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Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Contribute to the development and delivery of IFC’s agribusiness strategies and investment program working closely with the investment teams.
• Working closely with the sector lead and regional investment teams, conduct due diligence to assess project strengths and weaknesses, and provide investment teams with an appraisal report and operational parameters to be built into financial models.
• Work closely with Climate Business team to make sure all projects are assessed for Paris Alignment, decarbonization strategies, and climate transition risk and physical risk assessments; use and develop GHG monitoring tools to assess projects.
• Participate in the investment committee meetings and respond to the committee’s questions .
• Support the review of advisory/upstream services proposals.
• Provide industry and best practice advice to internal - IFC and WBG colleagues - and external clients and add value to new business development activities and portfolio monitoring, as well as to advisory services projects.
• Assist in the selection, briefing and supervision of technical consultants engaged on due diligence.
• Participate in conferences and seminars and other events representing IFC and as appropriate to maintaining and building sector knowledge.

Selection Criteria

• Commitment to IFC and the World Bank Group’s mission, strategy, and values.
• 20 years + years of operational experience in agricultural primary production at operational and management levels.
• Minimum master’s degree.
• Sound knowledge of current industry and sector operating parameters to permit comparative cost analysis and benchmarking.
• Sound knowledge and experience in delivering sustainability solutions to the agribusiness sector.
• Sound business judgment and proven track record of investment screening and assessment.
• Excellent written and spoken English skills and ability to write technical appraisal reports in a timely manner, also with French language a plus.
• Ability to work effectively in teams and build bridges across organizational boundaries.
• Passion for the sector and results driven with energy, initiative, and self-motivation.
• Willingness to undertake extensive international travel in emerging markets.

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Duties and accountabilities: 

• The Senior Water Specialist will be based in the World Bank’s Pretoria office in South Africa He/she will report to the Program Manager of WRG (based in Washington DC) and work closely with the Water Practice Manager for the region (based in Ethiopia) and country teams, the IFC team, the local country platform leaders, and partners from business, government, and civil society who oversee and support the WRG work in country.
• The specific duties and accountabilities of the Senior Water Specialist will include, inter alia:
• Lead the implementation of the WRG South Africa country program in alignment with the WRG Strategic Plan and Operational Plan, in active consultation with World Bank management and country teams and country partners.
• Support the Program Manager in identifying opportunities to scale-up WRG efforts in the region, such as expansion into new countries or new program areas while supporting existing country work in South Africa.
• Lead the production of high-caliber analytical products and technical assessments in line with program needs and priorities and ensure that they are rigorously quality-assured following regular WBG procedures.
• Fundraise and bring in new partners, including funding partners at the regional- and local levels, to ensure the financial sustainability of the regional and country programs and effective budget management.
• Develop a strategy to leverage opportunities for resource mobilization at the country level, including tapping into World Bank Group and external Trust Funds.
• Participate actively in Regional, Unit and Global Solution Groups (GSGs) meetings of the Water Global Practice, and Country Management Unit (CMU) meetings and activities and closely coordinate with all relevant groups in the World Bank, IFC and MIGA to ensure alignment and visibility of WRG internally and externally.
• Work closely with country teams to ensure alignment of activities to World Bank priorities and participate in joint activities and missions as required
• Work closely with the WRG Communications team to strengthen 2030 WRG visibility, thought leadership, and impact globally, regionally and at the country level
• Engage with and maintain close ties with all WRG partners in the respective countries, particularly government and private sector.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in a Water-related field, including, Environment, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Business Strategy, and/or Business Administration
• At least 8 years of regional and country-level work experience in program management, financing/business development, private sector development, public-private partnerships or water and other environmental issues, with relevant experience in supporting private sector-driven solutions.
• Clear understanding of the technical and policy drivers of the water sector and the political economy of reforms.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully leading regional and national-level transformational programs and delivering large-scale public-private partnership initiatives in water/sanitation/environment/ sustainability issues
• Well-established networks among key individuals and organizations associated with the water, climate, and environment agenda, ideally across public, private, and civil society sector activities in South Africa.
• Proven ability to work with senior business leaders, technical staff in the World Bank Group or equivalent in other international organizations, senior-most government officials (at the Minister or Principal Secretary level), non-governmental organizations, as well as with representatives from grassroots organizations and academia.
• Team leadership skills, with proven capacity to supervise, coordinate, and motivate team members in complex, highly decentralized, and matrixed organizational settings and manage regional and country budgets and work programs
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills in English; proficiency in other local South African languages desirable.
• Direct experience and/or familiarity with the current and potential country partners of WRG is highly desirable.

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Duties and Accountabilities:   

This is an opportunity to work within the infrastructure Africa team, and support the supervision and management of a $5bn portfolio. The Intern will principally assist in delivering (i) essential credit/structuring benchmarks needed for our new transactions, (ii) enhanced operational process to support credit review of the portfolio, and (iii) fund management specific tasks. More specifically, the work will include: 
 
Projects related: 

• Define (in discussion with the Portfolio Leads) a number of key commercial/credit/operational criteria to be tracked across our portfolio projects, that will inform structuring of new projects. Develop a database for these by working with the relevant projects IOs. 
• Improve the process of documenting key executed legal information by Projects (project “bible”, relevant amendments and waivers as processed through the PDS changes). 

Portfolio operational: 

• Work with Portfolio Leads (and credit if needed) to design a template for PD and LGD on Word, that’ll be used to track changes between quarterly credit review. 
• Create a repository for portfolio knowledge management: lessons learned papers, XPSRs, key guidance notes. 
• Support training efforts in relation to specific topics (for example fund valuation/supervision, Equity valuation etc.). 

Fund management specific: 

• Develop a format and produce IFC Africa Infrastructure Team Fund Investment 2-pagers for all fund projects (currently 10 projects in our portfolio). 
• Support generating a CRR in accordance with our investment procedures and requirements.

Selection Criteria

• Candidates must be currently enrolled in a Master’s degree level program  
• Preferred field of study: Finance; Accounting; Statistics 
• Minimum of 2 years of previous work experience  
• Strong Excel skills are required 
• CFA would be a plus 

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Duties and Accountabilities:   

• Support in market research and dynamics, industry and economic trends, data collection, and analysis in the sector. 
• Support in client mapping and reaching out to potential clients. 
• Support in evaluating financial viability and strategic fit of investment opportunities 
• Support in developing pitch books, teasers and concept notes. 
• Support in specific tasks for ongoing transactions (under supervision). 
• Support on financial modeling and analysis. 

Selection Criteria

• Candidates must be currently enrolled in a Master’s degree level program  
• Preferred field of study: Masters in Business Administration (MBA);Finance 
• Minimum of 2 years of previous work experience  
• Previous experience in market research 
• Financial modelling, strong analytical and Excel skills are required