Vacancy: Urban Infrastructure Investment Lead
The Organisation: Our client is a highly reputable global firm that offers bespoke management consulting support to leading organisations seeking to enhance business performance.
The Project: The organisation seeks to implement a donor funded 6 year programme, whose core objective is to provide Sustainable Urban Economic Development (SUED) in Small and Medium Towns (SMTs) in Kenya.
The program is anchored on three key pillars:
a) Improved urban economic planning at the County level: comprising demand-led technical assistance to both County governments / Private Sector actors to maximise sustainable, private sector-led urban growth;
b) Improved sub-national business environment reforms to improve County-level investment climate constraints for private-sector led urban growth and develop pro-poor market development strategies;
c) Establishment of an Urban Investment Advisory Facility (UIAF) to support public-private investment in Infrastructure and high potential value chains.
The Positions: To successfully deliver on this programme, our client seeks to setup a high calibre Project Management Unit, where team members are best fit by position, with the right skills set and a balanced mix of local and international talent.
Urban Infrastructure Investment Lead
Ref: ELSUED04
Role Purpose: The key role of the Urban Infrastructure Investments Facility Manager is to design,
develop and establish a sustainable Urban Investment Advisory Facility (UIAF) funded by DFID.
develop and establish a sustainable Urban Investment Advisory Facility (UIAF) funded by DFID.
The facility will have a two-fold investments objective:
(i) support public-private investment in climate resilient urban infrastructure and
(ii) support high potential value chains in the Counties.
The facility will be demand-led, receiving requests from both public and private sector actors seeking investment opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee the implementation of the UIAF, working with and coordinating the inputs of public and private finance and the various experts in the PMU
- Provide leadership on the overall technical direction of the project and serve as the main liaison with participating public and private stakeholders and DFID to ensuring buy-in and smooth project implementation
- Work closely with the value chains and infrastructure development leads in project preparation to ensure the bankability of the projects with quantifiable pro-poor impact in the identified Small and Medium Towns (SMTs).
- Manage the end-to-end process, including designing, proposing, obtaining approval for, tendering, and supervising the disbursement of funds for all UIAF projects
- Manage the UIAF operations including but not limited to the finance, donor relations, communications and visibility, reporting etc
- Contribute to the PMU’s knowledge management/development leveraging learnings from UIAF.
Desired Competencies and Experience
- A Master degree in Economics, MBA or in a related business discipline.
- At least 8 years of working experience in a similar environment
- Management or strategy consulting experience, a good understanding of private equity and/or experience of private sector oriented development program design.
- Strong analytical skills, including quantitative, results oriented with proven track record
- Proven ability to create buy-in and build consensus among colleagues and stakeholders
- Knowledge and experience of DFID, USAID or World Bank Group approaches to investments facilities management.
Application Procedure:
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should submit their applications to include, a cover letter; and an up-to-date CV via email to: cvs@hpdafrica.com.
Please quote the job title and job code in the subject line.
The closing date for receiving applications is October 30th 2015.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.