Responsibilities include:

• Lead efforts to mobilize private sector investments across the agriculture, trade, apparel, climate finance for adaptation/mobilization, WASH, and other high-impact sectors
• Manage investor relations. Build and maintain strong partnerships with the private sector
• Oversee activities to support financial institutions in increasing the availability of custom products in order to address financing needs of SMEs and rural farming communities
• Recommend technical assistance for capital-seeking businesses and link with services providers that can strengthen the company’s management and operational activities to facilitate growth and investment
• Provide advisory support to businesses
• Work with the COP and Regulatory and Policy Team Lead to identify trends in regulatory constraints in the transaction cycle, as well as lessons learned to improve policy reform
• Seek out and actively engage local firms dedicated to inclusivity and innovation, deliberately ensuring interventions benefit underrepresented groups and apply a gender equity and social inclusion lens to investments
• Other duties as assigned

Qualification Required & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, business administration, or a related field required
• Minimum 7 years of experience identifying and mobilizing private sector investments
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain professional relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders, including investors, financiers, and the private sector
• Experience designing investment promotion campaigns, conducting outreach programs, and engaging in investment forums in key sectors
• Proven ability to collaborate with government officials, international donors, and other?local partners. Experience with multi-sectoral programs that address agriculture, climate mitigation and adaptation, trade, apparel, WASH, renewable energy, or a combination of the above
• Experience working in West Africa, preferably in Ghana
• Experience with USAID programming highly preferred
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Fluency in English required. Proficiency in at Twi or another local language highly desired

Location: Accra

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Closing Date: 22 January, 2025