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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Structure, price and execute fixed income transactions for IFC’s clients including debt capital markets, structured products (including securitizations, covered bonds, structured debt funds, credit guarantees, risk sharing facilities and other instruments), as well as interest rate and currency derivatives.
• Build and maintain relationship with key partners, including international investment banks, local banks, capital market firms, investors, and regulators.
• Contribute to business development and market treasury products to internal and external clients.
• Conduct market intelligence of local and international debt capital markets.
• Coordinate the preparation and execution of IFC’s local currency bond issuances in domestic and international markets.
• Design, maintain, and improve financial models to structure, evaluate, and price innovative transactions; and
• Provide training and knowledge management services to colleagues and external clients.

Selection Criteria

• MBA/Master’s degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, Economics, Financial Mathematics, Statistics, or related area.
• Between 4 and 8 years of relevant work experience in finance, preferable in fixed income and/or structured products within an investment bank, rating agency, or capital markets related institution.
• Solid theoretical and practical knowledge of fixed income markets including interest rate and cross currency derivatives and/or structured products.
• Highly motivated, results-oriented team player with an ability to multi-task and thrive in a transaction-driven environment and to pay attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong data analysis and financial modelling skills.
• Good business judgment and good track record in transaction execution in an investment environment; and
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Closing: 31st August 2022

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The Legal Department of IFC (CLED), under the Vice President and General Counsel, is responsible for providing legal and policy advice to the IFC Board, its Management and client departments on operational, advisory and corporate matters. Specifically, CLED supports client departments in (i) the delivery of IFC’s annual program of financing private sector projects in emerging markets; (project portfolio management (including jeopardy projects and projects in litigation); the delivery and design of structured finance products, sub-sovereign lending, equity and quasi-equity, public-private partnerships, and carbon finance transactions; advising on corporate policy and operational matters such as operating policies and procedures and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Funding of Terrorism; and  knowledge management and training.  To support IFC’s growing activities in Africa, CLED is recruiting a qualified Legal Assistant, to be based in either of these locations Johannesburg, South Africa or Nairobi, Kenya or Dakar, Senegal.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare supporting documentation for internal and external matters, e.g., powers of attorney, proxies, signature designations, counsel retainer faxes and Article III notices (notifying governments of an IFC investment). 
• Assist IFC in-house counsel in preparing and reviewing legal documentation; prepare routine amendments, consents, and waivers.
• Liaise with IFC external counsel, where required.
• Attend to the signing of transaction documents and completion of conditions to disbursement. 
• Attend to the filing of transaction documents in accordance with IFC guidelines and practices.
• Perform other routine portfolio administration of IFC’s debt and equity investments.
• Handle and review transaction documents for IFC’s advisory program under appropriate supervision by IFC in-house counsel and follow up on the completion of any such agreements with IFC staff.
• Assist IFC in-house counsel with general tasks relating to advisory matters.
• Identify and analyze legal and policy issues associated with investment or advisory projects. 
• Contribute to and support CLED’s Knowledge Management objectives.

Selection Criteria

• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
• Excellent analytical and research skills.
• Ability to provide effective legal assistance to IFC in-house counsel by performing multiple, concurrent and progressively more difficult assignments.
• Ability to handle a diverse range of issues within tight deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize and manage tasks effectively.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work as a team member in a multi-cultural environment.
• Word processing experience and proficient computer skills, particularly in using information databases, internet/intranet services and library sources.
• An undergraduate (college) degree and ideally some combination of undergraduate legal courses, training offered by a professional institution or law firm and /or several years of relevant experience in assisting lawyers with the preparation and handling of legal documentation.

Closing: 2nd September 2022