Located in the Office of Energy, you will manage complex, sensitive, and precedent-setting finance projects. You will carry out the full range of new project financings and undertake all tasks required to process transactions from initial screening to due diligence, negotiating & structuring, approval, documentation, closing & funding.

Duties

As a Project Finance Specialist (Associate/Associate Director), you will: Handle a range of activities in the structured debt finance origination process, including reviewing business plans, off-take agreements and other contracts of a project including Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) and Operation & Maintenance (O&M), market studies, financial model projections, and financial model sensitivities for structured debt finance applications. Analyze the nature of the investment, equity and debt instruments involved in projects overseas. Summarizes clearly and concisely due diligence finding as part of credit packages and other documents and memoranda required in the Agency's approval process and presents loan credit proposals to committees to obtain approvals. Negotiate terms and conditions in contracts and structured debt finance agreements to achieve execution of commitment letters, financing agreements and disbursements. Conduct research and analysis on relevant industry, sector, market, country and key participants. Conduct outreach to expand the prospective structured debt finance pipeline. Serve as point of contact for day-to-day advancement of transactions, including scheduling and attending calls; project management and planning; coordinating among the client, internal parties, external advisors and financing partners; and generally managing the multifaceted workstreams required to advance transactions to commitment., financial close and disbursement. Oversee ancillary workstreams related to transactions including liaising with client, intradepartmental tasks and external consultants. Work with clients to complete DFC forms, liaising with DFC's environmental and social team, reviewing know-your-customer diligence results, and similar routine tasks that must be completed on all transactions. Please Note: This is a Bargaining unit position represented by AFGE, local 1534.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Must submit resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• Suitability for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Within 30 days of your start date, you will be required to file a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450)
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance
• This position will require foreign travel to developing countries

Qualifications

Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You may qualify at the GS-12 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following: 1) Experience working with a team on international projects or investments while working at a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, multilateral organization, or other comparable governmental entity; 2) Experience reviewing financial statements for businesses located in developing countries; 3) Experience building financial models to determine ability of a company to repay its debt and sensitivity analyses to test those assumptions; 4) Experience conducting analyses in THREE of the following four areas: financial analysis of international ventures, calculating credit risk exposure of international ventures, detailed credit analysis of international ventures, or market analysis of business ventures in developing countries; and 5) Experience identifying international financial or investment policy issues to identify TWO of the following three areas: political, economic or credit risks of projects located outside the United States. Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. You may qualify at the GS-13 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following:1) Conducting and reviewing project finance loan origination, including FIVE of the following: financial analysis legal structuring financial or political risk analysis detailed credit analysis presentation of loan packages to credit approval committees as part of a team loan negotiations of limited recourse project finance transactions in developing countries; 2) Experience creating, analyzing, auditing, and running sensitivities on financial models for debt finance in the project finance manner for projects located in developing markets; 3) Working on international investments or international financial transactions in a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, multilateral organization, or other comparable governmental entity; and 4) Experience in the financial services industry with experience gained in at least THREE of the following areas: project finance corporate finance accounting credit analysis international investments commercial/investment banking Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement 25-OE-DE-12564946-BN using Delegated Examining (DE) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet DE requirements and can apply to that announcement. NOTE: You must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered under both. This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address International Development Finance Corporation 1100 New York Ave. NW Washington, DC 20527 US
• Name: Brandon Nicknadavich
• Email: [email protected]