Project Officer, Sustainable Public Procurement and Infrastructure Finance

Project Officer, Sustainable Public Procurement and Infrastructure Finance
IISD Office, Geneva, Switzerland

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has as its mission to promote human development and environmental sustainability through innovative research, communication and partnerships. The institute has offices in Canada, Switzerland and the United States, and operates in over 70 countries around the world. IISD’s core strengths center on advancing integrated, multidisciplinary and leading-edge perspectives and real-world solutions to sustainability challenges.

The project officer will contribute to the work of the Sustainable Public Procurement and Infrastructure Finance Program of IISD’s Economic Law and Policy Cluster, focusing on promoting smart and sustainable procurement of goods, services and infrastructure. S/he will function as researcher and advisor on sustainable public procurement, the procurement of infrastructure, public private partnerships (PPPs) and sustainable infrastructure financing.

Specific duties will include: 
• Advising national governments on policies and instruments of infrastructure financing in a manner that provides for economic growth, social justice and stewardship of the natural environment, developing initiatives aimed at re-engineering infrastructure financing systems while increasing the literacy on infrastructure finance among sustainable development policy-makers.
• Developing innovative infrastructure financing products and instruments to capitalise local enterprises and green projects in low-income countries designed to promote sustainable economic growth.
• Analysing on-going policy and regulatory reforms, developing dedicated policy recommendations, and facilitating formal dialogues with partners and opinion leaders on how public procurement and infrastructure financing policies and processes can be upgraded to deliver on sustainable development. 
• Providing technical assistance to governments to realise value-for-money across the life cycle of public assets through the strengthening of legal and regulatory provisions and the incorporation of environmental and social criteria into the public procurement and infrastructure financing strategies.
• Contributing to generating quantitative evidence on the multiplier financial, economic, social and environmental gains that can be realised through sustainable public procurement and sustainable infrastructure finance.
• Support policy-makers and public procurers achieve transformational change through positing their large and long-term spending power as a trigger for scaling-up industrial competitiveness, innovation and technology transfer.

Reporting Relationship:
The project officer reports to the Director, Sustainable Public Procurement and Infrastructure Finance.




Skills:
• Expertise in banking and project finance with a deep understanding of macro-economic factors and their relationships with public procurement and infrastructure.
• Expertise in one or more of the following:
o Design of financial products and instruments such as credit lines, investments, risk mitigation instruments and other credit enhancement mechanisms.
o Experience managing investment and/or asset portfolios whose total value at any given time has been in excess of CHF 1 Billion.
o Knowledge of sources of public procurement and infrastructure finance data at the international and country levels.
o Knowledge of public accounting and their numerical and political interpretation.
• Technical expertise evaluating public procurement policies of both developed and developing countries; knowledge of quantitative as well as economic and energy-use modelling methods would be an advantage. 
• Experience working with the machinery of government, particularly fiscal, industrial and energy policy.
• Practical knowledge of approaches to structural reforms such as policy reform, including political economy aspects, compensation measures for lower-income groups, complementary policies and structural adjustment programs.
• Ability to present research findings to professional gatherings and journalists.
• Excellent professional English writing skills is imperative.
• Working proficiency of other languages, especially Chinese, French, Spanish and Portuguese would be an advantage.

Qualifications
Applicants should possess the following qualifications: 

• A minimum of a Master’s degree in finance, economics or equivalent.
• A minimum of 7 years relevant work experience.
• Familiarity with sustainable development, public procurement policy and infrastructure financing theory and toolkits.
• Demonstrated record of publications on sustainable public procurement, infrastructure finance and green economy issues.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Availability to travel internationally.
• Excellent English-language written and spoken; our working language is English.
• Computer skills (i.e. MS Office, including Excel and Word, etc.).
• Swiss nationality, Swiss residence or work permit, or EU nationality.

Salary range depending on experience.

Starting date: 1st September 2015


Application procedure
Please send a CV (no longer than two pages, including the names, phone numbers and email addresses of two referees) as well as a covering letter (one page) and writing sample in English to geneva@iisd.org. Electronic applications are preferred; there is no need to provide hard copies.

The deadline for applications is July 31, 2015.

IISD is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity, age, gender or disability.
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