Senior Investment Officer – Waste & Subnational
- Organization
- IFC
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Deadline for Applications
- 07/04/2025
- Where to Apply
- https://worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/33490?c=worldbankgroup&sq=req33490&referralToken=QOz4VYxLNUi8V6s4c9M7LA&cid=IFC_LI_IFC_EN_EXT
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 Global Municipal & Environmental Infrastructure (CNGME) unit, in collaboration with the regional industry groups, is responsible for IFC’s municipal and environmental infrastructure business, which includes investments supporting municipalities and public utilities, and private water and waste management companies. Investments in each of these sub-sectors is supported by platforms that develop and provide advisory products, technical assistance and capacity building support to our clients.
It is an exciting time for the unit with innovative models of One World Bank Group collaboration being piloted or being championed at the global and regional levels across each of the sub-sectors covered by the unit. The ambition of the unit is to ensure that interventions are driven by client needs and are balance sheet agnostic.
With this background, CNGME is looking to recruit a Senior Investment Officer, to contribute to its priorities related to sector strategy and expertise, thought leadership and knowledge sharing, market creation and innovation, and to support regional teams in business development, client relationship management, transaction processing, and program delivery. While mostly supporting the Waste & Circularity team, the candidate will also contribute to similar efforts across the unit in water and municipal sectors. The position will be based in Washington DC.
Duties and Accountabilities:
• Work closely with the global sector lead, regional leads and technical specialists to support business development, including through active involvement in discussions with new and existing clients.
• Spearhead collaboration within the World Bank Group to identify innovative ways to ensure that clients benefit from the full range of investment and advisory products that the World Bank Group has to offer. In particular, ensuring that sector and regulatory reforms are coordinated with opportunities for non-sovereign guaranteed public and private investment.
• Contribute substantively to the unit’s Knowledge for Impact program, through relevant knowledge products to support regional teams in business development and processing, and to support clients in managing and growing their business.
• Play a senior role in the development and implementation of the unit’s business strategy; maintain a strong grasp of pivotal areas in urban and environmental infrastructure, including market & regulatory trends and innovations.
• Ensure effective IFC sectoral thought leadership and external branding, and play leadership roles in global conferences and events.
• Provide support to regional teams on upstream and mainstream transactions, including providing input on transactions as per Global’s formal role across the project cycle.
• Contribute to execution of select investment transactions, including origination and processing, as a member of the project team (Team Lead).
• Support the delivery and operational management of global and regional upstream / advisory projects related to Municipal & Environmental Infrastructure, such as the Circularity Plus, Utilities for Climate (U4C) and Cities initiatives.
• Overall, the candidate is expected to share time and effort across: (i) global knowledge for impact; (ii) sector work (collaboration across the WBG, market intelligence, strategies, client relationship management, business development, etc.); (iii) regional upstream and mainstream projects oversight and (v) transaction support and processing.
