Senior Portfolio Officer, Sovereign-Based Finance - greater london, england, United Kingdom - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Description

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank whose mission is financing infrastructure for tomorrow in Asia and beyond—infrastructure with sustainability at its core. We began operations in Beijing in 2016 and have since grown to 110 approved members worldwide. We are capitalized at USD100 billion and AAA-rated by the major international credit rating agencies. Collaborating with partners, AIIB meets clients needs by unlocking new capital and investing in infrastructure that is green technology-enabled and promotes regional connectivity.

Public Sector Clients Department Region 2

The Public Sector Clients Department Region 2 is responsible for identifying originating preparing executing and investing in projects with public sector clients in Pakistan Afghanistan Central Asia East Asia West Asia Europe North Africa and Latin America across the range of AIIB-covered sectors through various financing instruments and solutions.

This department leads the coverage of public sector clients including state-owned enterprises overseeing project preparation due diligence and project approval processes ensuring key economic commercial financial and legal issues are considered and incorporated in the financing structure and legal documentation and followed through during the implementation phase.

Senior Portfolio Officer Role

The Senior Portfolio Officer is responsible for supervising the implementation of sovereign-based financed projects. They will also be responsible for project management providing technical advice and support to government counterparts and implementing agencies.

The Senior Portfolio Officer reports directly to the DG Public Sector Clients Department Region 2 and coordinates with the Corporate Portfolio and Data Analytics team in Portfolio Management Department.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Portfolio Officers key responsibilities include:

• Developing the project implementation schedule based on the project management strategy and monitoring progress and reporting.
• Advising and regular reporting on all project matters project progress and results for project overall activities.
• Serving as primary focal point for the day-to-day operations and administration of the project implementation unit and ensuring project implementation is on track.
• Taking the lead on all activities from an overall project management perspective on planning resource management risk management quality assurance and reporting.
• Working together with both government counterparts implementing agencies and construction teams on maintaining project implementation progress.
• Coordinating the implementation monitoring and evaluation of project activities in accordance with the projects legal agreements annual project plans and other project appraisal documents.
• Ensuring implementation compliance in relation to the provision of the projectgrant agreement ensuring that all project expenditures are eligible for financing and in accordance with the approved annual project plan for sound financial management.
• Coordinating the design of project-related documents and templates with departmental management and team members.
• Regular evaluation and monitoring of project inputs and outputs and their alignment to corporate strategy.
• Maintaining and updating the projects risk mitigation plan and continuously identifying evaluating and prioritizing risks.
• Critical review of project outputs including the deliverables of project consultants and contractors and ensuring they are aligned to required quality standards and timeliness and authorizing their submission andrelease as appropriate when complete.
• Overseeing the procurement process to ensure effective implementation of all the subprojects under the project including supervision and oversight of the goods works and turnkey contracts.
• Regularly conducting onsite project missions to ensure timely implementation of project activities with more frequent missions on projects with higher risk rating.
• In collaboration with the relevant AIIB departments implementing agencies and other project specialists and government counterparts communicating with all project stakeholders as appropriate to ensure broader project support by project beneficiaries nongovernmental organizations and civil society.
• Assisting implementing agencies and other government counterparts with the preparation of the project audit accounts and reports as required by AIIB.
• Coordinating environmental and social safeguard land acquisition and resettlement activities and project gender monitoring and updating of all resettlement environmental and gender plans as required.
• Leading the preparation and finalization of project completion reports as required by AIIB.
• Conducting and actively managing capacity development activities of the project for the implementing agencies and other counterparts assigned to the project.

Requirements:

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 8-10 years of relevant experience in project and portfolio management and research-related activities and at least 5 years of supervisory experience.
• In-depth knowledge of project and portfolio management practices and procedures.
• Experience in the preparation of reports and publications for various internal and external AIIB audiences.
• Exposure to multilateral procurement and consultant recruitment procedures and systems.
• Effective report-writing and communication skills in English.
• Strong analytical communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in guidingmentoring officersanalysts in producing high-quality outputs within stipulated timeframes.

AIIb is committed to diversity transparency and inclusion. We believe our strength comes from having a team with the right diverse skills experiences and abilities selected through a merit-based competitive process. We actively encourage applications from people from both within and outside AIIB members regardless of nationality religion gender race disability or sexual orientation.

Previous experience and qualifications will determine the grade and job title at which successful applicants will enter AIIB.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package and a dynamic work environment that fosters career growth and professional development.