Country Officer

**Country Officer**

**Job #**:

- req26476**Organization**:

- IFC**Sector**:

- Financial Sector**Grade**:

- GG**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment**Location**:

- Buenos Aires,Argentina**Required Language(s)**:

- English, Spanish**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 3/15/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

The IFC Southern Cone Region is seeking a senior and experienced professional as a Country Officer to join the team that leads, oversees, and monitors the performance of the IFC program and help build IFC’s activities across all industries as a member of the Southern Cone regional team that currently covers Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The Country Officer will be based in Buenos Aires and report to the Southern Cone region's IFC Senior Country Manager.

**ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Strategy**
- Work with the Senior Country Manager and the Senior Country Officer to oversee the formulation, development, and implementation of IFC’s strategy in Argentina and Southern Cone, including preparing business plan updates and progress review meetings. Coordinate the development of IFC’s strategy. Help create a long-term vision for IFC’s engagement in Argentina and Paraguay.
- Support the preparation of WBG strategy documents, including IFC strategies, Country Private Sector Diagnostics (CPSD 2.0), Country Partnership Frameworks (CPF), etc.
- Work closely with IFC investment, advisory, upstream, and relevant WBG teams to roll out IFC’s strategy and help develop the project pipeline. Establish and maintain senior working level relationships across IFC, with senior WBG counterparts, private sector clients, governments, and other relevant stakeholders to develop business opportunities.

**Investment and Advisory/Upstream Operations**
- Oversee integration and delivery of IFC’s investment and advisory and Upstream activities in Argentina, Paraguay (and Cono Sur as required) to ensure client's needs and objectives of IFC strategies are met.
- Identify, evaluate, and support complex investments and sector projects by providing critical insights into the country context and the political economy.
- Participate in client selection and help ensure IFC works with appropriate sponsors. Share accountability for the quality and performance of IFC’s portfolio.
- Help with business development and origination of leads in close collaboration with the industry teams based on sector priorities.
- Provide business intelligence to investment teams to enable them to identify integrity issues, to devise adequate investment structuring, and to inform them adequately in the management of portfolio projects and problem cases.
- Provide project development and management input to the Country Senior Manager, program managers, and technical team as needed.
- Assist the different project teams in coordinating missions, including managing relationships with key clients and stakeholders and following up after meetings.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen solutions offered to clients by involving other parts of the WBG based on a good understanding of the products and project requirements of WBG. Lead and participate in specific activities that may be necessary to develop and implement IFC strategy in
- Oversee or supervise and provide leadership to assigned staff and consultants through mentoring, coaching, and providing on-the-job learning opportunities.
- Establish and maintain working-level relationships across IFC, with senior WBG counterparts, and with private sector clients, academia, governments, and other relevant stakeholders to develop business opportunities and strengthen portfolio management.
- Ensure quality control of work products.
- Ensure efficient and effective use of resources.
- Provide input and guidance to the development of IFC’s country strategy and provide substantive input to country diagnostics and WBG strategy documents.

**Corporate Support**
- Participate in designing approaches and interventions to create upstream markets and identifying needed market and regulatory reforms.
- Prepare/coordinate preparation of high-quality briefs for IFC senior management.
- Develop a variety of communication and briefing materials for internal and external audiences.
- Provide support for high profile events and high-level visiting missions.

**Representation**
- Support IFC’s brand and overall communication strategy.
- Represent IFC externally and provide visibility for IFC through organizing and participating in high profile events (high-level visits, seminars, and conferences). Ensure internal and external requests are addressed.
- Lead senior stakeholder discussions in acting capacity, as needed.
- In consultation with the program managers, conduct engagements with clients, stakeholders, and donors.

**Selection Criteria**
- Master's degree, preferably in economics, finance, business administration, public policy, or a si