Overview
The role provides knowledge and criteria regarding business feasibility, assessment, or diagnosis of assigned projects within the Transport and Logistics sectors. It is involved in the supervision of ongoing transport investments and bridges operational experience with knowledge management.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities for advisory services to clients.
- Support the development of the sector strategy and creation of new business opportunities.
- Advise on early stage assessment of investment proposals.
- Apply sector knowledge in appraising new investment proposals.
- Liaise with client’s technical staff, project engineers, consultants and lenders’ engineers.
- Review and analyze major contracts.
- Develop market assessments, revenue projections, cost benchmarks, and operational parameters.
- Draft Terms of Reference, hire and supervise technical and market consultants.
- Prepare timely project appraisal reports.
- Provide technical supervision of WBG’s portfolio of transport sector investments.
- Identify and assist in resolving operational weaknesses and take notes of lessons learned and best practices.
- Maintain an active WBG network.
- Keep updated on sectoral and industry news, trends, related technology developments and cost references.
- Develop industry knowledge to share within WBG and with external clients.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of professional experience in the transport or logistics industry, with direct exposure to at least one subsector and broad knowledge/familiarity with others.
- Experience working with or on private sector transport projects is required, preferably in emerging markets.
- Demonstrated experience in technical due diligence, project appraisal, feasibility assessment, or technical advisory roles is strongly preferred.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transport Engineering or an equivalent technical discipline is required.
