Investment Officer - Infrastructure & Natural Resources
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Job #: |
req39313 |
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Organization: |
IFC |
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Sector: |
Investment |
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Grade: |
GG |
| Term Duration: | Open-Ended Staff (OPEN-OP) |
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Recruitment Type: |
Local Recruitment |
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Location: |
Singapore,Singapore |
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Required Language(s): |
English |
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Preferred Language(s): |
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Closing Date: |
11/13/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC |
Description
At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of 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. In fiscal year 2026, IFC committed a record $105.6 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
IFC is recruiting an Investment Officer to be based in Singapore as part of the Infrastructure and Natural Resources (INR) team in Asia. This role requires strong and demonstrated technical skills in sourcing, structuring, negotiating, and executing investment transactions and in portfolio management. She/he will report to the IFC Regional Industry Director (RID), INR.
The (INR) sector is one of IFC’s key strategic priorities, covering diverse sectors including energy, transport, digital and telecom and sub-national finance. The team delivers financial and technical support to clients in the energy, transport, digital & telecom, municipal & environmental infrastructure, and mining sectors, from IFC’s own balance sheet and through mobilization of other capital. The Department also seeks to maintain IFC, as part of the World Bank Group, at the cutting-edge of helping member countries find solutions to new and emerging infrastructure and natural resource issues.
IFC's priorities in Asia for INR are: (i) grow the business in the region and manage the portfolio to achieve strong profitability and impact; (ii) build new and nurture existing client relationships to make IFC the preferred partner; (iii) support local companies, while improving transparency and corporate governance; (iv) catalyze foreign investment, including mobilizing B loans and parallel loans; (v) introduce and develop new financial products; (vi) build long-term partnerships with strong regional players and (vii) develop client, sector and country-level solutions that can be scaled and replicated.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The candidate will be based in Singapore and is expected to play a key role at all material stages of the IFC transaction cycle. The responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Work in the Director’s Front office and support the processing of INR mainstream and upstream program delivery.
• Contribute to originating, executing and managing investment transactions, across the capital structure (equity, mezzanine, or senior debt), that maximize development impact, profitability as well as capital mobilization.
• Develop a strong pipeline of good quality investment opportunities through proactive origination/business development and developing and employing sector/country knowledge.
• Lead transactions and/or teams to evaluate, structure, negotiate, and close new transactions, portfolio restructurings, rescheduling, capital increases, equity sales, as necessary, applying knowledge of policy and procedures.
• Clearly and succinctly present and communicate (verbal and written) credit analysis, investment proposals and other documents and presentations.
• Lead negotiation and legal documentation process; use strong negotiation skills to develop solutions and overcome impasses in straightforward and complex transactions.
• Provide high-quality client service throughout the project cycle from transaction sourcing and processing to supervision.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, businesses, banking and multilateral partners and government officials to further develop the sector and to develop specific investment opportunities.
• Mentor junior staff members and support their professional development and growth within the organization.
• Coordinate closely with social, environmental, governance, and technical assistance colleagues to add value to our clients' businesses, find pragmatic solutions to the specific sector challenges, and achieve sustainable development impact.
• Work closely and coordinate with Global Industry teams, Country Managers and Officers, World Bank and MIGA colleagues to develop client, country and sector strategies.
Selection Criteria
• MBA or equivalent degree with at least 10 years of relevant professional experience in investment, corporate banking, project finance, infrastructure project development, and/or equity investing.
• Demonstrated experience and analytical skills in developing and assessing investment opportunities, in structuring and negotiating deals as well as financing agreements, and in identifying and mitigating financial and other risks in a transaction.
• Deep understanding of IFC operations and New Business and Portfolio procedures with an ability to innovate / think outside the box to troubleshoot problem situations.
• Solid experience in processing multiple IFC operations successfully with strong performance assessment track record.
• Relevant business development, investment transaction processing and portfolio management experience in the infrastructure sector, including the gas sector, and in the South Asia region and more broadly in Asia Pacific.
• Capacity to understand and enable transaction opportunities by demonstrating long-term perspective, open-mindedness, persistence, innovation, and ability to leverage available tools; good understanding of the roles and value-add of IFC and WBG.
• Ability to build long-term relationship and credibility with clients by demonstrating knowledge of their business, sector, and culture; maintain an ongoing dialogue on their business needs, operations, and strategies as well as opportunities for strategically aligned business deals and portfolio management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill. Ability to describe complex issues, approaches, and lessons in a manner that is relevant and understandable to clients/stakeholders.
• Ability to lead, supervise and work as a team in business development, processing, and portfolio management by providing technical guidance, fostering team spirit, and effectively use talents of staff.
• Ability to guide, advise, mentor, and coach junior staff and peers to develop and broaden their scope of skills, including providing on-the-job learning opportunities.
• Integrate divergent viewpoints of multiple external and internal stakeholders into a coherent project, program, or strategy.
• Proactively seeks input from peers and leaders to deliver objectives and identify where to eliminate delivery roadblocks.
• Genuine commitment to sustainable development.
• Willingness to travel extensively and geographic flexibility.
• Ability to use commercially available LLM tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot for research, analysis, and drafting in Investment & Upstream, validate outputs against primary sources, and remain accountable for recommendations.
Note: This internal requisition is open to WBG and IMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/ temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case an external candidate applies, their application will not be considered.
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