Investment Officer, Upstream Advisory, Agribusiness, Lac Region

**Investment Officer, Upstream Advisory, Agribusiness, LAC Region****Job #**:- req32676**Organization**:- IFC**Sector**:- Investment**Grade**:- GG**Term Duration**:- 3 years 0 months**Recruitment Type**:- International Recruitment**Location**:- Mexico City,Mexico**Required Language(s)**:- English**Preferred Language(s)**:- Spanish or Portuguese**Closing Date**:- 4/23/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**The IFC 3.0 strategy aims to stimulate more investment activity across emerging markets, especially in Low Income Countries (LICs) and Fragile and Conflict affected States (FCS). This strategy aims to create new opportunities for private investments in riskier markets and sectors by proactively working “upstream” to create, deepen, and expand markets and design and develop potential investment projects. Achieving these growth and impact ambitions at scale requires a different approach to business development, deal sourcing, and client support that relies on 1) a broader product offering to engage earlier in the project cycle and secure opportunities; 2) a greater focus on preparing clients in nascent markets and sectors for investment; 3) a greater focus on value addition and risk management of portfolio investment clients to enhance their performance; and 4) a longer time horizon and a more patient, longer-term perspective.In this context, IFC is seeking an Upstream Investment Officer for its Agribusiness and Forestry Upstream and Advisory program in the Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Region. The Upstream Investment Officer will work as part of the Upstream and Advisory LAC team in enabling investment opportunities, enhancing investment outcomes, and improving investment conditions in the agribusiness sector in the LAC region- critical activities for the corporation to deliver on its ambitious strategy.The Upstream Investment Officer will be based in Mexico City, Mexico, and is expected to frequently visit (travel permitting) other countries where clients are based. The Upstream Investment Officer will closely collaborate with the Agribusiness and Manufacturing Investment teams covering Latin America and the Caribbean, with a strong focus on the country of placement, to ensure a coordinated provision of services that span the continuum of IFC’s operations - across idea generation, enabling environment, project development and client preparation and investment. S/he will also work together with relevant Industry Specialists and experts in the World Bank, leveraging skills and knowledge across the WBG.**Duties and Accountabilities**- Enable investment opportunities in the Agribusiness space by 1) incubating high-impact projects and initiatives that require upstream project development to reach the point of investment and 2) getting potential clients ready for IFC investment through client preparation and development.- Lead structuring, processing and negotiation of investment transactions throughout IFC project cycle.- Enhance investment outcomes in Agribusiness through Upstream and Advisory projects that 1) increase the development impact of IFC investments and 2) improve the performance of IFC investment portfolio clients, through the provision of value-additive and risk-mitigation services.- Improve investment conditions in the Agribusiness sector by 1) Leading and/or collaborating with other teams across IFC and the WBG efforts to drive sector-wide change in priority areas and 2) Leading and/or collaborating with other teams across IFC and the WBG efforts to open new markets for private sector participation.- Support business development efforts, together with investment, regional/country, and global Industry teams and ensure high level of client satisfaction.- Work closely with sector and country leads to foster cross-departmental collaboration and ensure the efficient deployment of staffing, resources, products and solutions to meet client-specific requirements.- Work closely with Global units in the designing/piloting of global products, knowledge sharing, and maintenance of pipeline/portfolio quality in Agribusiness.- Engage with and establish partnerships with thought leaders and decision makers across the World Bank Group and externally to foster innovative thinking about the creation of new markets and to identify and implement sector and regulatory reforms to unlock private investment opportunities, including leveraging the Bank’s lending program.- Active collaboration and engagement with the Partnerships department to proactively contribute to donor engagement strategy, relationship management, and reporting.- Spot game-changing trends, technologies and business models that can increase development impact and present opportunities for high-value proprietary engagements in the Agribusiness sector.- Disseminate and absorb knowledge and experience across the regional industry department and global teams to support adoption of n