Senior Investment Officer

**Senior Investment Officer**

**Job #**:

- req30272**Organization**:

- IFC**Sector**:

- Agribusiness**Grade**:

- GG**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- International Recruitment**Location**:

- Jakarta,Indonesia; Ho Chi Minh City,Viet Nam**Required Language(s)**:

- English**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 11/20/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet.

The Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services (MAS) Industry Group plays a key role in supporting IFC's strategic priorities, covering investments in the global manufacturing and services, agribusiness, health, and education sectors. MAS sectors play a critical role in providing goods and services to consumers, addressing core needs, creating jobs, contributing to government revenues, and stimulating growth. In IFC's client countries, these sectors can account for as much as 80% of overall economic activity and up to 90% of employment activity, particularly in the poorest countries.

**Roles and Responsibilities**

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***- Develop long-term relationships with key clients and other stakeholders (e.g., government officials, regulators) at the working level to identify and act on opportunities for repeat business and engage effectively with other syndicate lenders at the working level
- Collaborate with clients, including in FCS countries, to identify how IFC can add more value to their company and improve the quality of IFC's investment
- Engage in discussions with investment officers to gather insights on essential topics and identify areas where lessons learned could improve business development and transaction structuring.
- Supervise the gathering of lessons learned on essential topics across the portfolio, connect trends from different areas of the portfolio, and make recommendations on how these could improve business development and transaction structuring
- Gather market intelligence to stay informed of sector and country trends that could broadly impact a country or subsector portfolio
- Lead quarterly assessments of ratings, loan loss reserves, or valuations for country, region, or sector portfolio; and conduct quality control over work performed by analysts and junior investment officers
- Analyze strategically important portfolio trends to identify where they are most concentrated and the contributing factors. Take a leadership role in disusing findings and their implications at review meetings
- Negotiate straightforward waivers, amendments, and rescheduling; prepare official restructuring memos for approval.
- Perform complex credit risk rating assessments, covenant compliance reviews, and development impact assessments. Review the quality of portfolio review work performed by more junior staff.
- Oversee the portfolio management work of analysts and investment officers for the assigned portfolio, identifying gaps and creating a macro view of the financial, compliance, and risk status of the portfolio, anticipating emerging risks

**Selection Criteria**
- Capacity to understand, enable, and participate in market creation opportunities for multiple countries by demonstrating long-term perspective, open-mindedness, persistence, innovation, and ability to leverage all available tools (including de-risking tools); good understanding of the roles and value-add of IFC and WBG in new markets
- Understanding of relevant country strategies and obstacles for achieving them
- Must have a reputation for listening carefully to clients and stakeholders and asking targeted questions to understand their needs and determine the viability of a business opportunity
- Ability to build long-term engagement with clients and credibility by demonstrating knowledge of their business, sector, and culture; maintain an ongoing dialogue on their business needs, operations, strategies, and opportunities for strategically aligned business deals
- Ability to maintain client engagement during the portfolio stage to identify growth opportunities, address emerging problems, and focus on actions that promote sustainability and ensure that overall development impact objectives are met
- Build and maintain extensive networks in sectors, countries, and regions to bring new engagements and business opportunities.
- IFC/WBG: Ability to interact effectively with working-level WBG staff and participate in collaborative interventions or /projects that enable private sector investment by exercising sensitivity to differences in corporate cultures, priorities, and operating practices and /requirements
- Public Sector: Ability to participate and constructivel