Investment Officer - Upstream & Advisory - CAT

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org . The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2025, IFC committed a record $71.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging private sector solutions, and mobilizing private capital to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org . The Upstream Advisory (CM5AU) team is part of the Middle East and Central Asia (MCA) Region's Manufacturing, Agribusiness Services (MAS) Industry Group at IFC. Our unit structures and delivers upstream advisory projects to prospective IFC clients, as well as supports investment processing. Our team is united by core values of Impact, Integrity, Respect, Teamwork, and Innovation. Together, we tackle the world’s toughest challenges, and advance social and economic inclusion. IFC is seeking Investment Officer, based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to drive impactful private sector development in MAS MCA Upstream Advisory (CM5AU). This role focuses on identifying innovative investment opportunities, fostering strategic partnerships, and delivering advisory solutions to advance sustainable growth and economic resilience in emerging markets.

Role Responsibilities: • Design, develop, and convene suitable teams/functions across the WBG to implement high-quality Upstream initiatives and interventions, engaging suitable external stakeholders to convert Upstream efforts into new investment opportunities. Manage human and financial resources efficiently across initiatives for optimal impact. Disseminate knowledge across teams based on both successful and pruned initiatives. • Selectively Lead execution of new transactions, and in portfolio restructurings, rescheduling, capital increases, equity sales, etc. Develop innovative and appropriate financial structures for complex and straightforward transactions(or participate as appropriate) in negotiations. • Analyze client, sector, and market data to design potential solutions to create and unlock markets or improve sector and firm performance and develop a pipeline of bankable projects. Conduct sector-specific data analysis and stress testing of various operating models to help generate ideas for new projects, new products, and platform businesses. Spot game-changing trends, technologies, and business models that can bring solutions to emerging markets. • Design analytical approaches to generate and test new ideas for market or project opportunity creation and feasibility, as well as new products and platform approaches. • Develop feasibility studies and implementation plans for Upstream projects that lead to IFC investments. Design and implement scalable solutions and platforms that can be replicated across markets. • Manage project budget preparation, approval processes, and financial management (i.e., administering and managing trust funds and related activities and ensuring that all disbursement documentation is properly prepared and recorded). Oversee analysis of timelines, milestones, resource use (time/budget), and progress for efficient oversight and project management of Upstream projects. • Determine scope of work and budgets for external consultants. Supervise selection and contracting process. Review and approve deliverables and payments to consultants and supervise contracts (e.g., timely extensions, modifications, closings). • Generate ideas about new investment opportunities, new products, and platform businesses by leveraging sector-specific data analysis, stress-testing various operating models, having dialogues with stakeholders, and sharing information across the WBG. Collaborate with stakeholders and form partnerships with staff across IFC and the World Bank Group, as well as sponsors, clients, and other external parties, to enable the delivery of Upstream projects and programs. Partner with sister organizations in the WBG and others in WBG flagship initiatives and to provide input when developing sector-specific development strategies, from diagnostic to implementation stages. • Help priorit