Investment Officer

**Investment Officer - Blended Finance**

**Job #**:

- req34521

**Organization**:

- IFC

**Sector**:

- Investment

**Grade**:

- GF

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Singapore,Singapore

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 10/17/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.

**About Blended Finance**

Blended Finance is a key tool in the execution of IFC’s 3.0 strategy Creating Markets. The Blended Finance Department now manages a pool of contributor funds of over $7 billion focused on accelerating IFC’s engagement in the most developmentally impactful areas: IDA and FCS countries, climate, SME and agriculture. The blended concessional facilities managed by the Blended Finance team is structured to co-finance, along with IFC funding, investment projects to address market barriers in private sector projects. These funds are deployed alongside IFC's own resources, thus enabling IFC to invest in projects that would not otherwise take place without a co-investment on concessional terms.

The Blended Finance team’s role is to optimize the co-investment of funds from contributors, on concessional terms and consider the contributors' risk appetite, and in line with IFC's blended finance approach, governance and principles. Such concessional funds are able to accept higher risk/ lower return than commercial funds while not providing pure grants.

The Blended Finance - New Business and Portfolio (CBFNP) division sits in the Partnerships & Blended Finance Department. Within this division, there are investment officers that work on blended finance transactions supporting IFC’s regional and industry departments. These blended finance transactions may use different blended finance facilities, including the IDA Private sector Window (PSW), Concessional Capital Window (CCW), the Frontier Opportunities Fund (FOF), and other the Blended Finance for Climate facilities, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), SME-, or agriculture-focused blended finance facilities. The goal of this work is to enable IFC to have a much deeper impact and footprint in the most difficult countries and sectors through blended finance investments.

**Duties & Accountabilities**

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Work with teams to identify and assess potential Blended Finance projects (including projects to be processed under the IDA PSW, CCW, FOF and BFF and LCF, the various Blended Finance for Climate, GAFSP Private Sector Window, the Gates Foundation partnership, the Global SME Finance and the Women Entrepreneur Financing Facility (We-Fi) and other blended finance facilities) and innovative programs/platforms and liaise with staff to monitor and support the expansion of Blended Finance pipeline.
- Contribute to investment structuring related to the blended finance component of projects, platforms & programs including modeling of respective risks and subsidies, and to assess the products/structure that meets the project needs and has an adequate risk/return for the contributor.
- Work closely with IFC investment teams to prepare and take responsibility for documentation and processing of blended finance co-investment to Blended Finance Committee/Director and for contributing to the IFC investment proposal, Board documentation and client legal agreements.
- Attend appraisal on an as-needed basis depending on transaction team need for additional skills and analysis to be provided by the blended finance investment officer or if proposed co-investment structure has significantly different interests than the IFC investment requiring independent judgement on behalf of the donors.
- Liaise with relevant staff and identify and monitor weaknesses, risks and early warning signals in the portfolio of contributor-funded projects to assess progress and performance.
- Analyze and process client requests, including disbursements, waivers, and amendments related to the contributor-funded co-investment.
- Assist in the preparation of analytical reports, strategy documents, briefs and project profiles.
- Contribute to team's knowledge management initiative, including communication products to share information and lessons of Blended Finance co-investments with internal