**Operations Officer, Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services** Job #: req30392 Organization: IFC Sector: Financial Sector Grade: GF Term Duration: 3 years 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment **Location**: Bogota,Colombia; Mexico City,Mexico; Sao Paulo,Brazil Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Spanish and/or Portuguese Closing Date: 11/27/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC Description IFC has embarked on an ambitious new growth strategy (IFC 3.0) to stimulate more investment activity in frontier markets. This strategy calls for generating our own opportunities by proactively working Upstream" to create, deepen, and expand markets and to imagine, design and implement investment projects. It requires taking a systematic approach to understanding the regulatory and sector bottlenecks that prevent the flow of private capital into productive investment in our member countries, and addressing these bottlenecks through World Bank Group engagement on policy reforms and programmatic interventions at the country and sector level. It also requires capacity to leverage WBG programs and projects to develop our own proactive sector interventions and to imagine and design projects even in the absence of reforms. At the same time, IFC has pledged to significantly increase its investments in climate-related projects, to further sustainability and inclusiveness in emerging markets. IFC plans to deliver on these commitments by working with clients to help them develop and implement their own climate strategies and projects. Key areas of focus include the promotion of low-carbon solutions, including renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, green buildings, decarbonization, circularity, and resource efficiency, amongst others. **ROLES AND RESPONSABILITIES**: - Help spot new trends and business models that further the goals of the World Bank and can address development challenges related to climate and resilience, among others, in emerging markets, particularly in the Tourism, Retail and Property space. - Contribute to data analysis and stress-testing of various operating models across sectors to generate ideas for new projects, products and platforms. - Support the identification and assessment of impactful and innovative potential investment opportunities based on country and sector strategies and market creation potential. - Support opportunities that can help decarbonize real sectors at scale and enable more sustainable water use, through green buildings, regenerative agriculture, resource efficiency, and the use of low-carbon construction materials, among others. - Assess and in selected instances, lead the execution and implementation of interventions spanning advisory services and project development. One such intervention is the Green Pathways for Real Estate Institutional Portfolios (GRIP) initiative. - Contribute to the preparation of feasibility studies, climate impact assessments, technical reports, market assessments and implementation plans for new and existing investment opportunities. - Support World Bank and IFC colleagues to analyze sector and regulatory reforms needed to unlock opportunities for private investment. - Manage and process climate-related activities and projects, collaborating closely with investment teams and other relevant internal stakeholders to ensure alignment. - Produce regular reports on the assigned portfolio including supervising progress against project milestones and key performance indicators. Selection Criteria - Master's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Science, Engineering, or another related field. - 4 - 8 years of relevant work experience. - Experience developing solutions for private sector clients in one or more of the real sector verticals in which IFC invests within: commercial, industrial, logistics and residential property; retail; and tourism. - Experience with Real Estate/ REITs financing or underwriting, as well as Real Estate asset portfolio operations, is preferred. - Familiarity with decarbonization and resource efficiency in the real sectors (e.g. green building certifications), as well as technical knowledge regarding resource efficiency, is preferred. - Familiarity with carbon finance and sustainability-linked finance is a plus. - Proven ability to analyze financial statements, conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis, and review financial models for companies, business models, and/or projects. - Appreciation for how policy reforms, advisory interventions, investment, and mobilization can be linked to deliver solutions at a country or regional level. - Ability to support engagements with private sector clients, local and national governments, and other partners to encourage pioneering business and market development. - Experience with project and/or program development, executing against implementation plans, and managing stakeholders. - Experience in monitoring and reporting on a portfolio of projects, programs, and/o