Fund Programme Specialist: JET-IP Office at IDC

Qualification and Experience

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: relevant commercial or technical Honour’s Degree or equivalent qualification.
• MBA or Master’s Degree would be an advantage

Experience

• 5- 8 Years of relevant experience within financial services preferably within a development finance institution. Additionally experience in venture capital and early- stage investment will be an added advantage.
• Broad financial markets experience including, but not restricted to, appraising, negotiating and closing Project Finance, Corporate Finance or Structured Finance transactions or acting in a debt and/or equity instrument sales and distribution role in a financial institution.
• Experience in syndicating investment deals of appropriate sizes in relevant sectors/geographies in SA and/or Africa.
• Experience with Tax issues/matters/implications associated with grant and official development assistance (ODA) funding.
• Experience in repackaging assets and distributing risk to capital market investors.
• Understanding of the Development Finance Environment and the Just Energy Transition.
• Grounded experience on development issues.
• Strong networks and relationships with clients, global and regional private investors and banks in order to distribute viable projects/investments.
• Experience in developing/reviewing and using corporate/project/structured finance financial models.
• Experience with raising grant funding and managing grant programmes for investment in SMEs and Large projects, early -stage enterprises and technical assistance support.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the complex financial and regulatory environments across Africa.
• Strong customer focus and ability to engage effectively with senior officials of banks, corporates and governments.
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative and culturally diverse environment.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities while building effective relationships.
• Extremely organized and persistent, with drive and determination to achieve goals.

Roles and Responsibilities

Financial/Shareholder Returns

• Development of annual business plans and formulation and implementation of strategies to execute the role of the department.
• To review the necessary reports to senior management, various committees and Board, as required.
• Support Pre-Investment Business Support Specialists, Strategic Business Units (SBUs) and other relevant stakeholders in their credit submissions to IDC approval authorities by providing input into credit reports, including considerations and recommendations.
• Coordinate and engage consultants from the approved Business Support Programme panel of service providers to implement interventions, monitor their work, track intervention progress through consultants’ progress reports, ensure their invoices are duly paid, evaluate their performance and assess the impact of their intervention.

Internal/Operational Processes

• Operational line management of direct reports made up of a team of Pre-Investment Business Support Specialists, Administrators and Contractors (where applicable) responsible for specific deliverables; and oversee their engagement and deliverables with
  internal and external stakeholders.
• Utilise own and expert knowledge, experience, multi-dimensional understanding and application of best practices to guide the team in the fulfilment of its roles.
• Manage and review key pre-investment business support processes and procedures on a regular basis.
• Oversee direct report performance contracting and performance monitoring and measurement as well as provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to the team.
• Coordinate the Pre-Investment Business Support Specialists with the screening of requests for Pre-Investment Business Support to determine whether they fit within the mandate of the Pre-Investment Business Support Programme.
• Coordinate the business diagnosis along with the relevant SBU to assess clients’ pre-investment business support needs, challenges, problems and opportunities.
• Oversee the drafting and implementation of pre-investment business support interventions according to the approved terms of reference.
• Ensure that accurate and up-to-date information on pre-investment business support clients are completed on the SAP pipeline.
• Proactively identify improvements to the internal pre-investment business support control systems and procedures.

Customer Focus & Stakeholder Management

• Liaise with the SBUs and other stakeholders about pre-investment business support requirements and design an adequate programme to address the identified needs.
• Facilitate the engagements between the Pre-Investment Business Support Specialists and the relevant stakeholders to achieve team and corporate targets.
• Market pre-investment business support products and services to internal stakeholders and to clients.