Senior Investment Specialist
Join a dynamic team of professionals who are dedicated to investing in the future of Asia.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank that is committed to diversity, transparency, and inclusion. We believe that our strength comes from having a team with diverse skills, experiences, and abilities selected through a merit-based competitive process.
Job Description
As a Senior Investment Specialist, you will be responsible for origination, structuring, and execution of infrastructure-related public-sector transactions contributing towards AIIB's overall lending program. You will support the planning, design, preparation, and implementation of projects/programs that will help meet the rapid growth in the Infrastructure Public Sector in Region 1.
You will work closely with other relevant AIIB departments, assist management in preparing strategies for building the investment pipeline, and assist in implementing these strategies. Training and developing junior team members will be an important responsibility.
Responsibilities:
* Ensure key economic, financial, technical, legal, environmental, and social issues are considered, and mitigants are incorporated in the financing structure and legal documentation during the project preparation.
* Participate in overseeing the implementation of AIIB's investment operations with the objective of enhancing quality and accelerating project implementation, with a focus on delivering results.
* Lead or participate in dialogue with clients, co-financing partners and other stakeholders on strategic issues, and the implementation of AIIB's investment.
* Advise clients on the preparation of technical and feasibility studies and technical design of projects, leading to investment prioritization and cost-effective solutions to investments.
* Conduct project risk assessment of projects and programs, and advise project teams on mitigation strategies to manage such risks.
* Carry out due diligence and institutional assessments on executing agencies, including implementation capacity assessments of project counterparts.
* Support business development activities in public infrastructure sector projects by interacting with clients, governments, other institutions, gathering information on the ground, and building business relationships.
* Undertake regular supervision and implementation support missions and site visits, as needed, to ensure that the projects will meet development objectives and to help the borrowing governments and implementing agencies to address any implementation issues they might be facing.
Requirements:
* Minimum of 8-10 years of relevant working experience, preferably in a multilateral development bank, undertaking economic feasibility studies for transport investments, urban transport development planning and/or traffic management/analysis. Real-life operational and practical experience in the railway sector would be a plus.
* Extensive experience working in transport operations or the management of transport/logistic projects in middle-income and/or developed countries and the introduction of state-of-the-art technology/expertise to countries in Asia, experience in the planning and programming of investment and maintenance works in the transport sector, and institutional reforms would be favorably considered.
* An understanding of the challenges facing the transport sector, familiarity with various modes of transport activities and development in general, and in-depth knowledge of at least one mode of transport.
* Strong organizational and project management skills to conduct the day-to-day management of a large and complex project portfolio.
* Proven experience and depth of expertise in one transport area, or breadth across multiple transport areas, with in-depth knowledge within one area.
* Experience working in or leading teams and/or demonstrated potential qualities for team leadership.
* Proficient oral and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of Russian, French, Spanish or Portuguese would be an advantage.
* Master's degree or equivalent in transport engineering or other transport-related fields, including economics, transport planning, traffic management, and transport engineering (for all modes of transport, such as road, railway, port, aviation, and urban transport), preferred.
Benefits:
* Committed to diversity, transparency, and inclusion.
* Merit-based competitive selection process.
* Equal opportunities for all suitably qualified applicants, regardless of religion, gender, race, disability, sexual orientation or nationality.
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