E T Consultant - Senior Operations Officer

Job #: req36656
Organization: IFC
Sector: Operations
Grade: EC3
Term Duration:  1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type: International Recruitment
Location: Malabo,Equatorial Guinea
Required Language(s): English, Spanish
Preferred Language(s): French
Closing Date: 5/24/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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.

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 WBG has recently established its first-ever in-country Resident Representation for EQG in the city of Malabo. This Country Office (CO) is headed by a WBG Resident Representative (RR) who covers four of the five institutions of the WBG. The RR is the Head of Office (HOO) and responsible for leading the WBG relationship with the Government of EQG.

The WBG in Malabo is looking to recruit a Senior Operations Officer under an Extended Term Consultancy modality. This position will report to the WBG RR and aims to provide critical quasi-managerial office and program support to the Resident Representation and content-related support to WBG teams working on EQG. The role is of fundamental importance to help the HOO address the country’s development needs and global challenges with impact and at scale, through purposeful collaboration, coordination, and deployment of the WBG collective knowledge and services. 

Duties and Accountabilities:

Country Office 

• Developing and maintaining a good understanding of the country’s key economic and political issues/
trends to be reported as relevant to the HOO.
• Being the primary point of contact for operationalizing the WBG program in the country, by liaising regularly with the Government of EQG’s office supporting WBG missions and with all other critical development partners, including the private sector, other donors, and the CSOs.
• Building partnerships with key public and private stakeholders, including new/existing clients, other development partners and key ministries relevant for our program.
• Supporting the WBG EQG CO’s Assistant to the Resident Representation (ARR) in the preparation of visiting missions/trips to the country, including the preparation of briefs, and the organization of meeting and logistics, as per direct engagement with the different internal and external clients of the WBG.
• Supporting the country and/or sector/industry teams in the update and the preparation of WBG strategy documents such as the Country Partnership Framework (CPF), Country Private Sector Diagnostics (CPSD), Climate Change and Development Report (CCDR), Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD); or any other core Analytical Services and Advisory (ASA) products from the World Bank and/or Upstream and Advisory (U&A) products from IFC that involve sectoral/thematic Deep Dives.
• Reviewing and preparing various reports, including time sheets and weekly activities progress updates; organizing meetings and workshops for specific advisory or investment engagements, as requested by the HOO.
• Overseeing the preparation and/or direct supervision of all outgoing communication to clients to be signed by the HOO and taking the lead in assessing all incoming communication from clients to be responded by the HOO by proactively drafting such communications for HOO’s supervision.
• Demonstrating and/or quickly acquiring a thorough understanding of the country, providing market intelligence and analysis, and developing strong business networks; 
• Maintaining an up-to-date and structured database of clients (internal and external) to the WBG, in direct coordination with the ARR.
• Building strong relationships with government officials, portfolio clients, global and regional private businesses (in financial and real sectors), multilateral and bilateral partners, academia and civil society organizations to further develop technical assistance, financing and investment opportunities in economic sectors with high developmental impact. 
• Assisting the HOO with the overall strategy formulation for the WBG program with the country, ensuring to keep constant collaborative working relationships across the WBG institutions.
• Provide in-country support, and subsequent follow-up to all WBG visiting missions, as needed, and ensuring Aide Memoires (AMs) are delivered promptly after missions have been completed. 
• Assisting the HOO with the daily management of the EQG CO, directly liaising with the ARR for anchoring continuously impactful support to the country.
• Supporting the ARR in keeping constantly updated all critical distribution lists (both internal and external) to the WBG.

Operations

• Supporting the day-to-day oversight and implementation of the WBG program in the country, in line with the CPF for the country and the evolving WBG corporate strategies.  
• Assisting in the daily monitoring of the WBG portfolio in collaboration with teams from across all three relevant institutions for EQG (IBRD, IFC, and MIGA), providing the Country Office Management perspective on all projects, from design/inception through completion.
•  Conducting periodical reviews to assess the quality of outputs before delivery, or during implementation phase, from all WBG products.
•  Negotiating with internal or external clients on sensitive and delicate issues, as needed. 
• Assisting the Country Office Management in the preparation for conferences, seminars, workshops, and corporate events. 
• Proactively, and as needed, developing a strong pipeline of good quality financing and investment opportunities for the WBG through focusing on the approved CPF and its Annual Business Planning Exercise (ABPE), anticipating market trends and employing sector/country knowledge.
• Developing country and market knowledge to ensure that the WBG is working with critical development partners and sponsors that could help leverage development finance.
• Preparing relevant strategy papers, briefs, summaries, working papers, reports and promotional materials for internal and external users, in coordination with the WBG Communications Team for EQG.
•  Fulfilling a series of critical roles for ramping up private sector financing for EQG, undertaking the following IFC-related tasks:
    Collecting all relevant on-the-ground information with potential impact on IFC’s activities in the country and communicating them in due time to Region/Industry colleagues and the HOO.
    Developing a strong understanding, and actively marketing and utilizing IFC’s Advisory Services. 
    Supporting investment, upstream, and advisory teams for all IFC projects in the country, including new business and portfolio projects.
    Conducting market and industry research and associated analysis, including sector and industry players mapping to inform business development.
    Reviewing company information, analyzing financials/projections, make financial models to support investment analysis for potential leads.
    Taking accountability for client selection and supporting with the integrity due diligence of potential sponsors. 
    Developing and maintaining relationships with potential clients and identifying business opportunities, while considering IFC’s strategy, priorities          and products. 
• Performing other such duties as may be required from time to time to meet emerging, ad-hoc corporate requirements, and/or respond to internal or external requests. 
Other Responsibilities
• Being the main direct back-up of the HOO for all aspects of the WBG program and office with and in EQG, acting for the HOO at all times when the HOO is outside of the country.
• Serving as the team leader for any ad-hoc requests placed by the HOO and/or Management for teams working on EQG.
• Providing a complementary supervision to that of the HOO to the ARR, being the first daily point of contact to the ARR and directly participating in his/her annual performance and talent review.
• Delivering needed training and/or mentoring to the ARR and other staff in WBG program-related management tasks, applications and uses, as needed. 

Selection Criteria

• Minimum of a Master’s degree, preferably in Business Administration, Management, Economics or in a similar field. Holding a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) and/or any dual-graduate degree is a plus.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a multilateral development institution and/or the private sector.
• Ability to represent the institution externally with the private sector, government, development partners, media and other stakeholders.
• Ability to think creatively about potential investment opportunities and to use business development skills to translate such opportunities into bankable projects. 
• Track record in developing and maintaining strong high-level relationships in the private sector, government and development institutions. 
• Fluency in English and Spanish (spoken and written) mandatory and fluency in French (spoken and written) would be highly valued.
• Strong command of information-technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) competencies, with mastery of critical software packages (email; software packages for word processing, datasheet and quantitative analysis generation, and presentation preparation; Internet and use of AI).
• Extensive and current knowledge of relevant analytical tools, and technical and administrative functions.
• Excellent work experience (and academic, if presenting combination of academic and work experience) references. 
• Key competencies and skills:  i) proactivity; ii) responsibility and accountability (taking ownership); iii) maturity to manage complex and potentially stressful situations; iv) flexibility to adapt to constantly changing conditions and working under pressure; vi) ability to work and lead multi-country, multi-cultural teams and to effectively coordinate with internal and external clients of the WBG; viii) superb interpersonal skills and client focus; x) excellent communication skills; xi) ability to prioritize critical activities, while dealing with multi-tasking; xii) superior organizational skills; and xiii) ability to coordinate contributions of specialists in other disciplines to complete a joint product.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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