Overview
The Senior Investment Officer - Water & Urban will be responsible for originating, structuring, and executing infrastructure-related public-sector transactions, with an emphasis on urban development, water supply and sanitation, and/or water resource management subsectors. The role contributes to AIIB’s lending program by supporting project planning, design, preparation, and implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure key economic, financial, technical, legal, environmental, and social issues are considered and mitigants are incorporated in the financing structure and legal documentation during project preparation.
- Oversee project procurement, financial management, safeguards compliance, and monitoring and evaluation in the implementation of AIIB’s investment operations.
- Lead or participate in dialogue with clients, cofinancing partners and other stakeholders on strategic issues and the implementation of AIIB’s investment.
- Advise clients on the preparation of technical and feasibility studies and technical design of projects.
- Conduct project risk assessment and advise project teams on mitigation strategies.
- Carry out due diligence and institutional assessments on executing agencies.
- Support business development activities in public-sector infrastructure projects.
- Undertake regular supervision and implementation support missions and site visits.
- Contribute to knowledge generation, lessons learned, and best practices.
- Manage multidisciplinary project teams, providing technical leadership and strategic guidance.
- Mentor and develop junior staff within the team.
Required Experience
- Minimum 8-10 years of relevant working experience in the urban development, water supply and sanitation, and/or water resource management sectors.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing projects, including the integration of nature-based solutions.
- Proven experience in structuring and managing climate finance projects for resilient water supply, sanitation, and water resource management infrastructure projects and programs.
- Extensive international project experience, particularly in capacity-constrained economies, would be an advantage.
- Experience working with MDBs or development financing institutions would be highly desirable.
Qualifications
Master's degree or equivalent in engineering/science, urban design and planning, environment engineering, disaster risk management, business management, or other related fields.
