Investment Officer

Lagos | Abuja

Organization: World Bank Group
Location: Lagos | Abuja
Grade: 2359
Occupational Groups:
- Banking and Finance
- Impact investing, Social venture capital
Closing Date: 2025-07-05

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. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

IFC is looking to recruit an Investment Officer for its Africa Infrastructure department. The department is responsible for sourcing, structuring, executing, and supervising pre-investment, investment and portfolio transactions in the core infrastructure sectors (power; transportation and logistics; telecoms, media and technology (TMT); utilities, municipal and environmental; and natural resources) across Africa. The position will focus primarily on TMT. It will be based in Lagos, Nigeria, and the selected candidate will report to the Regional Upstream & Advisory Manager, Africa.

Duties and Accountabilities

The Investment Officer will identify new opportunities for early-stage project and sector development and provide support on the execution of investment transactions and management of portfolio projects across Africa, primarily in the TMT sector:

• Business Development: Source and assess opportunities, identify bankable projects anticipating market trends and employing sector/country knowledge; synthesize information into internal reports for decision-making purposes.

• Structuring and Negotiation: Evaluate, structure, negotiate, and close new debt and equity transactions, portfolio restructurings, capital increases, equity sales, etc. Develop innovative and appropriate financial structures for complex transactions.

• Deal Execution and Transaction Management: Deliver all transactions and accountabilities of the role efficiently, on a timely and expeditious basis, and using best practice standards. Ensure that defined transactional requirements recorded in the documentation are executed accordingly. Monitor the portfolio and report development results internally and externally. Coordinate closely with social, environmental, legal, and technical assistance colleagues in structuring transactions, to add value to our clients' businesses, find pragmatic solutions to project and sector challenges, and achieve sustainable development impact.

• Strategy Development and Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to drafting strategies for sectors, countries, or regions for business development; and develop and execute strategies for more complex client engagements with the objective of building a robust investment pipeline. Build IFC's knowledge base for best practices and participate in knowledge sharing and dissemination. Initiate collaboration and share expertise as a subject matter expert, providing advice, peer review, and contribution to knowledge products across the World Bank Group (WBG) to strengthen internal and/or external client solutions. Promoting the IFC brand and representing IFC at various conferences and workshops.

• Coordination with WBG: Support World Bank and MIGA colleagues on sector reform and unblocking constraints to attracting private sector capital.

• Mentoring and coaching of less-experienced colleagues to help build talent and grow the skill base of staff.

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