IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is recruiting an Investment Officer for its Africa Infrastructure department, which originates, executes and supervises investments in energy, transport, digital, oil and gas, mining, and municipal and environmental infrastructure. The role covers infrastructure sectors across Eastern Africa with a significant equity focus. The position is open-ended staff (international recruitment), based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and reports to the Regional Industry Manager, Infrastructure, Eastern Africa.
Responsibilities
- Source and assess investment opportunities with focus on equity, identify bankable projects, and prepare decision materials.
- Originate, evaluate, structure, negotiate, and close complex debt and equity transactions.
- Lead transaction execution and ensure agreed requirements are completed on time and to standard.
- Manage portfolio projects, restructurings, capital increases, equity sales, and development-results reporting.
- Coordinate with environmental, social, legal, and technical colleagues to deliver sustainable client solutions.
- Develop sector, country, and client strategies that build a robust infrastructure investment pipeline.
- Collaborate across World Bank Group institutions, represent the International Finance Corporation externally, and mentor less-experienced colleagues.
Requirements
- Master's degree in finance or a closely related field.
- At least eight years of relevant experience in development finance, banking, private equity or infrastructure investment.
- Proven record of sourcing, structuring and closing private infrastructure investments, ideally in Africa.
- Strong project-finance, equity-investment, credit-analysis and complex transaction-structuring skills.
- Deep market knowledge in at least one infrastructure sector and understanding of regional challenges.
- Strong business-development, client-relationship, portfolio-supervision and senior-stakeholder engagement skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English (French preferred), strong interpersonal skills and willingness to travel.
- Project finance
- Equity investment
- Credit analysis
- Transaction structuring
- Portfolio supervision
- Business development
