Associate Investment Officer, Upstream

**Associate Investment Officer, Upstream & Advisory, FIG LAC Region**

**Job #**:

- req34525

**Organization**:

- IFC

**Sector**:

- Investment

**Grade**:

- GF

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Mexico City,Mexico; Sao Paulo, Brazil

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

**Preferred Language(s)**:

- Portuguese, Spanish

**Closing Date**:

- 10/10/2025 (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.

IFC has embarked on an ambitious new growth strategy (IFC 3.0) to stimulate more investment activity in frontier markets. This strategy calls for generating our own opportunities by proactively working “Upstream” to create, deepen, and expand markets and to imagine, design and implement investment projects. It requires taking a systematic approach to understanding the regulatory and sector bottlenecks that prevent the flow of private capital into productive investment in our member countries and addressing these bottlenecks through World Bank Group engagement on policy reforms and programmatic interventions at the country and sector level. It also requires capacity to leverage WBG programs and projects to develop our own proactive sector interventions and to imagine and design projects even in the absence of reforms.

At the same time, IFC has pledged to significantly increase its investments in climate-related projects and to promote digitalization across industries and sectors, to further sustainability and inclusiveness in emerging markets. IFC plans to deliver on these commitments by working with clients to help them develop and implement their own climate and digitalization strategies and projects. Key areas of focus include the promotion of low-carbon solutions, including renewable energy, green buildings, circularity, and resource efficiency, and increased use of technology and artificial intelligence.

The Financial Institutions Group (FIG) is one of the industry groups at IFC responsible for managing roughly 40% of IFC’s overall business in terms of volume, capital at risk, profitability, and development reach. FIG engages in a wide range of sub-sectors including Microfinance, SME, Gender, Climate, Insurance, Capital Markets, Housing, Distressed Assets, Global Trade Finance, and other areas. FIG provides investment and advisory solutions to hundreds of financial intermediaries in emerging markets to enable them to play a positive role in economic growth. FIG’s Upstream Advisory Services are closely coordinated with investment operations and help banks and Financial Institutions (FIs) to build or improve their operations in several areas, including development of local Capital Markets.

The FIG Upstream Advisory Team provides specialized support to guide public and private institutions to leverage opportunities for private sector led investments made possible using distinct tools and interventions, including investment structuring, advisory and policy reform. The objective of the unit is to enhance the next generation of FIG investments across priority sectors in the region that help to promote new and/or improved jobs. The team seeks an Associate Investment Officer (AIO) with expertise in sustainable financial markets to support innovative and impactful engagements that increase and improve sustainable job generation across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

**Duties and Accountabilities**

The AIO will be part of the FIG Upstream Advisory Team in the LAC region. Reporting to the Regional Upstream Advisory Services Manager, the AIO will be primarily responsible for enabling investment opportunities in the LAC region by: (1) incubating high-impact projects and initiatives that require upstream project development to reach the point of investment, and (2) getting potential clients ready for IFC investment through client preparation and development.
- Work with the FIG Upstream Advisory staff to leverage opportunities with key partners in the region based on country/sector strategies and client/market needs, and market creation potential;
- Monitor pipeline and portfolio projects, actively supporting in deal origination and project supervision, reporting to management whenever needed;
- Develop project proposals/client pitches and meet with potential clients and other market stakeholders to