FIG Africa -Project Lead (PL) Ghana
Start Date: April 01, 2025
Express Interest By: 3/31/2025
Duration: 150
Topics: Not Available
Business Function: Not Available
Skills:
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, and credibly represent IFC with clients and stakeholders, including at the senior management level.;
- Strong presentation skills, with ability to represent complex information in a synthetic manner using Microsoft Office tools.;
- Strong organizational skills with an ability to work under time pressure, in unstructured situations and in case of unexpected events and agility to respond to shifts in client priorities while ensuring delivery.;
- Ability to implement innovative solutions and challenge the status quo to build the business.;
- Good team-focused attitude, strong sense of accountability and capacity to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary environment and work independently within tight deadlines.;
- Ability to take initiative and pursue leads, including under limited supervision;
Language Skills: English,French,
Assignment Location: Ghana
Institution: IFC
VPU: AFR
Contact Person: Sokhna Astou Khady Fall (sfall@ifc.org)
Task Description: Duties/Responsibilities
The STCs will play an instrumental role in helping FIG US AS deliver its targets, especially those related to effective project delivery and management and contributing to the US AS team’s knowledge management initiatives. He/she will support the Agri-Finance Practice to manage US AS engagements with FIG clients and work to develop new client engagements in the region. His/her specific responsibilities in each of these areas are as follows: Specific roles and responsibilities include:
Project Design and Origination
- Activities:
- Level of Effort: 20%
- Contribute to drafting project proposals, agri country strategies and other approval documentation (e.g., concept notes, implementation plans, budgets, legal agreements as required)
- Requesting and obtaining relevant information from the client and other key parties/stakeholders and coordinating with client/stakeholders on information sharing.
- Leading internal processing for new and existing projects, following IFC’s approval processes for advisory services.
Project Management
- Activities
- Ensure internal reporting requirements are met in a timely manner – i.e., KPIs tracking, Project Supervision Reporting, Development Impact indicators reporting, budgeting, donor reporting.
- Ensure timely implementation and completion of project activities. Monitor and review project implementation, scope of work and resources deployed, to ensure project qualitative and quantitative milestones are achieved, and corrective actions taken when necessary.
- Planning and coordination of team missions to deliver project activities. ep4h9J5 BIpnb
- Client coordination: manage and maintain client relations through open and regular communications to assess satisfaction and anticipate and respond to client needs.
- Coordinate with IFC FIG investment team on progress and performance of related investment projects, providing support directly to the investment team as required to ensure the success of the project, and identifying areas for complementary advisory support.
- Level of Effort: 40%
Technical Assistance
- Activities:
- As required, provide support on direct technical assistance to the client, which may include designing business models/plans, pilot design, supporting scale-up designs, designing financial models, leading capacity building workshops
- Design and draft power point presentations to support project implementation
- Level of Effort: 15%
Dissemination and Support
- Activities:
- Level of Effort: 10%
- Contribute to efforts to capture, develop, and disseminate information and knowledge, best practices, solutions and project delivery tools relating to agri-finance projects in the region
- Contribute to knowledge management efforts for the Africa Agriculture Accelerator Platform
Business Development and Pipeline Management
- Activities:
- Level of Effort: 15%
- Contribute to business development efforts for new Agri-finance advisory projects.
- Engage regularly with related parties, public and private actors, to generate new business ideas to support the quality and relevance of IFC’s project proposals and strategies in Agri-financing in Nigeria or Ghana.
- Contribute to business development efforts for new CnC projects, particularly those involving AgTech.
- Work closely with IFC FIG investment team to identify and pursue potential investment opportunities in Agri Finance in the West Africa region, based on early leads and current Advisory engagements.
More Information
- Job City Ghana, Nigeria
