AfDB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT - DIVISION MANAGER, STRATEGIC PRIVATE SECTOR RELATIONSHIPS

• Position title: Division Manager, Strategic Private Sector Relationships
• Grade: PL2
• Position N°: 50092431
• Reference: ADB/17/039
• Publication date: 04/05/2017
• Closing date: 25/05/2017
• Country: Côte d’Ivoire

THE BANK:

Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 member states, including 54 in Africa (Regional Member Countries). The Bank’s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth. In order to sharply focus the objectives of the Ten Year Strategy (2013 – 2022) and ensure greater developmental impact, five major areas (High 5s), all of which will accelerate our delivery for Africa, have been identified for scaling up, namely; energy, agro-business, industrialization, integration and improving the quality of life for the people of Africa. The Bank is seeking to build a management team that will lead the successful implementation of this vision. 

THE POSITION:

The Manager of the Strategic Private Sector Relationships Division will have the overall responsibility to build and manage relationships with anchor (global/regional) industry players (corporates, project developers), public and private financial institutions, institutional investors, investment funds and related industry associations. This involves regular interaction with and mobilization of finance/investment from these actors. 

Duties and responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the Director, Energy Partnerships, the incumbent will perform the following duties :

1. Lead the Transformative Partnership on Energy for Africa in aspects of coordination related to key strategic private sector stakeholders. 
2. Manage the “Strategic Private Sector Relationships” Division to build and manage relationships with anchor (global/regional/national) industry players (corporates, project developers), public and private financial institutions, institutional investors and related industry associations. 
3. Establish and manage a database with key strategic private sector partners for the energy sector (including but not limited to international/local project developers, international/local corporates, international/regional/local financial institutions, Multilateral Development Banks /Development Financial Institutions, international/regional/local institutional investors, industry associations, foundations etc.).

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