REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Energy Financial Solutions, Policy and Regulation Department

Expressions of interest are being requested for an Individual Local Currency Financing Consultant Position based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

The Power, Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth Sector Complex (PEVP) of the African Development Bank (the “AfDB” or the “Bank”) has the purpose to fulfil the objectives of “Light Up and Power Africa”. This includes the objective of achieving universal access to energy by 2025 across Africa. PEVP oversees strategy and policy development in the energy systems space; builds alignment across stakeholders and represents the Bank with external stakeholders; originates projects, develops new, innovative financing instruments; and ensures delivery of the “Light Up and Power Africa” agenda.

Within PEVP, the Energy Financial Solutions, Policy and Regulation Department (PESR) has among its objectives to support the Bank’s Regional Member Countries in developing and modernizing their energy and power infrastructure. The PESR team both (i) works with private sector sponsors to develop and finance power projects that provide African communities with access to clean and sustainable sources of energy and (ii) coordinates technical assistance, capacity building, and other types of programmes/initiatives that encourage the development of an enabling environment for private sector investment in Africa’s energy and power infrastructure.

The PESR Department is seeking to recruit an individual consultant with a solid private sector development, economic and/or energy sector background to support the delivery of the PESR 2019 Work Plan.

The African Development Bank invites eligible consultants to indicate their Interest in providing the following services: (i) development of a range of initiatives aimed at catalyzing private sector investment in energy and power infrastructure projects in Africa; (ii) contribute to the development of innovative instruments that crowd in local capital to African energy and power projects; (iii) assist in the identification of financing instruments to scale-up the development of the off-grid sector in Sub-Saharan Africa; (iv) assist in the origination and processing of new sovereign and non-sovereign projects eligible for Bank financing; (v) assist in the development of technical assistance and capacity building packages to African governments and regulatory institutions; and (vi) undertake any other PEVP tasks that the PESR management may assign.

Interested Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating their ability to undertake this assignment (documents, reference to similar services, CVs, experience in similar assignments, etc.).

The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Rules and Procedures for the Selection of Individual

Consultants. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist. The Bank reserves the right to cancel or post-pone this REOI process.

The duration of services is twelve months and the starting date is February 1, 2019.

For the EOI to be considered, the consultant needs to be registered in the AfDB DACON Consultant Database. New registration can be obtained at https://www.afdb.org/en/projects-and-operations/procurement/consultancy-services-e-consultant/ on a PC only through Internet Explorer.

Department issuing the request: PESR

Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience :

• Citizenship of a member country of the AfDB (regional or non-regional).
• A minimum of a Master’s degree or equivalent in Economics, International Development, Business Administration, Finance, Energy or any other relevant discipline.
• At least five years and a maximum of seven years of work experience with a relevant, multi-disciplinary background.
• Prior experience working in African or emerging markets
• Demonstrated experience on development, economic and finance issues, especially as it relates to the energy/power sector and/or crowding in private sector investment into infrastructure projects
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative research and analysis skills, especially on economic, energy, and financial topics/issues
• Proven ability to write comprehensive reports, proposals and other relevant documentation under time pressure
• Knowledge and understanding of AfDB administrative and operational procedures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and good knowledge in French.
• Demonstrated strong technical and analytical skills; dynamism; results-orientation; and problem-solving capability.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft operating systems (PowerPoint, Word, Excel) and Stata.

Place of assignment: Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

Duration of the assignment: Twelve (12) months. An extension could be considered, subject to performance and availability of funds.

Date of commencement: 1 February 2019

Deadline for applications : 9 January 2019 at 5 pm local time (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)

A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end of the request of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria on the basis of their profiles.

Applications to be submitted to :

Rhoda Mshana, E-mail : r.mshana@afdb.org

With copy to: Allioucha Niango E-mail : y.niango@afdb.org

Any questions and requests for clarifications may be sent to :

Rhoda Mshana, E-mail : r.mshana@afdb.org

With copy to: Allioucha Niango E-mail : y.niango@afdb.org

Please attach an updated Curriculum Vitae on the basis of the template below :

MODEL CURRICULUM VITAE CV