Investment Officer, Infrastructurenew

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 . IFC is looking to recruit an Investment Officer for its Africa Infrastructure department.

The hiring group is responsible for sourcing, executing and supervising investment transactions in the energy, transport, telecoms and municipal environmental infrastructure sectors in Africa. IFC’s Investment Officers are responsible for the origination, negotiation, structuring and subsequent portfolio supervision of IFC’s investment projects. This position is expected to cover all infrastructure sectors and is based in Cotonou Benin.

The selected candidate will report to the Regional Industry Manager for West Africa. Duties and accountabilities The Investment Officer will identify new investment opportunities, execute transactions and actively manage portfolio projects in Africa.

• Business

Development

Source and assess opportunities, identify bankable projects anticipating market trends and employing sector/country knowledge; synthesize information into internal reports for decision making purposes.

• Structuring

and Negotiation

Evaluate, structure, negotiate, and close new debt and equity transactions, portfolio restructurings, capital increases, equity sales, etc. Develop innovative and appropriate financial structures for complex transactions.

• Deal

Execution and Transaction Management

Deliver all transactions and accountabilities of the role efficiently, on a timely and expeditious basis and using best practice standards. Ensure that defined transactional requirements recorded in documentation are executed accordingly. Monitor the portfolio and report development results internally and externally.

Coordinate closely with social, environmental, legal, and technical assistance colleagues in structuring transactions, to add value to our clients' business, find pragmatic solutions to project and sector challenges, and achieve sustainable development impact.

• Portfolio

Supervision

Provide overall leadership to the team in actively managing the portfolio; report on the profitability and development impact of the portfolio; monitor the overall risk of the portfolio; supervise compliance with IFC financial, environmental, legal and other requirements; supervise and prepare any necessary documentation for internal processes.

• Strategy

Development and Knowledge Sharing

Contribute to drafting strategies for sectors, countries, or regions for business development; and develop and execute strategies for more complex client engagements with the objective of building a robust investment pipeline. Build IFC's knowledge base for best practices and participate in knowledge sharing and dissemination. Initiate collaboration and share expertise as a subject matter expert, providing advice, peer review and contribution to knowledge products across WBG to strengthen internal and/or external client solutions.

Promoting the IFC brand and representing IFC at various conferences and workshops.

• Coordination

with WBG

Support World Bank and MIGA colleagues on sector reform and unblocking constraints to attracting private sector capital.

• Mentoring and coaching: mentor and coach less-experienced colleagues to help build talent and grow the skill base of staff.