Professional, Regional Office

Job description / Role

Closing on: June 13, 2024 at 11:59pm (China Standard Time)
Duty Station: Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Gandhinagar, India
Target Market: Global recruitment

Position Objective

The Indian Regional Office (IRO), under the Office of the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (VP&COO), is functionally responsible for client relations and representation of the Bank in India and Bangladesh. The IRO is responsible for project identification and pipeline development, project preparation, project implementation and regional portfolio management. The IRO is also responsible for carrying out additional functions delegated by the VP&COO.

Reporting to the Director General, IRO, the Professional will be actively involved in project identification, pipeline development and implementation of the projects approved by the Board.

Purpose-Analyze

• Keep abreast of and analyze developments that may have an impact on existing projects and apply the information to identify and address planning and implementation issues related to project delivery.
• Identify high-quality projects that may enable the Bank to pursue opportunities in alignment with the Bank’s development agenda.

Engagement-Collaborate

• Collaborate with the other departments of the Bank on originating new projects to ensure their quality and alignment with the Bank’s standards at concept stage.
• Collaborate with sponsors, developers, and counterparts in other multilateral development banks, national development banks, central and state governments and financing institutions to build cooperative engagement in planning and execution of projects.

Delivery- Manage the Project Cycle

• Advise management of the IRO on potential projects and assist clients in enhancing their outcomes, in alignment with the Bank’s planning and implementation cycles.
• Monitor implementation of projects and identify quality issues to ensure achievement of originally envisaged outputs and outcomes.

Requirements:

• Master’s Degree in areas relevant to NDB mandate. Professional qualification such as ACA, CFA, ACCA, or CIMA desirable.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in financing public or private sector projects in the region.
• Fluency in English essential to communicate in writing and speaking.
• Substantive knowledge. Demonstrated capacity gained through advanced training/education in public and private sector projects, reflecting conceptual understanding.
• Conceptual: Render rigorous analysis of specific project designs and activities.
• Applied: Explore and arrive at solutions appropriate to client needs and utilize standard approaches that require limited adaptation and consistent with well-defined project/program objectives.
• Communication skills. Demonstrated skill gained through exposure to interactions with internal and external stakeholders. Internal: Communicate inputs and insights to team to enable integration of work outputs as part of a coordinated deliverable.
• External: Engage with clients to ensure comprehension of needs and build understanding of these requirements for their timely fulfilment.
• Execution skills: Demonstrated achievement in the execution/delivery of programs.
• Timeliness: Deliver outputs in a manner consistent with standard timeframes to support the work of others and meet client needs.
• Quality: Deliver outputs which are consistent in quality and relevant to client.

About the Company

The New Development Bank (NDB) is a multilateral development bank (MDB) established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) with the objective of financing infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other emerging economies and developing countries. NDB’s work complements the efforts of multilateral and regional financial institutions, toward global growth and development.

Our work is centered around maximizing the impact of development in a fast, flexible and efficient manner. To catalyze the kind of development we envisage, we are always keen to listen, learn and collaborate with other MDBs, governments, financial institutions and social organizations.

To fulfill its purpose, the Bank supports public or private projects through loans, guarantees, equity participation and other financial instruments.

Our headquarters is in Shanghai, China. The geographic distribution of NDB’s operations is becoming increasingly balanced as the Bank develops its capacity to identify and prepare projects in all member countries. The first regional office of NDB – the Africa Regional Centre (ARC) – was opened in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2017. In July 2019, NDB began to build the Americas Regional Office team, based in São Paulo, Brazil, with a sub-office in Brasília. NDB and the Government of Russia signed the Agreement on the Hosting of the NDB Eurasian Regional Centre in Moscow, Russia on the sidelines of the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasília in November 2019.