E T Consultant – Corporate Governance Advisory, LAC Regionnew

At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives.

In fiscal year 2026, IFC committed a record $105.6 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries. For more information, visit www.ifc.org. The Corporate Governance (CG) Advisory ET Consultant is a project management and coordination function responsible for assisting in implementing CG Advisory projects in specific countries, with focus on implementing the SME Accelerator, including responsibilities over project-level results and development outcomes.

The role reports to the CG regional leadership team. This posting is for one position posted across multiple possible duty stations that includes Lima, Peru or Bogota, Colombia. The selected candidate's duty station will be determined by the Hiring Manager based on organizational requirements and business needs.

Duties and accountabilities

• Lead the coordination and roll out, under the supervision of the local CG team, the SME Accelerator in the countries under their purview, with close coordination with the global team for high quality and consistent delivery, and with strong developmental outcomes, including gathering results data on SMEs implementing recommendations and job creation.
• Support analysis to assist the CG team in developing, implementing and monitoring advisory projects in line with IFC’s Advisory Governance Policies and Procedures.
• Assist in developing project documents (Concept Notes, Implementation Plans, Project Supervision Reports, Project Completion Reports), and updates on project progress, under the supervision of the PL.
• Supporting client engagement selection, documentation and systems, including conducting integrity due diligence (IDD), preparing legal agreements and legal cover memos for all counterparties that the projects engage with.
• Monitoring of development results and collecting relevant evidence to substantiate project results using standard tools and platforms and entering results into iPortal.
• Internal system processing and liaising with corporate procurement for selecting and contracting individual contractors and firm vendors for the delivery of specific project activities as per components below.
• Liaising with finance officers to monitor project spending; assist in revising budgets and tracking contracts and payments. Entering financial information in IBIS.
• Specific support for each component includes: Firm

Level

• Assist in drafting proposals for clients, including budgeting using the pricing tool, entering IDD, drafting legal agreements with clients and filing legal cover memos, supporting IC/vendor selection for delivery.
• Organizing and participating in discussions with clients, preparing minutes and follow-up on next steps.
• Monitoring of development results and collecting relevant evidence to substantiate project results using standard tools and platforms (Client outcome and impact survey, Performance Indicator Scoring Tool and impact memo).
• Entering firm results into project budgeting and reporting systems. Market level:
• Assist in the selection and processing of market intermediaries, including drafting selection documentation, legal agreements, filing legal cover memos and other selection administration, supporting IC/vendor selection.
• Coordinate logistics and support the delivery of capacity building activities for market intermediaries (institutes, associations, consulting firms, etc.) such as Training of Trainer and other capacity development workshops.
• Monitoring of development results and collecting relevant evidence to substantiate project results using standard tools and platforms (Partner reporting forms and Capacity Measurement Tool).
• Entering market results into project budgeting and reporting systems. Regulatory level:
• Assist in coordinating scope of work for regulatory partners, conducting and submitting IDD, drafting cooperation agreements, filing legal cover memos, supporting IC/vendor selection.
• Coordinate logistics and support the delivery of advice to regulators on improvements to CG-related laws and codes that will improve governance in the private sector.
• Monitoring of development results and collecting relevant evidence to substantiate project results using standard tools and platforms.
• Entering regulatory results into project budgeting and reporting systems.