Senior Country Officer - Sao Paulo, Brasil - IFC Systems Corporation

IFC Systems Corporation

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Sao Paulo, Brasil

há 2 semanas

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Ana Silva

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Descrição

Senior Country Officer

Job #:

- req26795
Organization:

IFC
Sector:
Financial Sector
Grade:
GG
Term Duration:
3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment
Location:
Sao Paulo,Brazil
Required Language(s):
English, Portuguese
Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:

4/8/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description

The IFC South America Region is seeking an experienced professional as Senior Country Officer to join the team to help build IFC's activities across all industries in Brazil.

The position will be based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and will report to the Regional Director for South America.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coordinate the development of IFC's strategy in Brazil.
Develop IFC's brand and overall communication strategy.
Lead integrated delivery of investment and advisory services to create new market opportunities.
Establish and maintain working level relationships across IFC, with WBG counterparts, and with private sector clients, government officers and other relevant stakeholders to advance IFC's development mandate and develop business opportunities.
Provide input and guidance to the development of IFC's country strategy and provide substantive input to country diagnostics and WBG strategy documents.
Participate in the design of approaches and interventions to create upstream markets and the identification of needed market and regulatory reforms.
Oversee integration and delivery of IFC's investment and advisory activities in Brazil to ensure needs of clients and objectives of IFC strategies are met.
Identify, evaluate and support complex investments and sector projects, by providing critical insights on the country context and the political economy.
Work on pioneering approaches.
Share accountability for the quality and performance of IFC's portfolio in Brazil.
Oversee or supervise assigned staff and consultants.
Develop assigned staff and members of the broader team through mentoring, coaching, and providing onthejob learning opportunities.
Ensure quality control of work products.
Ensure efficient and effective use of resources.

Selection Criteria

Master's degree in a related field and at least 812 years of relevant experience. Related fields of education include business, finance, or economics.
Relevant experience could include a proven track record in business consulting, investment banking, or experience with a multilateral organization.
Indepth understanding of how IFC works, and its strategies and priorities.
Ability to initiate collaborative efforts with WBG organizations to leverage its products and instruments.
Ability to identify opportunities for collaboration on high value projects and recognize potential COIs based on a good understanding of WBG, IFC (investment and advisory), and WBG products and project requirements.
Ability to initiate and guide collaborative efforts with WBG organizations to leverage its products and instruments.
Capacity to understand, enable, and participate in market creation opportunities and interventions to strengthen investment climate by demonstrating longterm perspective, open mindedness, persistence, and good understanding of IFC/WBG roles and valueadd in new markets.
Ability to participate and constructively contribute in meetings with government officials on constraints to private sector investment.
Ability to understand the political context and mindset of government officials.
Capacity to identify and promote specific interventions to remove or mitigate market creation barriers in sectors and geographies using approaches that go beyond IFC, business line, or industry to enable private sector investment.
Sufficient analytical, financial, credit, integrity assessment, and business skills as well as strategic perspective to intuitively recognize project viability, bankability, and expected sustainable development impact early on, identify portfolio management vulnerabilities, and determine best approaches for managing complex transaction and portfolio risks.
Industry/

Sector Knowledge:

Broad knowledge of Brazil's key sectors and industries, including their viability for market growth, and market challenges as well as implications of environmental and social sustainability issues, and how sector dynamics may evolve.

Ability to tap into and leverage resources with expertise in sectors and industries, including risks, market dynamics, and regulatory structures. Able to read and anticipate shifts in market trends and the implications for IFC's current and future business.
Country Knowledge: Demonstrated extensive knowledge of Brazil including its politics, history, social dynamics, culture, economics, local markets, and regulatory framework.
Developing and

Selling Solutions:
Demonstrated success as a key influencer in bringing integrated solutions to concept review stage where there are si