Senior Investment Officer

About the Role Senior Investment Officer to join either the RAN or the RSC Delivery Unit, focusing exclusively on the mining and metals sectors. The selected candidate will support the origination, structuring, execution, and management of metals and mining transactions, with regional responsibilities across RAN and RSC. What You'll Do

• Be responsible for the identification, selection, origination, execution, and closing of metals and mining equity, quasi-equity, and debt (loans and guarantees, as well as capital market) transactions.
• Lead the evaluation of both lending and non-lending metals and mining projects, including initial screening of project applications, evaluation of feasibility studies, and preparation of project concept notes, assessing project risks and advising on appropriate risk mitigation actions.
• Develop innovative and appropriate financial structures for complex metals and mining transactions. Assess and structure transactions to maximize the potential for commercial co-financing and catalyzing additional sources of capital.
• Review and analyze financial statements and build and/or adjust Excel financial models, including financial projection models, to evaluate financial information, project economics, commodity exposure, and market dynamics in the metals and mining sector and support management decision-making.
• Coordinate with a variety of complementary team members including the environmental, social, and governance safeguards, finance, development effectiveness, legal, and risk functions as it relates to project structuring and closing of metals and mining transactions.
• Execute the closing of metals and mining transactions and the disbursement process for approved lending and investment transactions and verify all contractual conditions prior to disbursement.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to more junior team members, helping strengthen institutional capacity. What We're Looking For
• Experience leading origination, evaluation, structuring, and closing of metals and mining equity, quasi-equity, and debt transactions, including loans, guarantees, and capital market instruments.
• Strong financial analysis and modelling skills; ability to build and adjust Excel models to assess project economics, commodity exposure, and market dynamics.
• Ability to develop innovative financial structures and structure transactions to maximize co-financing and catalyze additional sources of capital.
• Experience coordinating with ESG, finance, development effectiveness, legal, and risk teams across the lifecycle of project structuring and closing.
• Track record of working regionally across multiple countries, with capability to manage relationships and pipeline for RAN and RSC.
• Familiarity with IDB Invest products (loans, guarantees, debt capital markets, equity, quasi-equity) and disbursement procedures.