E T Consultant Sustainable Finance and Capital Markets, Latin America and Caribbean Region

The Extended Term Consultant (ETC) will support the implementation, coordination, and expansion of sustainable finance and capital markets initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. The role involves business development, project design and implementation, stakeholder engagement, research, and project management to promote sustainable financial markets and climate finance.

Responsibilities

• Support the identification and development of advisory opportunities and client engagements aligned with IFC's strategic priorities.
• Conduct market, sector, regulatory, and stakeholder research.
• Prepare proposals, pitch presentations, concept notes, and business development materials.
• Analyze opportunities related to sustainable finance, climate finance, capital markets, corporate governance, financial inclusion, and ESG integration.
• Map and assess financial institutions, NBFIs, issuers, investors, stock exchanges, regulators, and industry associations.
• Support discussions with existing and prospective clients and partners.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities that can strengthen capital markets, mobilize private capital, and increase access to finance.
• Support project design, planning, budgeting, staffing, and monitoring frameworks.
• Assist with project launches, internal approval processes, legal documentation, and compliance requirements.
• Coordinate project activities, meetings, workshops, trainings, missions, and stakeholder consultations.
• Prepare technical reports, client deliverables, presentations, and implementation roadmaps.
• Assist in the delivery of advisory activities related to sustainable finance, climate finance, governance, risk management, disclosure frameworks, issuer readiness, and investor engagement.
• Support capacity-building activities for financial institutions, issuers, investors, regulators, exchanges, and other market participants.
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, investors, financial institutions, NBFIs, stock exchanges, regulators, development partners, and industry associations.
• Support the organization of industry events, conferences, roundtables, trainings, workshops, and working groups.
• Facilitate collaboration among IFC, the World Bank, clients, and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to initiatives that promote sustainable finance, climate finance, good governance, capital market development, and private sector participation.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Prepare market diagnostics, benchmarking exercises, sector assessments, and analytical reports.
• Support research related to sustainable finance regulations, taxonomies, disclosure frameworks, climate risk management, governance standards, financial inclusion, and capital market development.
• Synthesize technical information into clear and actionable recommendations.
• Develop presentations, briefing materials, dashboards, and knowledge products for internal and external audiences.
• Support the dissemination of lessons learned and best practices across countries and projects.
• Track project activities, deliverables, milestones, budgets, and workplans.
• Coordinate supervision reporting, monitoring and evaluation activities, and KPI tracking.
• Update project information within IFC systems and maintain project documentation.
• Support consultant procurement, contracting processes, and vendor management.
• Assist with donor reporting, management reporting, budgeting exercises, and portfolio reviews.
• Help ensure compliance with IFC policies, procedures, and project management requirements.
• Maintain regular communication with project teams, management, clients, and partners.
• Support coordination across multiple projects, workstreams, and countries.
• Contribute to internal and external communication materials.
• Prepare management updates, summaries, and briefing notes.
• Capture lessons learned, emerging market trends, and opportunities for replication and scale-up.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, International Development, Environmental Sciences, Engineering, or related specialty.
• A minimum of 5 to 8 years of experience in the financial services, development finance, capital markets, sustainable finance, or management consulting.
• Relevant knowledge of the financial sector (financial institutions and capital markets), sustainability, sustainable finance, and climate finance.
• Experience working in LAC, preferably in Mexico.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across countries, cultures, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of international financial institutions and development finance; familiarity with the World Bank Group and IFC would be an advantage.
• Relevant experience with drafting and presenting consulting proposals and implementing advisory projects, preferably for financial sector clients.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, including market research, and ability to understand and present financial metrics.
• Solid skills in drafting high impact presentations in PowerPoint.
• Competent in Excel in building analytical tools and templates (pivot tables, graphs, etc.).
• Ability to present information in an insightful and structured manner, both written and orally.
• Result oriented individual with high attention to detail, and solid capacity to synthesize information.
• Ability to be proactive, communicate ideas clearly, articulate issues, and recommend solutions.
• Ability to manage several work-streams concurrently, effectively, under tight deadlines.

Skills

• Sustainable Finance
• Capital Markets
• Development Finance
• Financial Services
• Management Consulting
• Quantitative Analysis
• Qualitative Analysis
• Market Research
• Financial Metrics
• Power Point
• Excel
• Consulting Proposals
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Business Development
• Climate Finance
• Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration
• Banking Sector Knowledge
• International Financial Institutions
• Advisory Project Implementation

Languages

English, Spanish