E T Consultant - Senior Operations Officer

At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group (WBG) , you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. In fiscal year 2026, IFC committed a record $105.6 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries. For more information, visit www.ifc.org . The WBG has recently established its first-ever in-country Resident Representation for EQG in the city of Malabo. This Country Office (CO) is headed by a WBG Resident Representative (RR) who covers four of the five institutions of the WBG. The RR is the Head of Office (HOO) and responsible for leading the WBG relationship with the Government of EQG. The WBG in Malabo is looking to recruit a Senior Country Officer under an Extended Term Consultancy modality. This position will report to the WBG RR and aims to provide critical quasi-managerial office and program support to the Resident Representation and content-related support to WBG teams working on EQG. The role is of fundamental importance to help the HOO address the country’s development needs and global challenges with impact and at scale, through purposeful collaboration, coordination, and deployment of the WBG collective knowledge and services. Country Office

• Developing and maintaining a good understanding of the country’s key economic and political issues/ trends to be reported as relevant to the HOO.
• Being the primary point of contact for operationalizing the WBG program in the country, by liaising regularly with the Government of EQG’s office supporting WBG missions and with all other critical development partners, including the private sector, other donors, and the civil society organizations (CSOs).
• Building partnerships with key public and private stakeholders, including new/existing clients, other development partners and key ministries relevant to the WBG program in EQG.
• Supporting the WBG EQG CO’s Assistant to the Resident Representation (ARR) in the preparation of visiting missions/trips to the country, including the preparation of briefs, and the organization of meeting and logistics, as per direct engagement with the different internal and external clients of the WBG.
• Assisting the HOO with the overall strategy formulation for the WBG program with the country (Country Partnership Framework or CPF), ensuring to keep constant collaborative working relationships across all WBG institutions.
• Supporting the country and/or sector/industry teams in the update and/or preparation of the Analytical Services and Advisory (ASA) products from the World Bank and/or Upstream and Advisory (U A) products from IFC that involve sectoral/thematic Deep Dives.
• Reviewing and preparing various reports, including time sheets and weekly activities progress updates; organizing meetings and workshops for specific advisory or investment engagements, as requested by the HOO.
• Overseeing the preparation and/or direct supervision of all outgoing communication to clients to be signed by the HOO and taking the lead in assessing all incoming communication from clients to be responded by the HOO by proactively drafting such communications for HOO’s supervision.
• Demonstrating and/or quickly acquiring a thorough understanding of the country, providing market intelligence and analysis, and developing strong business networks;
• Maintaining an up-to-date and structured database of clients (internal and external) to the WBG, in direct coordination with the ARR, using the new Phoenix platform.
• Building strong relationships with government officials, portfolio clients, global and regional private businesses (in financial and real sectors), multilateral and bilateral partners, academia and civil society organizations to further develop technical assistance, financing and investment opportunities in economic sectors with high developmental impact.
• Provide in-country support, and subsequent follow-up to all WBG visiting missions, as needed, and ensuring Aide Memoires (AMs) are delivered promptly after missions have been completed.
• Assisting the HOO with the daily management of the EQG CO, directly liaising with the ARR for anchoring continuously impactful support to the country.
• Supporting the ARR in keeping constantly updated all critical distribution lists (both internal and external) to the WBG. Operations
• Supporting the day-to-day oversight and implementation of the WBG program in the country, in line with the CPF for the country and the evolving WBG corporate strategies.
• Assisting in the daily monitoring of the WBG portfolio in collaboration with teams from across all three relevant institutions for EQG (IBRD, IFC, and MIGA), providing the Country Office Management perspective on all projects, from design/inception through completion.
• Conducting periodical reviews to assess the quality of outputs before delivery, or during implementation phase, from all WBG products.
• Negotiating with internal or external clients on sensitive and delicate issues, as needed.
• Assisting the Country Office Management in the preparation for conferences, seminars, workshops, and corporate events.
• Proactively, and as needed, developing a strong pipeline of good quality financing and investment opportunities for the WBG through focusing on the approved CPF and its Annual Business Planning Exercise (ABPE), anticipating market trends and employing sector/country knowledge.
• Developing country and market knowledge to ensure that the WBG is working with critical development partners and sponsors that could help leverage development finance.
• Preparing relevant strategy papers, briefs, summaries, working papers, reports and promotional materials for internal and external users, in coordination with the WBG Communications Team for EQG.
• Fulfilling a series of critical roles for ramping up private sector financing for EQG, undertaking the following IFC-related tasks: - Collecting all relevant on-the-ground information with potential impact on IFC’s activities in the country and communicating them in due time to Region/Industry colleagues and the HOO. - Developing a strong understanding, and actively marketing and utilizing IFC’s Advisory Services. - Supporting investment, upstream, and advisory teams for all IFC projects in the country, including new business and portfolio projects. - Conducting market and industry research and associated analysis, including sector and industry players mapping to inform business development. - Reviewing company information, analyzing financials/projections, make financial models to support investment analysis for potential leads. - Taking accountability for client selection and supporting with the integrity due diligence of potential sponsors. - Developing and maintaining relationships with potential clients and identifying business opportunities, while considering IFC’s strategy, priorities and products.
• Performing other such duties as may be required from time to time to meet emerging, ad-hoc corporate requirements, and/or respond to internal or external requests. Other Responsibilities
• Being the main direct back-up of the HOO for all aspects of the WBG program and office with and in EQG, acting for the HOO at all times when the HOO is outside of the country.
• Serving as the team leader for any ad-hoc requests placed by the HOO and/or Management for teams working on EQG.
• Providing a complementary supervision to that of the HOO to the ARR, being the first daily point of contact to the ARR and directly participating in his/her annual performance and talent review.
• Delivering needed training and/or mentoring to the ARR and other staff in WBG program-related management tasks, applications and uses, as needed.