Senior Operations Officer

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Description

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• To enable inclusive economic opportunities for people affected by forced displacement and their hosts by designing, funding, and piloting innovative, impactful, and scalable private sector solutions. The ambition is to mobilize USD 100 million in private sector projects over the five-year life cycle of the Joint Initiative, and more importantly to demonstrate commercial viability of investing in forced displacement contexts.
• To establish thought leadership on private sector development in forced displacement contexts through a strong knowledge base of operational lessons and promoting knowledge exchange among key stakeholders engaged in this space.  

• Supporting IFC and UNHCR Regional, Country and Technical colleagues to design and implement tailored projects through the provision of technical expertise, operational support and funding;
• Building and leveraging strong relationships with the IFC Upstream, Investment and Advisory and UNHCR Operational teams to identify key priorities and implementation support;
• Designing Solutions and helping designing solutions to private sector interventions in forced displacement;
• Mainstreaming the concept of Private Sector engagement in forced displacement contexts and maintaining good relationships with external stakeholders, including government representatives, development partners, private companies, NGOs, financial institutions and humanitarian stakeholders;
• Contributing, when required, to specific Joint Initiative program management tasks;
• Ensuring knowledge management is embedded across all JI’s activities and best practices are taken into consideration in project design and implementation;
• Readiness to travel extensively and interact/provide advice to decentralized teams;
• Operate with a significant degree of autonomy, under the overall guidance of the Joint Initiative Manager.

• A post-graduate degree in one or more of the following disciplines: international development, business administration ideally with 15 years or more field experience;
• Relevant private sector development experience with a successful track record in designing and implementing development programs across several continents, in emerging economies, and familiar with market creation and inclusion approaches;
• Proven ability to engage with and provide technical assistance to private companies in business development, project design and/or innovations;
• Over 7 years’ experience in investment/transaction support or operational and technical expertise/support of advisory projects with an MDB or DFI
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and proven ability to bridge the gap between private sector and humanitarian actors;
• Familiar with project cycle, processes and procedures for investment transactions and advisory services projects at DFIs and/or MDBs;
• Extensive experience of living and/or working in challenging business environment and/or in forced displacement contexts will be a distinct advantage;
• Self-starter, mature and flexible personality; able to work in a multicultural, fast-paced, and diverse team environment;
• A team player with excellent people management skills, ability to work with colleagues from different teams and institutions who are not reporting to him/her and achieve results while meeting tight deadlines and maintaining strong client service orientation;
• Strong analytical and presentation skills working with data using standard office software Excel, Word, Powerpoint;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and ideally at least one other language (Arabic, French, Spanish, etc.).

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