Avis de recrutement d’un consultant en gestion de portefeuille pour le Forum d’investissement africain, Côte d’Ivoire
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 B.P. 1387, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Africa Investment Forum – PAIF
E-mail : o.nicol@afdb.org
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR A PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT FOR THE AFRICA INVESTMENT FORUM
- The African Development Bank (AfDB) hereby invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in the following Assignment: Portfolio Management Consultant for the Africa Investment Forum ;
- Established by the AfDB and seven founding partners in 2018, the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) is Africa’s investment market place – a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary platform dedicated to advancing projects to bankable stages, raising capital, and accelerating the financial closure of deals. The Africa Investment Forum convenes investors interested in Africa, African investors, enterprises with concrete investment needs, and selected government leaders to work out ways to boost private sector investments in Africa. The AIF aims to reduce intermediation costs, improve the quality of project information and documentation, and increase active and productive engagements between African governments and the private sector as well as between investors and project sponsors. The AIF offers investors access to a structured platform offering bankable, de-risked projects within an enabling environment ;
- The services to be provided under the assignment include maintaining a credible portfolio of AIF Pipeline, Origination and Boardroom deals and report with detailed indicators and their related threshold for all the deal segments. The assignment entails backstopping AIF Investment Officers in managing the deal tracker, generating analytical portfolio and deal reports, and supporting periodic reviews of the AIF portfolio. The consultant will collaborate with the AIF Investment officers, AIF partners, project sponsors, and Bank Sector and Regional complexes to support the advancement of deals from origination to financial close. The consultant will report to the Senior Director, Africa Investment Forum ;
- The Africa Investment Forum invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested consultants shall provide information on their qualifications, experience demonstrating their ability to provide the services, as well as a proposed work program with timeline, their understanding of the assignment and the proposed way to approach the assignment (documentation, references for similar services, experience in comparable assignments, etc.) ;
- The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the African Development Bank’s “Rules and Procedure for the Use of Consultants” May 2008 Edition revised October 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website. Please, note that interest expressed by a consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include it in the shortlist ;
- The work assignment, under this term of reference, will involve full-time consultancy services for a period of six (6) months and may be extended based on the performance of the retained Consultant, availability of budgetary resources and as may be determined by the Bank. The successful Consultant will be expected to commence on July 2022 upon completion of the selection process and upon signature of the contract. The position will be based in Abidjan ;
- Interested Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the email addresses below during the Bank’s working hours: 0800hrs to 1700hrs ;
- Expressions of interest with an updated Curriculum vitae (CV) must be received at the email addresses below no later than 15th June 2022 at 17h00 Abidjan Time and specifically mentioning : Portfolio Management Consultant for the Africa Investment Forum.
For the attention of :
Mrs. Onike Nicol-Houra
Africa Investment Forum
African Development Bank, 6 Avenue Joseph Anoma
01 BP 1387 Abidjan – COTE D’IVOIRE
E-mail : nicol@afdb.org ; diarrassouba@afdb.org
- Establishment of the Shortlist: A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established once the expressions of interest and updated CVs are received. The consultants on the shortlist will be invited to submit a proposal and comment on the Terms of Reference (attached as an annex). The proposals shall be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria1 :
| a. General qualifications and adequacy for the assignment to be undertaken | 25% | |
| b. Similar experience in the area of expertise of the assignment and | 40% | |
| c. Response to the Terms of Reference | 20% | |
| d. | Experience with the Bank and/or multilateral institutions | 10% |
| e. | Language Proficiency | 5% |