Senior Operations Officer – FIAS Program Representative

at  IFC Systems Corporation

DESCRIPTION

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
IFC’s Economics & Private Sector Development Vice Presidency ensures a consistent focus on development results and impact across IFC’s operations. Our team provides independent economic analysis to all of IFC’s operations and leads blended finance programming and partnership development. The Vice Presidency supports the implementation of IFC’s business strategy for effective delivery of our programs to clients and partners, in close collaboration with relevant counterparts across the World Bank Group.
The Partnerships and Fundraising (CBFPF) unit within IFC’s Economics & Private Sector Development Vice Presidency supports IFC operations by fundraising for IFC priority areas and maintaining ongoing relationships with development partners, including bilateral and multilateral sovereign partners, foundations, and private philanthropies. In addition to directly engaging with partners to support IFC activities, CBFPF facilitates partnership development across IFC and advises all IFC operational units on establishing and maintaining meaningful partnerships that help further IFC’s strategic objectives.

The Senior Operations Officer will report to the Principal Operations Officer, Team Lead Western Sovereign Partners. He/she will be accountable for designing and delivering the new FY27-31 FIAS strategy and managing the day-to-day FIAS operations, including coordinating with development partners not only for the new strategy but also for the current strategy cycle that lasts until the end of FY26.

• Ensure rigorous monitoring of projects over a multi-year timeframe and periodic evaluation of the impact of FIAS-funded projects, including by systematically tracking key project-level indicators.
• Oversee and monitor all targets, including spending, results, and impact (in coordination with the M&E team), ensuring that all obligations under the Trust Fund agreements are met.
• Maintain strong systems of internal financial and operational controls and conduct effective financial and operational management and oversight to ensure compliance with IFC Trust Fund policies.
• Coordinate the budgets and donor reporting in collaboration with IFC’s Advisory Portfolio, Trust Funds, Partnerships, and Finance teams.
• Prepare periodic reports to IFC Management on the program’s operational and financial progress and achievements.
• Determine funding needs in coordination with IFC operations and the Advisory/Upstream Secretariat and participate in the implementation of an annual fundraising strategy, which will be led by IFC Partnerships & Fundraising.
• Work closely with IFC Partnerships & Fundraising, which manages development partner relations, to liaise with existing development partners and coordinate development partners and external events.