Start Date: April 01, 2025
Express Interest By: 3/26/2025
Duration: 150
Topics: Not Available
Business Function: Not Available
Skills:
- Master’s degree in finance, Business, Law or Economics or equivalent professional qualification;
- At least 3-5 years of relevant experience working with financial institutions, consulting firms, and/or international organizations;
- Strong knowledge of MSME business environment;
- Demonstrate some technical capability and professional knowledge of the financial sector (ideally SME Finance,
- Risk management, Agriculture Finance, and/or Digital Finance).;
- International exposure and experience working in emerging market contexts is a plus.;
- Fluency in English & French, both spoken and written;
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, particularly power point and excel.;
- Strong communicator, ability to convey ideas clearly, confidently and properly with clients.;
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Language Skills: English,French,
Assignment Location: Cameroon
Institution: IFC
VPU: FIG Upstream and Advisory
Contact Person: Kevin Yao Michel Lecourbe (klecourbe@ifc.org)
Task Description: Scope of Work
The consultant will support project teams in the preparation, administration and supervision of client projects, working in close collaboration with Project Leads (PLs) and senior specialists.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: I. Business Development Support
- Perform desk research with respect to the market landscape across assigned countries in Central Africa; keep abreast of market intelligence and developments regionally and globally; and prepare initial reports with findings, graphs, etc.
- Support project teams to organize and manage scoping and diagnostic missions, prepare meeting minutes, and conduct mission follow-up as needed.
- Support the team in developing pitches and proposals for clients (including developing budgets, pricing and costing), partners or prospects.
- Portfolio Management Support
Support several FIG US/AS projects:
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- Contribute to the design of projects, and the drafting and processing of project documentation in line with established IFC procedures (Concept Notes, Project Implementation Plans, Funding Requests, Legal Agreements etc.)
- Support implementation of the projects and assist in the preparation of project supervision and completion reports.
- Monitor project timelines, budget and key performance indicators against targets, and ensure updates are completed within the allowable timeframe.
- Assist with data collection for project monitoring, ensure adequate data quality in all project documents and provide supplementary data gathering support for evaluations.
- Assist in identifying, selecting and procuring appropriate short-term consultants/firms for advisory engagements and develop TORs.
- Manage interface with finance team on timely collection of client fees in line with legal agreements and submission of consultant invoices to ensure accurate financial reporting within a quarterly period.
- Manage and monitor allocation of consultant, staff time, and other project costs against available budget and charge codes; and track spend against budget on a monthly basis.
- Assist in planning, designing and organizing conferences, trainings, workshops and seminars.
- Collaborate with the project team and senior consultants to carry out specific tasks including desk reviews, data analysis, financial projections, preparation of notes, taking minutes of meetings, writing memoranda, preparation of briefs and presentations.
- Work in partnership with Projects Leaders (PLs) and the donor relations team to prepare initial drafts of semi-annual donor reports as per IFC governance.
- Assist with the production and enhancement of templates and standardized solutions.
- Work with project teams on capturing and documenting lessons learned from projects in the region, and review and add inputs to regional knowledge pieces.
- Contribute to aggregate level project reporting.
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