ET Consultant - Public Private Partnership, Brazil

ET Consultant - Public Private Partnership, Brazil Job #: req34741 Organization: IFC Sector: Investment Grade: EC2 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Bogota,Colombia Required Language(s): English, Spanish Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 11/13/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.
The International Finance Corporation (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 2025, IFC committed a record $71.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging private sector solutions, and mobilizing private capital to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. For more information, visit: https://www.ifc.org
IFC’s Public-Private Partnership Transactions Advisory department (CTA) provides financial advisory services to client governments with the purpose to increase access to basic infrastructure and social services by facilitating private investments in these sectors. Specifically, the team acts as Lead Transaction Advisor to national and subnational governments to structure and implement public-private partnerships (PPP) transactions across all infrastructure sectors, e.g. power, water, transportation, digital and waste-to-energy, as well as social sectors such as health and education. IFC is looking for an ETC to support the PPP projects implementation. The ETC role is broad and entails high responsibility within the team structure.
Duties and Responsibilities:

IFC is looking for an ETC to support the PPP Hub leader in Business Development and Project Implementation. The position will be based in Bogotá, Colombia. The selected candidate will be supporting projects in the Andean Region and Southern Cone and Panama.
The duties will include but are not limited to:

 • Develop financial analysis and models to assess the financial feasibility of the projects.• Provide support in the selection of consultants, including drafting consultant terms of reference, requests for proposals and applications for funding for consultant costs.• Assist the team in business development including: Preparation of proposals, mandates, marketing documents and roadshows, procurement of consultants, prepare information memorandum etc.• Support the team in undertaking project scoping to assess feasibility of potential projects, prepare financial models and financial analysis.• Assist in the management of project execution: Prepare notes, minutes, presentations, and documentation for internal approval processes and for clients.• Assist in the coordination of project implementation with consultants: preparing their ToR, supervising hiring process, liaising during implementation, supervision of deliverables and quality control of consultant’s work.• Assist in coordinating closely with other parts of IFC including environmental and social, legal, other advisory and investment departments.• Understand the World Bank program for assigned countries and work with them particularly to assess opportunities for PPPs.• Perform duties as requested by senior members of the team.• Increasingly throughout work and experience (and in close coordination with the project’s team leader), develop capacity to manage individual tasks with relatively little supervision and develop initiative to work with the team to move the projects forward.• Develop expertise about IFC processes and internal systems management.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree in a related field and at least 4–8 years of relevant experience. Related fields of education include business, finance, or economics or an area of expertise specific to a sector, subject matter, or industry specialty.• 5 to 10 years of relevant experience gained with a leading financial institution working on PPP transaction advisory, project finance, M&A, privatization advisory or private equity.• Ability and proven track-record to develop financial modeling in project finance and strong analytical skills.• Experience in infrastructure sectors with knowledge of sector trends, legal and regulatory requirements will be considered a plus.• Demonstrated teamwork skills and ability to operate in large, culturally diverse and geographically dispersed teams.• Ability to work under pressure and deliver high quality work within tight deadlines.• Excellent oral and written communication skills in Spanish and English.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.