Job #: req6055
Organization: IFC
Sector: Advisory Services
Grade: GG
Term Duration: 3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Islamabad,Pakistan
Required Language(s): English, Mandarin
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date: 2/29/2020 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
IFC—a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work with more than 2,000 businesses worldwide, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in the toughest areas of the world. In fiscal year 2018, we delivered more than $23 billion in long-term financing for developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
IFC’s Financial Institutions Group (FIG) works through financial institutions to provide much-needed access to finance for millions of individuals and micro, small, and medium enterprises that we would never be able to reach directly. This is an important part of the World Bank Group strategy to end extreme poverty and build shared prosperity.
FIG Asia Pacific provides the strategic investment and advice needed by financial institutions to build a strong, engaged private sector and tackle the region’s most pressing development challenges. We account for about 32 percent of FIG’s Global investment portfolio, and our projects support micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), climate-smart projects, housing, insurance, supply chains, and digital finance. We demonstrate the business case for greater financial inclusion, particularly for women and other under-served segments of the community. Our tailored advice helps clients build capacity, strengthen risk management, and diversify and scale their product offerings. Stretching from the Pacific to South Asia, our projects are delivering on the IFC 3.0 agenda and enabling the region to fulfill its potential.
FIG Advisory in Asia Pacific leverages on IFC’s global presence, to drive thought leadership and deliver expert advice to our clients towards achieving greater access to finance in our priority markets in the region. Thematic areas of specialization include SME Banking, Microfinance, Agrifinance, Supply Chain Finance, Risk Management, Capital Markets, Digital Financial Services, Climate Finance, Gender Finance and Housing.
The jobholder will play a leading role in the Supply Chain Finance Practice and SME Banking. He would also be the Country Anchor for FIG Advisory Services (AS) in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He/she will drive the FIG AS business in Pakistan, and lead delivery and thought leadership, quality control, product innovation in the designated thematic area in Asia i.e. mainly Supply Chain Finance, as per IFC’s expert-based model. As Country Anchor, he/she will be an integral member of the Country Leadership team and will work closely with key stakeholders, particularly the country managers, in shaping and executing the WBG/IFC country strategy.
The jobholder will report directly to the Manager, FIG Advisory Services Asia. The jobholder will be the direct supervisor of all country advisory staff and the co-supervisor of all Asia staff working in the same thematic area.
Role & Responsibilities:
As a leading member of the Supply Chain Finance practice, the jobholder will be responsible for the technical oversight of Supply Chain Finance linked advisory in the region and within Pakistan work across Practices (in addition to Supply Chain Finance such as Agrifinance, Digital Financial Services, SME Banking, Risk Management, etc) to deliver market-leading client solutions by leveraging local and regional resources. IFC’s FIG Advisory Services aims to deliver innovative solutions to support target clients’ objectives to expand and grow their business, in line with IFC’s country strategies to address development challenges. The jobholder would also make close collaborations with the Upstream, Investment and World Bank teams for better synergies and integrated firm level as well as market level solutions. Founded on comprehensive diagnostics and knowledge resources IFC designs and implements capacity building to strengthen clients’ business model, organization, products and services, risk management framework and/or digital capabilities to better serve underserved market segments.
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