Associate Investment Officer/investment Officer

**Associate Investment Officer/Investment Officer**

**Job #**:

- req32831

**Organization**:

- IFC

**Sector**:

- Investment

**Grade**:

- GF

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Cairo,Egypt

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

**Preferred Language(s)**:

- Arabic and/or French

**Closing Date**:

- 5/6/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

IFC’s Transaction Advisory Services Department (CTA) is housed in the IFC Cross-Cutting Solutions Vice Presidency (CCSVPU) and consists of two business lines:

- PPP Transaction Advisory (C3P) offers transaction advisory services to governments to assist them in partnering with the private sector in sustainable long-term infrastructure projects through designing and structuring PPP transactions able to provide high-quality, affordable, and efficient public and social services. The main sectors are typically electricity, water, transportation, telecommunications, and social services, such as health and education. C3P focuses on advising on the following types of transactions across all infrastructure sectors: Public-Private Partnerships e.g. BOT type concessions., Restructuring and privatization of state-owned enterprises.
- Corporate Finance Services (CFS) has three key product offerings: (1) M&A Advisory: advising on buy-side / sell-side transactions; (2) Equity Mobilization Program (EMP): supporting third-party equity mobilization alongside IFC investment; (3) Asset monetization involving listed or listing public entities.

CTA mobilized $4.7B of private investment in FY24 and has a target of $5.9B for FY25, translating into almost 25% of IFC’s total core mobilization. Drawing on over 25 years of experience and over 120 staff across the globe, CTA currently manages over 100 active client engagements. Africa has 25 to 30 staff distributed in five regional hubs in Cairo, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Dakar/Abidjan, and Abuja/Lagos. The CTA department is expected to continue playing a leading role in mobilizing private capital on behalf of the WBG.

CTA is seeking an Associated Investment Officer or Investment Officer with significant experience to support the Northern Africa and Horn of Africa (NAHA) PPP hub in Cairo, which includes 10 countries: Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Algeria, Djibouti, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.

The Associated Investment Officer or Investment Officer will support the CTA team in business development and execution of mandates, primarily for C3P business line, but also for the CFS’s business line as and when required. The Associated Investment Officer or Investment Officer will report directly to the NAHA Hub leader and the Regional Manager for CTA in Africa.

**Role and Responsibilities**

In relation to C3P’s business line, the IO’s work will involve the implementation of advisory mandates of a variety of types, including business development, interactions with public sector clients, supervising consultant hiring, preparing and delivering presentations, elaboration of financial modeling and overseeing of due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting bidding documents and managing bidding processes, as well as interacting with investors. Duties will include, but will not be limited to:

- Contribute to origination and marketing activities across Northern Africa and Horn of Africa (NAHA), managing marketing activity in assigned countries/strategic areas, including collaborating with other WBG teams to identify opportunities based on country strategies and market creation potential;
- Develop new client relationships and project leads in NAHA;
- Understand the legal and regulatory impediments for private sector participation in NAHA and, as appropriate, work closely with the other parts of the WBG to overcome these;
- Undertake project scoping to assess the feasibility of potential projects, and lead the origination and marketing activities, e.g. proposal preparation, and as appropriate, mandate negotiation with clients, etc.;
- Lead the day-to-day management of project teams working on sell-side PPP mandates, including review of legal and technical outputs, documentation, and financial models;
- Prepare/review memos and documentation for internal approval and consultant procurement processes, as well as managing project budget;
- Develop transaction structure options for PPP projects, provide innovative solutions, and present recommendations to management and clients;
- Participate/Lead meetings with government clients and investors;
- Organize and manage the tendering process of projects, including marketing of projects, prequalification, requests for qualification, project award, and the final negotiation of project agreements leading to commercial close;
- Develop, coach, motivate, and manage junior members of the team;
- Actively participate in the development and implementation of upstream activities in line with IFC 3.0 to create, deepen, and e