Key responsibilities

• Lead pipeline development and portfolio construction, including promoting competitions and sourcing high-potential enterprises.
• Analyze applications, conduct due diligence, develop financial models, and prepare investment memos for presentation to internal and external investment committees.
• Support investees throughout the implementation process to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and adherence to AECF’s grant implementation principles.
• Maintain strong professional relationships with investees (and service providers) to ensure value for money and mitigate risks.
• Conduct regular monitoring of grant implementation, including tracking milestones, compliance, timelines, and deliverables, through analysis of periodic reports and provision of feedback and site visits.
• Review and analyze fund disbursement requests promptly and make informed recommendations.
• Prepare regular reports on investee performance, highlighting deviations or delays, and propose corrective action in consultation with colleagues and investees.
• Coordinate technical assistance support for investees in collaboration with internal teams and external service providers.
• Ensure appropriate legal review and opinion for all investments requiring the legal department’s advice.
• Contribute to the preparation of donor reports, management reports, and proposal development for new programme areas.
• Actively support the portfolio learning agenda in collaboration with the Impact, Knowledge, and Insights teams to capture lessons, enhance AECF’s reputation, and drive systemic change across market systems.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and risk management of the portfolio in accordance with the wider AECF Management Framework.
• Implement the programme-level risk and mitigation framework, in line with the overall AECF Risk and Compliance Management
  Framework.

Suitable candidates should:

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, economics, development finance, or a related field.
• Have a professional qualification such as CFA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent.
• Possess at least 7 years of experience in development finance, investment management, venture building, impact investing, or related experience.
• Have experience managing blended finance, results-based schemes, or challenge funds.
• Have proven track record in structuring and managing investments in SME’s, renewable energy, or climate-related sectors with strong financial analysis and modelling skills, experience in due diligence processes (financial and operational), and portfolio management (monitoring, reporting, and risk management).
• Have hands-on experience working with early-stage enterprises, an understanding of the work and challenges of renewable energy companies, and agricultural value chains in Ethiopia.
• Possess strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills working with investees, government stakeholders, and other stakeholders.