Fund Programme Specialist: Jet-ip Office

**Job Description** JOB PURPOSE**:

- The Fund Programme Specialist is responsible to source funding, with a focus on Green funding, to develop financing programmes and to implement and manage funding mechanisms, such as grant funds and related programmes for the JET-IP NEV and GH office.

**Qualification and Experience** QUALIFICATION**:

- Minimum qualification: relevant commercial or technical Honour’s Degree or equivalent

qualification.
- MBA or Master’s Degree would be an advantage.

**EXPERIENCE**:

- 5 to 8 years of relevant experience within financial services preferably within a development finance institution. Additionally experience in venture capital and early-stage investment will be an added advantage.
- Broad financial markets experience including, but not restricted to, appraising, negotiating and closing Project Finance, Corporate Finance or Structured Finance transactions or acting in a debt and/or equity instrument sales and distribution role in a financial institution.
- Experience in syndicating investment deals of appropriate sizes in relevant sectors/geographies in SA and/or Africa.
- Experience with Tax issues/matters/implications associated with grant and official development assistance (ODA) funding.
- Experience in repackaging assets and distributing risk to capital market investors.
- Understanding of the Development Finance Environment and the Just Energy Transition.
- Grounded experience on development issues.
- Strong networks and relationships with clients, global and regional private investors and banks in order to distribute viable projects/investments.
- Experience in developing/reviewing and using corporate/project/structured finance financial models.
- Experience with raising grant funding and managing grant programmes for investment in SMEs and Large projects, early -stage enterprises and technical assistance support.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the complex financial and regulatory environments across Africa.
- Strong customer focus and ability to engage effectively with senior officials of banks, corporates and governments.
- Experience working in a high-level collaborative and culturally diverse environment.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities while building effective relationships.
- Extremely organized and persistent, with drive and determination to achieve goals.

**Roles and Responsibilities** MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Financial/Shareholder Returns**
- Analyse the existing pipeline of green funders, with a focus on NEVs and GH and create a database for the JET IP NEV and GH Office. Green funds are of particular importance to the JET-IP work.
- Provide critical feedback on the suitability of all potential funding instruments
- Liaise with the JET PMU in the Presidency regarding funding and the JET Financing platform.
- Market the IDC’s JET IP NEV and GH office to the widest possible group of financiers that provide funding for JET/Impact-related programmes in NEVs and GH including Development Finance Institutions, Export Credit Agencies, commercial banks, African financial institutions, African multilaterals, insurers and other financial institutions.
- Liaise with the IDC Partnership and Programmes Unit and Financial Management and other relevant internal departments for all matters related to green funds and disbursements thereof.
- Provide support to the JET-IP Office at the IDC and other relevant units to structure agreements optimally, based on sound business principles.
- Set up new funds or financial instruments as required within the NEV and GH value chains in collaboration with other funders.

**Roles and Responsibilities (cont.)** Internal/Operational Processes**
- Provide support to the JET-IP Office in identifying and facilitating investments through financial partnerships in the continent.
- Develop and periodically update debt and equity investor as well as preferred transferee databases.
- Compile reports/submissions for internal approvals for IDC participation in third-party funds related to JET NEV or GH.
- Collaborate with other IDC Divisions and/or Business Units, as appropriate, todevelop appropriate funding instruments and programmes to support JET Implementation plans.
- Compile and issue and/or collate client and/or investor Expressions of Interest (EOIs) and fund term sheet(s).
- Originate and manage the process and provide input and collaborate with other IDC Divisions and/or Business Units, as appropriate, in the drafting/negotiation/execution of programme/fund mandates.
- Collaborate with other IDC Divisions and/or Business Units to perform fund/programme structuring, investment case development and documentation and internal investment

case presentation at governance/approval committees as appropriate/required.
- Collaborate with other IDC Divisions and/or Business Units during the programme/fund design Feasibility Study phase to provide input regarding the structuring and packaging of transactions for bankab