Project Finance Director

Position description

This position is part of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Office of Energy (OE). As a Project Finance Specialist (Director), you will manage complex, sensitive, and precedent-setting finance projects. You will carry out the full range of new project financings and undertake all tasks required to process transactions from initial screening to due diligence, negotiating & structuring, approval, documentation, closing & funding.

What you’ll do:

As a Project Finance Specialist (Director), you will:

• Handle a range of activities in the structured debt finance origination process, including reviewing business plans, off-take agreements and other contracts of a project including EPC and O&M, market studies, financial model projections, and financial model sensitivities for structured debt finance applications.
• Analyze the nature of the investment, equity and debt instruments involved in projects overseas.
• Summarizes clearly and concisely due diligence finding as part of credit packages and other documents and memoranda required in the Agency’s approval process and presents loan credit proposals to committees to obtain approvals.
• Negotiate terms and conditions in contracts and structured debt finance agreements to achieve execution of commitment letters, financing agreements and disbursements.
• Conduct research and analysis on relevant industry, sector, market, country and key participants.
• Conduct outreach to expand the prospective structured debt finance pipeline.
• Serve as point of contact for day-to-day advancement of transactions, including scheduling and attending calls; project management and planning; coordinating among the client, internal parties, external advisors and financing partners; and generally managing the multifaceted workstreams required to advance transactions to commitment., financial close and disbursement.
• Oversee ancillary workstreams related to transactions including liaising with client, intradepartmental tasks and external consultants. Work with clients to complete DFC forms, liaising with DFC’s environmental and social team, reviewing know-your-customer diligence results, and similar routine tasks that must be completed on all transactions.

Experience we’re looking for:

Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement.

You may qualify at the GS-14 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements:

A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following:

1. Experience independently or leading a team in originating international project finance debt transactions in developing countries while working at a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, multilateral organization, or other comparable governmental entity;
2. Experience conducting all of the following: due diligence, financial analysis, economic analysis, detailed credit analysis, credit risk assessment and mitigation, market analysis, legal agreement structuring, legal agreement negotiations, and political risk analysis of limited recourse finance transactions;
3. Experience creating, analyzing and running sensitivities on complex financial models for projections of financial projects with work product considered final;
4. Experience communicating results of research and analysis of work product considered final; and
5. Experience in project finance with experience gained in the following areas: corporate finance, accounting, credit analysis, international investments and commercial/investment banking.

Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Must submit resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• Suitability for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Within 30 days of your start date, you will be required to file a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450)
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance
• This position will require foreign travel to developing countries

How to Apply: To apply for this position, you must review the job announcement and complete the online application through USAJOBS. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date to receive consideration.

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