Sector Specialist

2 weeks ago

Midrand, South Africa DBSA Full time

The purpose of this job is to:

- Prepare potential investments for investment by providing innovative and sustainable sector investment solutions aligned to DBSA mandate as an infrastructure DFI
- Provide solution-driven sector due diligence expertise into investment projects at all stages of the investment cycle including early review, appraisal, negotiation, monitoring at project and sector level and performance evaluation
- Advise DBSA clients on infrastructure sector financing solutions to enhance sustainable infrastructure delivery in South Africa and the African region.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Investment**

1. Prepare potential investments for investment by providing innovative and sustainable sector infrastructure investment solutions to support project scoping, feasibility studies, and business planning

2. Conceptualise new products and services in line with the DBSA mandate and where opportunity exists, recommend and direct the bank to realise new opportunities

3. Assess the sector impact of proposed DBSA investment transactions in South Africa and Africa:

- Appraise the macro sectoral economic sectoral market environment
- Assess the impact of sectoral policy, legislation, strategy, and tariff regimes
- Analyse sector risks and proposing relevant mitigation measures
- Demonstrate the economic rationale by assessing demand and supply drivers, and conducting cost benefit analysis
- Validate the technical feasibility / assumptions and projections including design assumptions, technology options, operations and maintenance plans
- Furnish structuring solutions to secure approval by relevant decision making committees
- Formulate sectoral conditionality’s within the structuring of investment solutions

4. Monitor sector conditionality’s, and mitigation factors of the projects and programmes that the Bank supports. Where deviations occur, to recommend corrective measures

5. Evaluate the sector impact of investment projects funded by the DBSA

**Sector Governance**

1. Present sector research findings on business and product development, sector targets, and investment strategies to the Investment Committee and Board of Directors

2. Develop, implement and review sector strategies, guidelines and technical frameworks to embed GIIP in DBSA investment decision making

3. Evaluate the DBSA infrastructure investment portfolio.

**Clients, Governments and Finance Partnerships**

1. Provide credible sectoral advice to the DBSA, its clients and sector role players including private and public sector investors, businesses, and client-country governments

2. Influence relevant sectoral investment decision making structures including DBSA, national government, SOCs, sector fora, Regional Economic Communities (e.g. SADC, IIPSA) to enhance sectoral infrastructure investments

3. Interface with finance partners locally, regionally and internationally to catalyse sustainable financing, align and incorporate GIIP, the Sustainable Development Goals and global, regional and local sector policy frameworks into DBSA operations and investment decision making

**Key Measurements of Outputs**

**Investment**

1. Number and quality of innovative and sustainable infrastructure financing opportunities brought into the business

2. Number and quality of projects prepared for investment

3. Number and quality of innovative financing solutions proposed to structure sustainable infrastructure investment solutions

4. Number and quality of due diligence assignments and projects concluded for investment

5. % of loan book in priority geographies and sectors

6. Annual disbursements, commitments and approvals

8. Number and quality of project infrastructure sector evaluations conducted to enhance DBSA investment reporting

9. Total Rand value added to profitability of DBSA for the year

10. Number of development goals achieved via projects for the year

**Sector Governance**

1. Number and quality of sector papers prepared to inform sustainable infrastructure investment decision making in the DBSA

2. Number and quality of sector strategies, guidelines and technical frameworks developed and applied to promote GIIP in DBSA

**Clients, Governments and Finance Partnerships**

1. Number and quality of partnership opportunities identified

**Key Internal Liaison Relationships**

1. Executives

2. Client Coverage, Transacting, CIO Division, IDD, Project Preparation, Risk, Treasury, Finance, Corporate Services

3. Specialists in the Bank

4. Investment Officers

5. Deal Originators

6. DBSA Investment Committees

**Key External Liaison Relationships**

1. All external Stakeholders

2. Private Companies

3. National sector departments

4. SOE’s

5. Regional and relevant global sector networks

6. Potential and Existing Clients

7. Banks and DFIs

8. Regional sectoral bodies

**Expertise & Technical Competencies**:
**Minimum Requirements**

1. An academic qualification in business, engineering and/or finance related to infrastruc

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