Technical Specialist, Critical Minerals and Investment

Designs an investment framework for critical-mineral processing, manufacturing and green industrialisation across Africa and Southeast Asia for Sustainable Energy for All. The specialist quantifies financing gaps, maps investors, benchmarks blended-finance models, develops a funding-facility roadmap and convenes governments, financial institutions and private investors to turn regional commitments into viable projects.

• Quantify investment needs and financing gaps across selected mineral-processing and manufacturing value chains
• Map investors, financiers, development institutions, sovereign wealth funds and industry actors
• Analyse investment barriers including capital costs, currency risks and infrastructure constraints
• Benchmark financing platforms, blended-finance instruments and transferable industrial-finance models
• Assess a dedicated minerals and green-industrialisation funding facility and propose its mandate, governance and investment criteria
• Develop an implementation roadmap and partnership models for mobilising domestic institutional capital
• Consult governments, private investors and development finance institutions to validate proposed financing mechanisms

• Master's degree in economics, finance, development, law, international relations, engineering or a related field, or a bachelor's degree in one of those fields with two additional years of qualifying experience
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in investment banking, mining value-chain project finance, development finance, or energy or economic policy
• Demonstrated expertise in green industrialisation and critical-minerals value chains
• Experience working with multilateral development banks, development finance institutions and sovereign wealth funds to structure investment facilities or industrial-development frameworks
• Fluent English

• Experience conducting high-level consultations with government officials, private-equity investors and multilateral partners
• Advanced analytical ability to convert investment constraints into bankable financing mechanisms
• Experience in African or Southeast Asian institutional capital or minerals-development landscapes

• Investment Analysis
• Energy Policy
• Governmental Affairs
• Manufacturing Strategy
• Critical Minerals
• Project Finance
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning
• Supply Chain Strategy
• Blended Finance
• Investment Facility Design

• Home-based part-time retainer hosted by Sustainable Energy for All and contracted through UNOPS
• Contract runs for 12 months with a maximum of 120 working days
• Mandatory pre-service courses take about four hours and are not compensated