IFC Short Term Consultant Job in Kenya

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries.

We create opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives. We do so by providing financing to help businesses employ more people and supply essential services, by mobilizing capital from others, and by delivering advisory services to ensure sustainable development.

IFC is recruiting:

Short Term Consultant – Senior Investment Climate specialist

Based in Nairobi, Kenya

The Investment Climate Advisory Services team is looking for a Short Term Consultant (STC) to be located in Nairobi.

The STC will be expected to:

• Develop and implement reforms in the upstream regulatory and business environment for the power sector (grid and off-grid) in the following topics;

1. Removing constraints/entry barriers
2. Economic Regulation
3. Licensing
4. Investment Incentives
5. Investment Generation

• Develop collaborative partnerships with all other World Bank Group teams in country involved in the power sector in client countries (IFC Investment hub in Nairobi, Bank SD, Bank FPD, and other IFC Advisory Services) to ensure coherence of interventions and synergies with other WBG activities in the sector;
• Actively collaborate with the Investment Climate PPI team at HQ to ensure optimal client response, knowledge generation and dissemination of best practice across countries and regions;
• Act as a liaison on infrastructure regulatory issues internally with other parts of the World Bank Group with an interest in this topic and externally with government and private sector.

The consultant will be working with staff in Nairobi and with a global “Private Participation in Infrastructure” (PPI) product team in Washington.

Requirements

• Masters degree in Economics, Law, Engineering, or Business and at least 8 years professional experience in the area of regulation of infrastructure, in particular energy sector;
• Proven ability to interact with clients at a senior level;
• Excellent communication and partnership skills. Utilizes negotiation skills and deals sensitively in multicultural and matrix environments; works well across boundaries and finds creative solutions to get different parties to work together;
• Fluency in English is essential; French is desirable (but not required)

Please send your applications to Rmakotsi@ifc. org before October 19, 2011

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