MNA Fellow

The World Bank Group Global Department for Farming and Agribusiness (FAB) supports a global vision of delivering a triple bottom line of a healthy economy, healthy people, and a healthy planet, supporting both public and private sector clients. It is also the department coordinating the implementation of the AgriConnect corporate initiative. By facilitating knowledge and technical support to operational teams, the FAB Department provides corporate and high-quality client services across the full range of IBRD and IDA countries, as well as IFC clients. FAB is seeking an MNA Fellow to work with the department’s senior staff and with IFC investment officers who are responsible for screening, designing, negotiating, structuring, and subsequently supervising IFC’s investment projects in agrifood systems. The MNA Fellow will help senior colleagues develop, refine and execute on engagement strategies for prospective and existing clients, and agribusiness subsectors and investment themes. Duties and Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial models, including financial projections.
• Analyze historical financial statements and prepare reports on the financial health and viability of a given company or project.
• Analyze financial projections and report on viability of businesses.
• Monitor operational and financial performance of client companies to evaluate risk and recommend proactive portfolio management actions and prepare regular portfolio reports.
• Conduct industry and market research to assist in IFC’s business development efforts.
• Prepare presentations and other documentation as contributions to the Bank Group’s (WBG) internal reporting and external communication, marketing and outreach.
• Build and maintain quality internal and external client relationships with a high level of responsiveness (including client coordination to ensure IFC receipt of needed information).
• Conduct mappings to assess business opportunities in agribusiness subsectors for the WBG.
• Identify data collection needs to support investment assessments including financial and market information as well as development impact and sectoral ESG challenges.
• Extract lessons of IFC’s earlier investments or advisory mandates and other evaluative work as relevant to provide input to the structuring of new transactions or monitoring of existing transactions.
• Help prepare for and, as needed, participate in meetings and negotiations.