Senior Project Manager - Joint Technical Assistance for the Latin America and the Caribbean Investment Facilities (LAIF and CIF)

Position: Senior Project Manager - Joint Technical Assistance for the Latin America and the Caribbean Investment Facilities (LAIF and CIF)

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Starting date: February 2022 (indicative)

Duration of project: 36 months

Expert input: 520 working days

Project: Joint Technical Assistance for the Latin America Investment Facility (LAIF) and the Caribbean Investment Facility (CIF)

The overall objective of the assignment is to improve the quality the projects financed, to enhance the pipeline, to contribute to capacity building, to strengthen monitoring tools, to improve overall visibility, to support the LACIF management team in the daily administration of the facilities and to enhance coherence between both facilities and with the guarantee instruments under the EFSD+. 

Profile required

Qualifications & Skills required:

• University degree or 5 years of equivalent working experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Extensive knowledge of EU development cooperation programmes, project cycle management and EU contractual and financial procedures (minimum of 5 years)
• Extensive knowledge of blended finance and experience managing blending projects (minimum of 3 years)
• Extensive experience on monitoring and results reporting (minimum of 3 years)
• Knowledge of capital markets, financial instruments, blending instruments, impact investment, trust fund management will be positively valuedevidenced by design, formulation, implementation and or supervision of blending projects and/or policy work in the area of financing instruments (minimum of 3 years).
• Excellent command of English and Spanish

General professional experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in the management and implementation of multi-country, regional or bilateral cooperation programmes including contractual and financial procedures
• Minimum 3 years of experience working in or with development banks, national, regional or international institutions (external consultant or staff)

Specific professional experience:

• Proven experience (min duration of 5 years) in development cooperation projects in Latin America and/or the Caribbean
• Proven experience in monitoring and results reporting for development cooperation projects (min duration of 5 years)
• Proven experience (min duration of 3 years) in the set-up and implementation of trainings,seminars and workshops (including digital tools)

The deadline for receiving applications is 23rd August 2021. All suitable candidates are invited to apply as soon as possible, before the closing date and send their updated CV to Ms. Ruth Sánchez Loureda rsanchez@equinoccio.eu, with the subject: Senior Project Manager - LACIF.

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