Senior Investment Officer at Lean Energy Solutions

Responsibilities

• Preparation of funding proposals and concept notes.
• Periodically evaluate progress towards the completion of project deliverables to verify alignment with strategic directions and defined targets. Ensure excellence within-budget and on-time delivery of activity and financial results and reports.
• Engage/Collaborate/Meet with Corporates and organizations supporting startups and innovation in Africa
• Manage and coordinate the relationships with key partners on various projects.
• Timely attention and response to company’s partners and donors
• Provide technical support to senior management’s efforts to develop new and innovative partnerships;
• Preparing investment memos, financial models, financial projections and valuations.
• Monitoring existing investments.
• Team coordination
• Fund Accounting
• Build systems to promote compliance with the terms of grants and agreements.
• Special Projects: Participate in project teams as relevant

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent required.
• At least 3 years of proven experience working in the field of resource mobilization and partnership building;
• Strong financial modeling ability with proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• The ability to confidently interact with and influence internal and external relationships, including senior business executives
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills
• An eagerness to take initiative; the ability to work independently and multi-task