Egypt_Team leader, Senior Project Finance / Banking Lending (KE1)

OBJECTIVE OF PROJECT

AFC is preparing the tender documents for the EIB Technical Assistance (TA) to Support Lending to Trade Infrastructure & to The Private Sector (Egypt). 

The EIB has put in place two loan Facilities in favour of Afreximbank to cover the medium to long term financial needs of SMEs and Midcaps in Sub-Saharan Africa:

  • Afreximbank Loan for the Private Sector (EUR 100m, 2017)
  • Afreximbank Trade and Climate Action Loan (EUR 200m, 2018)

The overall objective of the TA operation is to ensure an effective and efficient use of the EIB loan facilities towards the financing - under the form of long-term loans - of financially, technically, economically, socially and environmentally viable private sector projects, by building capacity in strategic key areas relevant to Afreximbank’s business particularly with regards to its climate finance lending.

 

SCOPE OF WORK

In relation to the responsibilities of Team Leader, Key expert 1 (KE1) shall be responsible for the delivery of all services and deliverables under this contract. The Team Leader shall be responsible for coordinating and validating TA initiatives with Afreximbank as well as the EIB, mobilising TA initiatives with long-term experts and short term experts. The Team Leader will further supervise the teams mobilised for the production of deliverables, ensure quality management, and timely corrective action as required and will be also involved as a senior consultant providing training and mentoring support to facilitate EIB’s intermediated lending.

Qualifications: 
  • University degree, preferably at Masters’ level, in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Banking, or related field;
  • Fluency in English and/or French with a strong working knowledge of the other is required; Knowledge of Arabic is an advantage;
  • Computer literate;
  • Educational / trainer certification would be an asset.

 

GENERAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • In depth knowledge of the banking sector and of project finance of trade related infrastructure and of SME lending, as evidenced by minimum 10 years of recent professional experience (either working for an inclusive financial services provider or delivering direct capacity building to FIs in the last 15 years) ;
  • Good management skills as evidenced by at least 5 years in a recent senior management role (at least as COO/CFO level) in the last 15 years;
  • Good knowledge of donor/DFI financing programmes as well as fully conversant in the knowledge of Know Your Customer and AML procedures, as well as Social and Environmental standards including gender;
  • Experience of working in a senior expert/management position on donor/DFI financed TA operation projects or a proven track record of developing and implementing innovative financing products in the past 5 years would be an asset;
  • Previous experience of assisting financial institutions to improve their social performance.

 

SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Strong regional experience as demonstrated by at least 5 years of relevant international professional experience (based outside the country of origin) of which at least 3 years should have been spent managing financial services activities in Africa preferably in at least one of the target countries;
  • Practical experience and proven track record in organising and delivering professional bank training/coaching programmes in developing countries; At least 5 years practical experience and proven track record in managing the provision of successful capacity building activities to FIs or banks, including, for example; conducting needs assessments and analysis of results, development of subsequent training and coaching plans, development of curricula and training materials, organisation and delivery of trainings;
  • Fully conversant with market and financial risk analysis techniques (including AML/CFL and compliance), and ability to implement computer based models to analyse balance sheets and calculate key financial ratios for lending analysis and meeting banking requirements (e.g. Basel). Fully conversant in the implementation of environmental and social policies including gender.

 

NOTE: Civil servants and other staff of the public administration of the partner country or of international/ regional organisation based in the country cannot be recruited as experts, unless prior written approval has been obtained.

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