Technical Specialist, Critical Minerals and Investment

The Technical Specialist serves as a core technical resource to SEforALL’s Green Industrialisation Hub and the Council for Critical Mineral Development in the Global South. The role leads the assessment of financing bottlenecks, policy and structuring reforms to mobilize investment and designs a scalable investment framework to accelerate mineral-to-green industrialization across Africa and Southeast Asia.

Responsibilities

• Provide a strategic synthesis of global/regional trends shaping critical minerals and green industrialisation.
• Build upon existing demand/supply analyses and energy transition plans to quantify investment requirements and financing gaps across selected African and Southeast Asian value chains.
• Map and survey relevant stakeholders, including investors, financiers, DFIs, sovereign wealth funds, and industry players across the value chain to analyze investment barriers.
• Re-assess drivers of investment risk and identify conditions required to mobilize domestic capital into commercially viable projects.
• Evaluate existing financing platforms, blended-finance instruments, and industrial financing mechanisms to identify opportunities for alignment.
• Review international experiences and transferable financing models to inform pathways for domestic industrial development and value capture in the African context.
• Assess the feasibility of a dedicated financing mechanism and evaluate capitalization approaches.
• Propose design options, including mandate, governance, and investment criteria, and develop an implementation roadmap with partnership models for scaling domestic investment.
• Conduct mapping and engage with key stakeholders, including government entities, private sector actors, and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).
• Organize high-level consultation to validate proposed financing mechanisms and ensure institutional alignment.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Development, Law, International Relations, Engineering or a related field.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s) in the above fields combined with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in investment banking, mining value chain project finance, development finance, or energy or economic policy development.
• Demonstrated expertise in green industrialization and critical minerals value chains.
• Experience collaborating with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), and Sovereign Wealth Funds to design and structure investment facilities or industrial development frameworks.
• Experience in conducting high-level stakeholder consultations with government officials, private equity investors, and multilateral partners.
• Advanced analytical expertise with a proven ability to translate complex investment constraints (e.g., currency volatility, high cost of capital) into actionable, bankable financing mechanisms.
• Experience in the African and/or Southeast Asian institutional capital and/or minerals development landscape.

Skills

• Investment Banking
• Mining Value Chain Finance
• Development Finance
• Economic Policy Development
• Green Industrialization
• Critical Minerals Value Chains
• Multilateral Development Banks Collaboration
• Development Finance Institutions Collaboration
• Sovereign Wealth Funds Engagement
• Investment Facility Design
• Industrial Development Frameworks
• Multi-Stakeholder Consultation
• Government Relations
• Private Equity
• Analytical Expertise
• Financing Mechanisms
• Currency Volatility Analysis
• Cost of Capital Analysis
• African Institutional Capital
• Southeast Asian Institutional Capital

Languages

English, Arabic, Chinese, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Russian