Investment Professional, Public Sector | Jobs in China by New Development Bank (NDB) | Apply Now

JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Employment: Full Time

Closing on: August 23, 2024 at 11:59pm (China Standard Time)
Based in: Shanghai, China
Target Market: Global recruitment

Position Objective
The Public Sector Department, under the office of the Vice President for Operations, is responsible for the preparation, appraisal, processing, and negotiation of sovereign operations as well as operations with sub-national governments with or without sovereign guarantees in the various sectoral areas including Water and Sanitation, Transport, Urban Infrastructure, Energy, Social Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, and Sustainability. These programs/services are critical to ensuring that NDB is able to develop a pipeline of projects for execution across member countries aligned to the Bank's priorities and the needs of its stakeholders.

The Investment Professional, Public Sector is a project team member responsible for the processing and initial analysis of one or several project structuring and appraisal aspects. The assessment focuses on the technical, financial, economic, institutional, and implementation aspects of projects, ensuring alignment to Bank priorities and stakeholder needs. The provision of analysis is critical to the sustained relevance of the Bank’s project portfolios and the capacity of the organization to adapt its projects to the needs of its stakeholders.

Purpose (Analyze)
- Analyze technical, financial, economic, institutional and implementation aspects of investment projects to determine feasibility, mitigate risk, and ensure alignment with the Bank’s General Strategy.
- Provide insights on the public sector landscape, business plans, and project designs to address potential issues impacting project preparation and delivery.
- Implement components of projects from concept review to the first disbursement to ensure smooth turnover of projects to Regional Offices/Centers.

Engagement (Collaborate)
- Advise and make project team leaders aware of issues and challenges related to the processing public sector transactions to strengthen project development and appraisal processes.
- Collaborate with other project team members during project appraisal and peer reviews to increase efficiency of project processing and jointly achieve project objectives.

Delivery (Deliver Project Components)
- Deliver concept notes, analysis, knowledge reports, and project documents, as part of the project team and in support of higher level team members and activities, to the Board in line with the Bank’s project processing cycles.
- Assess relevance and sustainability of investment projects/instruments in addressing developmental challenges in member countries to help refine project approaches.

Requirements:

- Master’s Degree or equivalent in areas relevant to NDB mandate (e.g., Economics, Finance, etc.)
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in financial institutions, consulting companies or research centres working in the areas of NDB operations, out of which at least 3 years in multilateral development banks on positions focused on appraisal of sovereign guaranteed loans for investment projects and programs.
- Fluency in English essential to communicate in writing and speaking.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

The New Development Bank (NDB) is a multilateral development bank (MDB) established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) with the objective of financing infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other emerging economies and developing countries. NDB’s work complements the efforts of multilateral and regional financial institutions, toward global growth and development.

Our work is centered around maximizing the impact of development in a fast, ﬂexible and eﬃcient manner. To catalyze the kind of development we envisage, we are always keen to listen, learn and collaborate with other MDBs, governments, ﬁnancial institutions and social organizations.

To fulfill its purpose, the Bank supports public or private projects through loans, guarantees, equity participation and other financial instruments.

Our headquarters is in Shanghai, China. The geographic distribution of NDB’s operations is becoming increasingly balanced as the Bank develops its capacity to identify and prepare projects in all member countries. The first regional office of NDB – the Africa Regional Centre (ARC) – was opened in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2017. In July 2019, NDB began to build the Americas Regional Office team, based in São Paulo, Brazil, with a sub-office in Brasília. NDB and the Government of Russia signed the Agreement on the Hosting of the NDB Eurasian Regional Centre in Moscow, Russia on the sidelines of the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasília in November 2019.