Overview
The Industry Specialist will operate at the intersection of technical due diligence, commercial viability, and policy/regulatory frameworks to enhance project bankability and enable private capital participation in transport projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, lead and challenge technical due diligence across transport projects.
- Translate technical findings into clear implications for financial viability, risk allocation, and structuring.
- Assess project design alignment with demand realities and operational efficiency requirements.
- Identify key technical risks and define practical mitigation measures.
- Review contractual frameworks with a focus on lender/investor requirements.
- Ensure alignment between technical assumptions and financial models.
- Support preparation of investment materials.
- Provide a commercial perspective on market dynamics.
- Support pipeline development by screening opportunities, identifying risks and solutions, and engaging with stakeholders.
- Support portfolio supervision by monitoring performance, identifying risks, advising on corrective actions, and feeding lessons learned into new origination.
- Work closely with regional teams to ensure policy and regulatory frameworks align with private sector participation requirements.
- Translate regulatory and institutional constraints into implications for project bankability.
- Advise public sector counterparts on designing projects and frameworks to attract private capital.
- Identify key bottlenecks and propose targeted, practical reforms.
- Contribute to ensuring consistency between upstream policy work and downstream investment execution.
- Capture lessons learned across projects to inform repeatable models for private capital mobilization.
- Contribute to the development of practical guidance, tools, and templates.
- Support dissemination of best practices linking policy frameworks, technical design, and investment outcomes.
Required Experience
- 12+ years of experience combining technical project work and exposure to private sector investment/PPP environments.
- Demonstrated ability to connect technical, regulatory, and commercial dimensions of infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of PPP/concession frameworks and policy constraints affecting private participation.
- Experience engaging with both public sector stakeholders and private investors/operators.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in engineering (transport, civil, or related field); advanced degree preferred.
