Overview
The Technical Specialist will serve as a core technical resource to SEforALL’s Green Industrialisation Hub and the Council for Critical Mineral Development in the Global South, leading the assessment of financing bottlenecks, policy and structuring reforms to mobilize investment and the design of a scalable investment framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide a strategic synthesis of global/regional trends shaping critical minerals and green industrialisation.
- Build upon existing demand/supply analyses and energy transition plans to quantify investment requirements and financing gaps across selected African and Southeast Asian value chains.
- Map and survey relevant stakeholders, including investors, financiers, DFIs, sovereign wealth funds, and industry players across the value chain (from minerals to manufacturing), to analyze investment barriers such as cost of capital, currency risks, and infrastructure constraints.
- Re-assess drivers of investment risk (distinguishing between real and perceived risks) and identify the conditions required to mobilize domestic capital into commercially viable projects.
- Evaluate existing financing platforms, blended-finance instruments, and industrial financing mechanisms to identify opportunities for alignment.
- Review international experiences and transferable financing models to inform pathways for domestic industrial development and value capture in the African context.
- Assess the feasibility of a dedicated financing mechanism (e.g., a Minerals and Green Industrialisation Facility).
- Evaluate capitalization approaches, including sovereign wealth funds, commodity-revenue platforms, and guarantees.
- Propose design options, including mandate, governance, and investment criteria, and develop an implementation roadmap with partnership models for scaling domestic investment.
- Conduct mapping and engage with key stakeholders, including government entities, private sector actors, and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).
- Organizing high-level consultation to validate proposed financing mechanisms and ensure institutional alignment.
Required Experience
Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in investment banking, mining value chain project finance, development finance, or energy or economic policy development. Demonstrated expertise in green industrialization and critical minerals value chains. Experience collaborating with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), and Sovereign Wealth Funds to design and structure investment facilities or industrial development frameworks. Desired Experience in conducting high-level stakeholder consultations with government officials, private equity investors, and multilateral partners. Advanced analytical expertise with a proven ability to translate complex investment constraints (e.g., currency volatility, high cost of capital) into actionable, bankable financing mechanisms. Experience in the African and/or Southeast Asian institutional capital and/or minerals development landscape.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Development, Law, International Relations, Engineering or a related field. A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s) in the above fields combined with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.
