Junior Professional, Public Sector
Shanghai
- Organization: NDB - New Development Bank
- Location: Shanghai
- Grade: Junior level - Junior
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- Closing Date: 2025-11-07
Closing on: November,7 2025 at 11:59pm (China Standard Time)
Duty Station: Shanghai, China
Target Market: Global Recruitment
Duty Station: Shanghai, China
Junior Professional, Public Sector (Investment Appraisal)
Position Objective
The Public Sector Department, under the Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for leading the appraisal and negotiation of operations with sovereign guarantees, applying sectoral expertise related to areas such as energy, transport, information and communications, technology, water and sanitation, social and urban infrastructure and sustainability. The Department is also responsible for operations with sub-national governments, including those that do not involve a sovereign guarantee. It supports the regional offices in supervising the implementation of operations, with the aim of gathering lessons for improving the preparation of future operations.
The Junior Professional, Public Sector is a project team member responsible for analytical review of project needs specific to project structuring and appraisal in order to continue in their development of their professional experience. The analyses and project support work is focused both on substantive aspects of investment projects and the utility of current approaches aligned to the needs of stakeholders. The provision of analysis is critical to the sustained relevance of the investment activities of the Bank and its capacity to adapt to emerging needs.
- Research background data (technical, financial, economic, etc.) essential to loan/investment project structuring and/or appraisal in the public sector area.
- Identify key issues in project development and execution of specific components of the project which supports completion of project design.
- Explore possible options for organization of project activities/deliverables.
- Initiate project monitoring to assess consistency with objectives and NDB standards to ensure alignment with established project plans/designs.
- Present information/research on specific components of projects to support timely project structuring and appraisal.
- Make team aware of operational issues in project execution.
- Engage stakeholders on the delivery of analyses identifying deliverables and timeframes, and data requirements.
- Deliver project analysis and research in a timely manner that supports the broader execution of individual projects in the public sector pipeline.
- Assess project performance/delivery against established metrics identifying deficiencies against established timelines/milestones.
- Bring rigor in the provision of analyses that conform to NDB standards in the structuring and appraisal of public sector investment projects.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in areas relevant to NDB mandate (e.g., Economics, Finance, etc.)
- Minimum one year of relevant work experience is preferred. Candidates with less than one-year work experience, and Fresh Graduates who have obtained education degrees, as required by NDB, could also be considered.
- Knowledge of economic analysis of investment projects.
- Knowledge of financial analysis of companies, subnational and national governments.
- Fluency in English essential to communicate in writing and speaking.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.