Primary Responsibilities
Lead a team of investment professionals, maintaining responsibility for hiring, capacity building, performance management, and general team leadership duties
Lead business development across multiple channels, including private commercial opportunities and government- / donor-sponsored opportunities
Provide continuous client coverage of private capital investors, development finance institutions (DFIs), corporates ranging from SMEs to MNCs, and other relevant organizations in order to proactively identify advisory opportunities
Provide deal and project leadership and execution oversight to a wide range of transaction-related advisory engagements:
Investment target identification and screening
Use conventional and unconventional channels to identify and rigorously assess investment opportunities
For targets that are not yet investment-ready, be able to concisely map out paths to investability and resources required to achieve investability
Be able to credibly articulate investment opportunities’ social and environmental impact narratives
Investor identification and relationship building
Understand investor mandates, criteria, preferences, and existing portfolios
Understand investor appetite to work with DFIs or other development-oriented actors
Manage investor relationships
Detailed commercial due diligence/vendor due diligence
Directly conduct or facilitate investor (‘buy-side’) commercial due diligence
Compile and curate a comprehensive virtual data room
Robust, multi-faceted corporate and project finance models, including valuations of private companies using rigorous, defensible methodologies
Draft investment memoranda and teasers, author and update sophisticated financial models
Recommendations on optimal transaction structures based upon near-, medium- and long-term strategic objectives and capitalization parameters, available instruments, and investor preferences
Draft detailed illustrative term sheets for debt and equity deals, and carbon finance
Market assessment and ongoing market analysis
Conduct macroeconomic and geopolitical market assessments
Provide sector analysis of priority areas for investment
Manage relationships with key CrossBoundary clients, such as USAID; provide strategic inputs to program design and oversee mandate execution and reporting
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or another advanced degree strongly desired
5+ years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or similar
Experience in natural capital, conservation, forestry, agriculture, or another relevant sector
Knowledge of carbon markets, with experience developing carbon projects strongly preferred
Track record of successfully developing new business opportunities and strategic partnerships
Experience living and/or working in developing countries
Demonstrated management skills; leading teams to results in challenging circumstances
Leadership skills; preferably in a fast-moving and entrepreneurial environments
Strong financial services-focused quantitative skills and accounting fluency, to include corporate finance, company valuation, comprehension of debt and equity capital markets
Excellent analytical ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically, and then design and implement solutions that focus on the core issues
Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments
Excellent presentation skills; ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
Experience working with a range of stakeholders (including private equity firms, Development Finance Institutions, and development agencies) to support investments in high impact sectors
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