World Bank Senior Investment Officer Jobs 2023 – Nigeria NGO Jobs.
World Bank Nigeria looking for “Senior Investment Officer”.
Applicants with a MBA or equivalent qualification may apply on or before 22 February 2023.
The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for development solutions – providing loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to its members and private businesses. The vision of the World Bank Group (WBG) is the eradication of extreme poverty and the promotion of shared prosperity by fostering income growth of the bottom 40 percent in each country.
World Bank Senior Investment Officer Jobs 2023
The World Bank has published a job vacancy announcement on 07 February 2023 for qualified Nigeria’s to fill in the vacant post of Senior Investment Officer to be based in Abuja, Nigeria.
| Recruiter | World Bank Group |
| Position | Senior Investment Officer |
| Location | Abuja, Nigeria |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | MBA or equivalent qualification |
| Experience Required | A minimum of 10 years |
| Application Deadline | 22 February 2023 |
World Bank Job Vacancy 2023
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Investment Officer will identify new investment opportunities, execute transactions and actively manage portfolio projects for financial institutions based in mainly in Nigeria and Anglophone Africa.
- Client Relationships: Handle client relationships and provide insights into sector developments in client countries to anticipate new investment opportunities and/or performance issues. Coordinate closely with social, environmental, upstream, and advisory colleagues to add value to our clients’ businesses and achieve sustainable development impact.
- Business Development: Source and assess opportunities, identify bankable projects in target regions, particularly less developed countries, and grow and develop new business transactions. Develop (and/or guide teams in the preparation of) pitchbooks and client proposals in support of new business. In addition, the candidate should be ready to work closely with Fintech and Disruptive Technology teams to develop strategic partnerships to expand IFC’s FIG services to include innovative digital technologies.
- Structuring and Negotiation: Structure, negotiate and execute new transactions, portfolio restructurings, reschedulings, capital increases, equity sales, etc.
- Deal Execution: Identify and analyze fundamental competitive strengths and weaknesses of investment opportunities or portfolio companies and identify financial and non‐financial issues, opportunities and risk/reward factors (e.g. business environment, country, and sponsor). Ensure that defined transactional requirements recorded in documentation are executed accordingly.
- Transaction Management: Lead and manage project teams to deliver transactions on a timely and expeditious basis and using best practice standards. Lead team from initiation, due diligence, internal approvals, and processing of debt and equity investment, actively handling key work and directing and coordinating work of other team members, including colleagues from across multiple departments as relevant. Take full responsibility and accountability for transaction-related decisions and relationships.
- Strategy Development: Drafting strategies for sectors, countries, or regions for business development; and develop and execute strategies for complex client engagements with the objective of building a robust investment pipeline.
- Knowledge Sharing: Build IFC’s knowledge base for best practices and participate in knowledge sharing and dissemination. Initiate collaboration and share expertise as a subject matter expert, providing advice, peer review and contribution to knowledge products across WBG to strengthen internal and/or external client solutions.
- Mentoring and coaching: mentor, develop and coach less experienced and/or junior investment and advisory services staff and help build talent and grow skill base of staff.
Qualification & Experience:
- MBA or equivalent qualification.
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience covering the financial sector, preferably in an investment related function.
- Advanced financial, credit and risk evaluation skills, with demonstrated ability to structure and negotiate a variety of complex financial instruments (debt and equity.
- Documented experience identifying, originating and qualifying new business opportunities developing and executing results-driven client engagements.
- Understanding of the FinTech space, including ability to develop strategic partnerships with FinTech companies.
- Sound business judgment and strong problem solving/negotiation skills incl. ability to identify issues and present creative, practical solutions, as well as ability to work effectively on simultaneous projects under time pressure.
- Capacity to work successfully in multicultural teams and across boundaries.
- Demonstrated relationships with the business community including network of top-level contacts in the financial services and investment industries in the sub-region, and governmental authorities, as needed.
- Excellent and demonstrated written, presentation, and business level communications skills in English.
Other Details
- Contract Type: Full Time
- Selection Process: Interview
- Salary: negotiable
- Application Process: Online
How to Apply World Bank Senior Investment Officer Jobs 2023
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The Closing Date: 22 February 2023
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
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| Official Website | www.worldbank.org |
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