Operations Officer

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, please visit www.ifc.org.

The IFC 3.0 strategy aims to stimulate more investment activity across emerging markets, especially in Low Income Countries (LICs) and Fragile and Conflict affected States (FCS). Our goal is to create, deepen, and expand markets and design and develop impactful investment projects. This strategy is, in part, premised on improved country/sector diagnostic, strategic, and public sector engagement capabilities, which seek to: 1) resolve obstacles to private sector growth via diagnostic and strategic work that informs both IFC operations and relevant IBRD/IDA policy operations; and 2) overcome the shortage of investable projects in priority markets by proactively improving the private sector ecosystem at the country and regional level.

The IFC’s Country Advisory and Economics unit for Europe (CEUAE) is seeking to recruit an Operations Officer to be based in Tbilisi, Georgia and reporting to its manager - based in Paris.

The CEUAE team is responsible for:
• Producing both regional and country-level economic assessments to support IFC’s strategy and operations.
• Leading/Collaborating with World Bank Group (WBG) colleagues to produce analytical products such as Country Private Sector Diagnostics (CPSDs) and IFC Country Strategies.
• Significantly contributing to WBG country engagement, including analytical and strategic products such as Country Partnership Framework (CPF), Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCD), Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDR), as well as IBRD/IDA lending operations.
• Putting IFC’s country strategy and diagnostic recommendations into practice through Advisory projects that engage with governments, regulators, civil society, development partners and other relevant stakeholders to reform markets and sectors and address key bottlenecks to private sector development.

Duties and Accountabilities:
The selected candidate will develop market-driven client solutions using local and regional resources. They will ensure CAE programs align with IFC’s strategic priorities and foster private investment opportunities. The Operations Officer will collaborate across all CAE functions. He/She will be responsible for :
• Contributing to the operationalization of key strategic and diagnostic recommendations through the design and implementation of client-facing Advisory Services projects that support reform implementation and investment facilitation in line with IFC’s strategic priorities.
• Contributing to IFC’s engagement collaborating with other IFC and World Bank teams to help advance select private sector reform priorities through IFC’s upstream and advisory work and the World Bank operations (including policy-based lending and investment lending) and align advisory efforts with private sector opportunities.
• Conducting sector diagnostics with clients and collaborate with economists and industry specialists.
• Leveraging partnerships to design and execute reform initiatives.
• Integrating global best practices and lessons learned to enhance client solutions.
• Ensuring high-quality project execution, resource efficiency, and client support.