Job Opportunity for E T Consultant at World Bank in Mumbai

IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2021, IFC committed a record $31.5 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit www.ifc.org

IFC has embarked on an ambitious new growth strategy (IFC 3.0) to stimulate more investment activity, especially in Low Income Countries and Fragile and Conflict affected Situations. This strategy calls for generating our own opportunities by proactively working “Upstream” of a transaction to imagine, design and implement investment projects and transformational transactions. It also requires IFC to create, deepen, and expand markets including through engagement across the World Bank Group on policy reforms to unlock sector bottlenecks that prevent the flow of private capital into productive investment.

IFC is seeking E T Consultant in the Asia Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services (“MAS”) industry group to support Advisory initiatives in South Asia and East-Asia Pacific. The candidate will be working to support effective and accelerated implementation of the decarbonization programmes as well as identify new investment and investment-linked advisory opportunities in the “real sector” of the economy – which primarily include manufacturing industries and agri business in the current context., 

Reporting Lines: The position reports to Tuyen D. Nguyen (Principal Operations Officer; Head of MAS, Manufacturing Advisory, Asia) and Ernest Bethe (Principal Operations Officer; Head of MAS, Agri advisory, Asia)

Duties and Accountabilities: 

The E T Consultant will support in business development activities and implementation of South Asia – Industrial / Agri-food Decarbonization project. 

Specific Duties and Accountabilities include, but are not limited to, supporting MAS Advisory in business development as well as programme implementation and monitoring activities:
Business Development 

• Engage with the market to identify and assess manufacturing/ industrial and agri-business clients in order to develop decarbonization/ circular projects that ultimately support sizeable investment and financing opportunities for IFC, especially climate financing

• Develop relationships with private-sector clients and other external stakeholders and assist team members in managing and maintaining client and stakeholder relationships while growing the business

• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders including the MAS Investment and Upstream teams working on business and project development and World Bank teams performing country-level analytics and policy/regulatory research and analysis

• Actively participate within an active network of industry stakeholders to keep updated on developing market drivers and trends, including technology and policy developments

Support for the South Asia – Industrial/ Agri-food Decarbonization programme

Support Program Manager(s) in initiating and accelerating the activities outlined under Industrial and Agri-food Decarbonization programmes, i.e., advising client on strategic areas of focus, developing the Implementation Plans (IPs) and ensuring quality of deliverables.

• Lead all firm level activities including onboarding new clients, coordinating/following up with the client coordinators, local and international consultants/ consulting firms and tracking progress and reporting

• Assist in developing donor funding proposal and other program presentations and reporting as required by IFC and donor partners 

• Support developing program-specific client engagement and consultant procurement documents (Cooperation Agreements, consultants Terms of Reference, etc.) working with IFC legal team and other staff 

• Coordinate with the MAS Global advisory staff (both manufacturing and agri) working on similar projects in other regions to leverage experience/expertise/ use of tools and ensure consistency and quality of delivery 

• Interface with client management and various internal and external actors on training/ capacity building, awareness generation and knowledge management activities 

• Work closely with global and regional Results Management teams to track and report program results against development goals/other performance indicators in the approved implementation plan; identify areas that need refocusing of activities to meet program targets

• Support market outreach and program promotion activities by working with communications team both regionally and globally.

Selection Criteria

• Masters or equivalent professional degree in relevant engineering, environmental, agribusiness, business, economics, or other technical discipline  

• At least 7-10 years of relevant experience in climate change, decarbonization and circular economy, business and sustainability consultancy, investment, with a private-sector focus on manufacturing and agri-business (including agri supply-chain and small holder farmers) sector

• Understanding of investments and financing (debt and equity, project, and corporate finance) issues and financial instruments related to manufacturing and agri-business value chain

• Familiar with climate change (mitigation and adaptation), decarbonization and, sustainability (e.g., water, energy, waste) issues, trends, and their implications for private sector, regionally and internationally

• Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically, and rapidly analyze diverse program information under changing market conditions accompanied with good MS Excel and data analysis skills 

• Demonstrated ability to identify, evaluate and quantity firm-level opportunities and potential to achieve decarbonization and/ or sustainable transition

• Strong understanding and practical experience related to carbon accounting tools and methodologies 

• Understands project management methodologies and applies them to own takes and objective settings and M&E frameworks 

• Experience in managing donors, consultant, technology vendors, and other external services providers to effectively implement multiple program tasks 

• Strong power point skills and ability to create clear and concise presentations and pitch books to articulate an idea and concept to clients and internal audiences

• Takes responsibility to ensure task management, quality, meet deadlines and consistency of deliverables 

• Good organization skills and attention to detail; strong presentation and report writing skills, and experience in working in multi-disciplinary teams

• Demonstrated ability to solicit feedback and change behaviors accordingly 

• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment 

• Excellent fluency in spoken and written English and spoken Hindi will be an advantage.