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Operations Officer, Financial Inclusion Consulting, LAC Region –  Bogota, Sao Paulo,  Mexico City

Job #: req31115

Organization: IFC

Sector: Financial Sector

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Bogota,Colombia, Mexico, Sao Paulo

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Spanish and/or Portuguese

Closing Date: 1/24/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the biggest world improvement establishment targeted on the non-public sector in rising markets. We work in additional than 100 nations, utilizing our capital, experience, and affect to create markets and alternatives. Our mission is to leverage the facility of the non-public sector to finish excessive poverty and increase shared prosperity on a livable planet.

IFC has launched into an formidable new progress technique to stimulate extra funding exercise, particularly in Low Income Countries (LICs) and Fragile and Conflict affected Situations (FCS). This technique calls for producing our personal alternatives by proactively working “Upstream” to create, deepen, and increase markets and to think about, design and implement funding tasks. It requires taking a scientific strategy to understanding the regulatory and sector bottlenecks that stop the move of personal capital into productive funding in our member nations, and addressing these bottlenecks via World Bank Group engagement on coverage reforms and programmatic interventions on the nation and sector degree. It additionally requires capability to leverage WBG applications and tasks to develop our personal proactive sector interventions and to think about and design tasks even within the absence of reforms.

The Financial Institutions Group (FIG) is without doubt one of the main business teams at IFC, accountable for managing roughly 40% of IFC’s total enterprise by way of quantity and capital in danger. FIG engages in a variety of sub-sectors together with Microfinance, SME, Gender, Climate, Insurance, Capital Markets, Housing, Distressed Assets, and different areas, with each funding and advisory companies delivered to IFC’s shoppers via IFC’s world community.

The FIG Upstream/Advisory Unit seeks to create alternatives for new non-public sector led investments within the area by growing a pipeline of funding-prepared alternatives made potential utilizing distinct instruments and interventions, together with funding structuring, advisory and coverage reform. The goal of the unit might be to boost the subsequent technology of FIG investments throughout precedence sectors within the area.

IFC is in search of an Upstream and Advisory Operations Officer for its Financial Institutions Group in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) primarily based in both Bogota, Colombia, Sao Paulo, Brazil or Mexico City, Mexico.

Roles and Responsibilities

In attaining its monetary inclusion goals FIG is recruiting for an Operations Officer (OO) to assist FIG Upstream Advisory Services in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) area to scale up its monetary inclusion consulting tasks with monetary intermediaries. Specially, the OO will assist the FIG US/AS group to associate with related monetary intermediaries to: (i) Develop FIG’s increasing enterprise operations for improved monetary inclusion; and (ii) assist within the supply of advisory and upstream tasks.

The OO will work with the FIG group to establish new monetary inclusion upstream and advisory enterprise alternatives which might be consistent with IFC’s goals and implement these tasks. This contains:

• Work with AS/US regional employees to develop advisory companies alternatives with key companions within the area; together with growing challenge proposals/shopper pitches; and assembly with potential shoppers and different market stakeholders to debate enterprise alternatives
• Apply human-centered methodologies to determine the desirability of latest enterprise ideas
• Conduct value determinations and/or workshops as part of enterprise improvement or advisory challenge design
• Design tasks that tackle key shoppers’ wants, in a sustainable manner, aiming for capability constructing and leveraging present shopper assets;
• Lead and / or assist the implementation of (proposed) suggestions and oversee implementation of companies/ options/ suggestions to shoppers, making certain total the standard management consistent with company monitoring and analysis necessities. Tasks may embrace: market and buyer analysis; enterprise mannequin improvement; and worth proposition improvement.
• Work/ work together carefully with IFC’s AS/US employees to construct their technical capability for the supply of tasks
• Contribute to IFC’s monetary inclusion data administration and studying agenda

Selection Criteria

Experience in related area

• 7 years’ expertise administration consulting to monetary establishments or banking in rising markets; with confirmed monitor document within the area of Financial Inclusion – comparable to micro, small and medium enterprise finance, and/or further segments as gender, forcibly displaced inhabitants
• Experience in serving to corporations to develop new merchandise/ideas/enterprise fashions; piloting, measuring success and studying classes from them for future roll-out plans; ejrwX7R DK0aQY
• Master’s diploma in enterprise, Finance, Economics, or associated fields is most well-liked;
• Solid understanding of the developments in digital monetary companies contemplating completely different gamers;
• Strong challenge administration, gross sales and shopper relationship administration expertise, together with the flexibility to develop and preserve mutually useful stakeholder relationships and guarantee well timed and acceptable comply with-up;
• Highly motivated, energetic, group participant with glorious interpersonal expertise and shopper service expertise with the flexibility to multi-job, take care of conflicting priorities and ship prime quality work on schedule;
• Ability to speak concepts clearly and confidently, and credibly characterize IFC with shoppers and

stakeholders, together with on the senior govt degree;

• Sound enterprise judgment and drawback fixing, negotiation and industrial expertise;
• Ability to work together straight and independently with the administration of potential shoppers and of economic and technical companions;
• Solid folks administration and organizational expertise;
• Ability to reply to conditions of excessive demand and stress in a well timed method;
• Willingness to journey as wanted
• Genuine dedication to sustainable improvement

Language expertise:

• Ability to work successfully in English is crucial; Spanish and/or Portuguese is crucial.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group affords complete advantages, together with a retirement plan; medical, life and incapacity insurance coverage; and paid depart, together with parental depart, in addition to cheap lodging for people with disabilities.

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