakeholders who initially had conflicting agendas. Ability to offer alternative solutions to capitalize on opportunities and overcome impasses.

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