Key Expert IV: Urban Investments Finance Expert (with missions to Portugal)

SIMAB – Municipal Markets in Portugal

The support delivered by the Service Provider will complement SIMAB in the preparation of the operational program in those areas where external expertise is needed:

i)     Design of a funding and financing solution that enable easy access by municipalities to the necessary financial resources to undertake the modernisation of municipal markets.

ii)    Design of state-of-the-art interventions in the fields of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and urban integration of the market buildings and surrounding public space areas.

iii)  Analysis of state-of-the-art alternative business models for investment, operation and management of municipal markets, feasible for the characteristics of the Portuguese municipal market sector.

iv)  Design and implementation of a pilot project including a set of municipal markets suitable and ready for investment, including the preparation of feasibility studies and investment plans for a set of selected municipal markets suitable and ready for investment.

Key Expert IV: Urban Investments Finance Expert (Category II)

Qualifications: At least a Bachelor’s Degree in economics, finance, banking, business administration or related discipline, and/or engineering related field (Minimum requirement).

General professional experience:  At least 10 years’ professional experience working in urban infrastructure projects (Minimum requirement).

Specific professional experience:

·         At least 8 years of advisory or project delivery experience in project planning, design, and implementation phases in property development supporting urban renewal (Minimum requirement).

·         Previous experience related to the financing of urban property development projects with the preparation of economic/financial studies, investment plans and/or viability studies, as demonstrated by the expert’s involvement in at least 5 different projects (Minimum requirement).

·         Experience in municipal market buildings projects (Advantage).

Language and other Skills: Working command of English language (CEFR C1) (Minimum requirement). Working command of Portuguese language (Minimum requirement).