Investment Officer - Singapore - IFC Systems Corporation

IFC Systems Corporation

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Singapore

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Description

Investment Officer

Job #:

- req20540
Organization:

IFC
Sector:
Investment
Grade:
GF
Term Duration:
3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Singapore,Singapore
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:

1/3/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description

IFC has embarked on an ambitious new growth strategy (IFC 3.0) to stimulate more investment activity, especially in Low Income Countries (LICs) and Fragile and Conflict affected Situations (FCS).

This strategy calls for generating our own opportunities by proactively working "Upstream" to create, deepen, and expand markets and to imagine, design and implement investment projects.

It requires taking a systematic approach to understanding the regulatory and sector bottlenecks that prevent the flow of private capital into productive investment in our member countries, and addressing these bottlenecks through World Bank Group engagement on policy reforms and programmatic interventions at the country and sector level.

It also requires capacity to leverage WBG programs and projects to develop our own proactive sector interventions and to imagine and design projects even in the absence of reforms.

Duties and Accountabilities:

The roles and responsibilities of the position will include but not be limited to:

Support the identification and assessment of Upstream opportunities based on country and sector strategies and market creation potential.
Contribute to the development of feasibility studies and implementation plans for Upstream projects that lead to IFC investments.
Assist in designing and implementing scalable solutions and platforms similar to "Scaling Solar" that can be replicated across markets.
Help spot gamechanging trends, technologies and business models that can bring solutions to emerging markets.
Produce regular reports on the assigned Upstream portfolio including monitoring progress against project milestones and KPIs.
Contribute to sectorspecific data analysis and stresstesting of various operating models to help generate ideas for new projects, new products and platform businesses.
Work with the World Bank to analyze sector and regulatory reforms that are needed to unlock opportunities for private investment.

Selection Criteria

Master's degree or equivalent professional qualification in Business, Finance, Economics, International Relations, Science, Engineering, or another relevant field.
At least 8 years of relevant experience in project and/or program development, producing feasibility studies, handson advisory and/or consulting functions in emerging markets.
Genuine commitment to development and to the World Bank Group and IFC's mission, strategy and values.
Understanding of IFC's strategic priorities and changing business model against the backdrop of IFC 3.0.
Capacity to innovate and challenge the status quo and experience in new idea generation, business development, and creating projects/programs from scratch.
Understanding of the relevant sector and ability to link policy reforms, advisory interventions, investment, and mobilization to deliver solutions at a country level via the Cascade approach.
Ability to engage with private sector clients, local and national governments and other stakeholders to encourage pioneering business and market development.
Experience in project/program management, including executing against implementation plans with defined business development milestones.
Experience in monitoring and reporting on a portfolio of projects/programs/initiatives.
Outstanding analytical and critical thinking skills.
Strong written and verbal communications skills in English.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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