
Investment Director
Corporate Staffing Services
Nairobi | Full Time | Finance
Closing in 2 months ago
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The Role:
An opportunity has arisen for an Investment Director to join a dynamic newly created niche team working in the African Energy Transition landscape at AIIM. You will play a key leadership role in the team, focusing on origination, execution and asset management of investments.
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Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the Fund Head to build a scalable strategy to provide catalytic development capital across Africa
- Lead deals: originate, evaluate, structure, negotiate, execute and manage investments in early-stage development platform or scale up growth companies in the renewables, biofuels, hydrogen or electric vehicles space
- Work in accordance with the AIIM policies, procedures and relevant good practice
- Build and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders, internal and external
- Operate as an industry leader in the climate space
- Build, lead and nurture an investment team in Nairobi
- Develop innovative and appropriate financial structures for complex transactions
- Provide risk analysis and review of financial statements and valuations
- Have oversight of bid documents and presentations
- Have oversight of the asset companies with regard to the setting of strategy, ESG considerations, project implementation and contractual compliance, and serve on Boards
- Identify technical risk areas across and within assets and develop optimised solutions
- Leverage cross-industry knowledge into projects to increase shareholder value
- Be a leader in the AIIM transaction process, including due diligence on potential acquisitions, motivation of investment recommendations and participation in investment committee meetings
- Ensure deal outcomes are in line with AIIM governance guiding principles through active participation and responsibility in decision making through deal execution processes
- Profile the AIIM business through representing AIIM funds in negotiations with counterparties on affairs pertaining to shareholder matters such as SHA provisions, SPV resourcing etc
- Be an active and value-adding member of the team
- Assuming major changes in policy or consumer behaviour
Required Skills and Experience:
- Relevant Tertiary Qualification
- 15+ years relevant experience in investments, ideally both:
- financial investing experience, with leading investment firms or investing institutions, and
- experience in the climate industry working in leadership roles in commercial development companies, preferably private equity-backed companies
- Demonstrable passion for early-stage business development in the climate space
- Substantial pan-Africa exposure and deep sustainability, energy efficiency, renewables or similar sector experience
- Substantial infrastructure sector exposure and/or experience in general growth capital for African businesses
- Strong knowledge and understanding of industry trends, key drivers of value creation, and financial, operational, strategic, and commercial variables
- Specific financial acumen with the capacity to demonstrate knowledge of and insight into financial principles and processes, and identify inconsistencies in data
- Ability to apply sound business judgment and an analytical, pragmatic and creative approach to problem solving
- Demonstrable execution/outcome/delivery skills
- Proven ability to prioritise between detailed day to day activity, including problem-solving, and longer-term activities and projects
- Proven ability to sustain high level of performance under pressure with tight deadlines
- Superior interpersonal and relationship building skills to build strong relationships with external and internal stakeholders across all levels
- Effective communication skills including strong written and verbal communication competency
- Good understanding of credit, legal and compliance issues as they apply across Africa
- French language skills would be a bonus
AIIM Culture Fit
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Self-starter
- Intellectually curious
- Collaborative
- High energy
- Performance obsession
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