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About the Job
Nexant is currently seeking an experienced energy sector professional for its Washington, DC office, to fill a Principal Project Finance Advisor position. The successful candidate will join Nexant´s Africa Infrastructure Program (AIP) team, within Nexant's Consulting - Government Division. Responsibilities focus on performing energy consulting services at policy and project levels for governments and local project developers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
AIP is a USAID funded technical assistance program aiming to help late stage power infrastructure projects in SSA reach financial closure by making available financial, legal, technical and environmental experts to governments and governmental agencies. The Nexant project team assists as Capacity Building and Transaction Advisor to help resolve regulatory roadblocks in the enabling environment, structure the project, and negotiate core agreements such as Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), Wheeling Agreements, and other relevant agreements, moving the project along through financial closure.
The incumbent will be assisted in his/her logistics and administrative tasks by the Project Support Team and will report to the AIP Project Management.
Duties and Responsibilities
· Help organize and lead multidisciplinary teams to appraise the viability of proposed energy projects along technical, commercial, financial, economic, environmental, regulatory, legal, and other relevant criteria and identify associated risks;
· Help structure mitigating measures against such risks and negotiate commercial agreements that appropriately allocate such risks to the parties best equipped to carry them in line with established practices that would render the project bankable;
· Assist government policy makers identify private sector and investor challenges faced in the conception and implementation of individual generation and transmission projects and develop/implement measures for policy makers to improve the enabling regulatory environment for capital flows to support project implementation; and
· Participate in multidisciplinary teams for sector wide planning to guide on sector restructuring, Offtaker credit enhancement, tariff methodology, etc. matters bearing financial expertise on the key consideration involved.
Qualifications
· Master's in Business Administration (enhanced by engineering degree is a plus);
· Extensive experience assisting investors identify, structure, evaluate, and invest in high yield, limited or non-recourse, development projects in the energy sector in Emerging Markets;
· Exposure to multiple Project Finance structured deals in lead negotiating capacity with intimate familiarity of PPAs, TCAs, Ancillary Agreements, O&M Agreements, Wheeling Agreements, Cross-border Interconnection Agreements, Shareholders Agreements, Loan Agreements, Security Arrangements, etc.;
· Insightful knowledge of Project Finance and financial engineering techniques needed to structure bankable deals;
· First hand familiarity with the financing criteria of multilateral development agencies, bilateral donor organization, export credit agencies, as well as commercial long term investors;
· Experience in setting up financial projections for complex projects with insightful knowledge of key parameters involved to correctly interpret and diagnose problem areas from financial projections;
· Experience dealing with regulatory and policy issues affecting energy projects in Emerging Market environments;
· Ability to deal with high ranking officials, policy makers, and corporate officials;
· Track record working effectively on project transactions in multi-cultural environments (Africa is a plus);
· Skills & experience in organization, leadership, dynamism, problem solving;
· USAID experience is a plus;
· Excellent writing ability is a must;
· Willingness to travel at least 30% of the time.
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