Associate Investment Officer - Metals & Minerals

World Bank Group•Washington, DC

19h•Onsite

About The Position

At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure The Knowledge Bank’s Metals and Minerals Solutions and Innovation team (KIMSI) is responsible for ensuring that the right mix of best practice, investment and advisory solutions are made available to our clients and WBG operational teams in the Metals and Minerals sectors. Our responsibilities include client relationship management, business growth through deal origination and execution, and portfolio supervision of complex projects.

Requirements

MBA or equivalent qualification
4-5 years of experience with a development finance institution (DFI), an international financial institution, a private equity firm or a development organization with tasks related to financing infrastructure projects in emerging markets
Proven track-record of successfully sourcing, structuring and closing investments in the metals and minerals sector
Knowledge of the other various infra core sectors (power, transportation, utilities) will be a plus; equity investment and debt project finance experience is essential
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Strong credit skills
Demonstrated by track record and ability to focus on clients’ needs effectively
Willingness to travel
Financial skills: demonstrated ability to structure a variety of complex financial instruments (debt and equity) and financial modeling
Strong record of portfolio management of complex projects
Sound business judgment in identifying potential business partners
Ability to interact directly and independently with the management of potential clients, financial and technical partners as well as government officials.
Strong inter-personal skills, ability to interact effectively with clients and colleagues from various cultural backgrounds
Proven ability to mentor junior investment staff such as investment analysts
Highly motivated, committed to highest ethical standards
Genuine commitment to sustainable development

Nice To Haves

Preferred Language(s): Spanish, French

Responsibilities

Work with senior team members to identify, build and maintain strong relationships with strategic mining clients as well as banking and multilateral partners globally and help develop a strong pipeline of good quality investment opportunities.
Work closely with other members of the IFC Metals & Minerals team, regional infrastructure teams, country managers and WBG officers to develop the Metals & Minerals pipeline, strengthen portfolio supervision and explore mining-related infrastructure opportunities.
Collaborate with regional teams in developing sector and/or regional strategies and support related policy advisory or pre-investment (“upstream”) work.
Review and analyze business opportunities, synthesize information into internal reports for decision making purposes.
Work with senior team members to help evaluate, structure, negotiate, and close new transactions, supervise portfolio projects, portfolio restructurings, capital increases, equity sales, etc. including working on financial models with investment analysts and preparing investment review documents, credit memorandum etc.
Use strong negotiation skills to develop solutions and overcome impasses in straightforward and complex transactions and portfolio management.
Coordinate closely with social, environmental, and technical assistance colleagues to add value to our clients' businesses, find pragmatic solutions to the specific sector challenges, and achieve sustainable development impact.
Contribute to dissemination of knowledge about mining within the broader infrastructure team via knowledge pieces, contribution to sector strategies, presentations, case studies, etc.
Active participation in cross-functional project teams, mentor and develop analysts in the team.