About the job

Agency Information: Become part of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation! DFC is America's development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest across sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and technology. DFC also provides financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs in order to create jobs in emerging markets. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.

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SUMMARY: As the Managing Director, Upstream Climate Pipeline Development, you will lead a team focused on developing thesis-driven climate finance investment opportunities for DFC. These efforts will entail identifying, evaluating, and driving new opportunities for complex international financing for climate-related projects in all sectors, including, but not limited to, clean energy, e-mobility, food and agriculture, nature-based solutions, and industrial decarbonization.

DUTIES: As the Managing Director, Upstream Pipeline Development (Climate), you will:

• Manage DFC’s climate-related upstream and pipeline development across all product lines. Establish and maintain business relationships with U.S. and foreign corporations, U.S. and foreign commercial banks and development finance institutions.
• Develop discrete, concrete, and actionable investment theses for various sectors in conjunction with OCCO, PCG, OCOO, members of their team, and relevant investment officers. Build a proactive outbound business development strategy around those theses.
• Bring enthusiasm, deep sector expertise and experience, and longstanding strong relationships in key DFC markets to bear on standing up and developing the upstream pipeline development function.
• Integrate business development plans and portfolio development objectives with overall department and agency goals and assist them in identifying projects that meets those objectives.
• Cooperate and collaborate with managers of business development programs and other initiatives to help assure their successful operation and implementation.
• Advise other DFC staff on pipeline opportunities and approaches in the climate sector; provide expertise on DFC’s climate finance investments and overall strategy.
• Identify and drive origination with key potential clients or client groups, associations, industry sectors, regions, and/or target markets in line with Agency-wide priorities
• Counsel private U.S. and foreign firms on the development of proposed projects. Discuss, in depth, DFC programs and other products as applicable with representatives of U.S. and foreign firms who have technical questions concerning programs. Discuss with companies the development of investment opportunities. Provide information and training on DFC financing programs to U.S. businesses, foreign government officials, and U.S. locally hired personnel of the U.S. Embassy and USAID missions abroad.

The ideal candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Mastery of international business development and marketing methods, in particular for development finance institutions, along with principles and practices as they relate to DFC products in developing countries to determine program suitability.
• Successful track record in managing a team.
• Deep sector expertise and experience in one of DFC’s core climate sectors (e.g., clean energy, e-mobility, agriculture, built environment, industrial decarbonization, or nature-based solutions).
• Mastery of climate finance, with a deep understanding of global capital gaps, opportunities for capital mobilization, and robust networks to key players in the climate space.
• Working knowledge of DFC’s programs, policies, goals, regulations, and interests; knowledge of relationships between DFC and other government and private sector investment programs, and the ability to apply this knowledge resourcefully to solve unprecedented problems and to adapt the development investment services programs to changing U.S. Government objectives/policies.
• Knowledge of U.S. foreign policy and development initiatives.
• Experience working with or in markets below upper middle-income status.

Conditions of Employment:

• The position is in the excepted service.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. is required
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitability for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation
• The incumbent will be required to file an Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278)
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance
• This position may require foreign travel to developing countries
• Selection may require completion of a one-year supervisory or managerial probationary period unless met during prior Federal service

Qualifications:

Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements at the time of submitting your application.

Specialized Experience: You may qualify if you have one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-15 level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is defined as experience in all of the following:

• Experience with international business development and marketing methods, for development finance institutions.
• Experience in one of the core climates sectors (e.g., clean energy, e-mobility, agriculture, built environment, industrial decarbonization, or nature-based solutions).
• Experience with managing finance, with an understanding of global capital gaps, opportunities for capital mobilization, and robust networks to key players in the climate space.

Specialized experience is experience advising on legal and policy matters impacting federal agencies, including statutory and case law, executive orders, rules, regulations, and policies in various areas of administrative law. Experience working in international relations, international development, private sector finance or investments, and/or experience living or working in emerging markets are strong advantages.

Additional Information:

• The incumbent will be expected to report to DFC Headquarters, Washington, D.C., and follow the agency's telework policy.
• This is not a Bargaining unit position.
• Telework Suitability: The duty of this position is suitable for telework. The selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval and if they meet the eligibility criterion in the 2010 Telework Act.
• Work Schedule: This position allows for a flexible work schedule.
• Miscellaneous: DFC uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify.This vacancy announcement may be used to fill similar positions within 90 days.
• This is an open continuous announcement and applicants will be extracted as vacancies occur. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional similar vacancies at DFC.
• To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 onRequiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to E.O. 14043, that requirement does not currently apply. Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine.
• Recruitment and relocation incentives may be authorized for this position.
• This announcement may be used to fill similar positions if additional vacancies occur.
• The incumbent will earn 8 hours of annual leave per pay period (80 hours) and 4 hours of sick leave per pay period (80 hours).

How You Will Be Evaluated:

1. Minimum Requirements: Your application must show that you meet all requirements, including the education and/or experience required for this position. You will be found "not qualified" if you do not possess the minimum competencies required for the position. If your application is incomplete, we will rate you as ineligible.

2. Referral: Since this is an Excepted Service position, a non-rated method of evaluation will be used. We will evaluate your application by comparing your description of your work experience, level of responsibility, and accomplishments with the requirements of the position to determine whether you meet all the qualification requirements. Although competitive examining rules for rating and ranking and veterans' preference do not apply, veteran's preference will be considered as a positive factor. Candidates who meet all the qualification and other eligibility requirements will be referred to the selecting official for consideration and possible interview.

Required Documents:

1. Your resume showing work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment and duties performed.

Do not submit photographs with your application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc. If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content (e.g. SSN or DOB), your resume will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations and you will not be considered for this vacancy.