高级技术顾问，开发银行合作
Technical Advisor Sr, Development Bank Partnerships
注意：这是一个远程职位；CRS只考虑在我们设有现有办公室的国家的候选人。
职位概述
高级技术顾问（STA）- 发展银行合作负责多边开发银行（MDB）参与和开发金融合作伙伴关系的技术领导工作，包括但不限于CAF、世界银行、GEF、BCIE和美洲开发银行。STA负责与MDB和其他开发金融伙伴识别、设计和推进融资机会，以支持CRS的项目工作，同时优先考虑中美洲地区的实施，特别是萨尔瓦多、危地马拉、洪都拉斯和尼加拉瓜。与区域和国家项目团队、CRS全球创新金融团队以及外部融资机构密切合作，STA增强组织获取和利用开发金融资源的能力，开发并分享合作伙伴关系方法和技术指导，并为CRS更广泛的创新金融议程做出贡献。
角色与主要职责
- 领导CRS与MDB和其他开发金融机构的战略、参与、关系管理和资源动员工作，优先考虑支持中美洲项目的机会，同时提供可为CRS项目更广泛地提供信息的知识和合作伙伴关系方法。
- 作为CRS在MDB融资结构和合作模式方面的技术负责人，包括主权和非主权贷款、共同融资安排、气候融资、混合融资和其他开发金融机制。开发并分享指导文件、工具和经验教训，以加强组织在这些领域的能力建设。
- 领导与MDB和其他融资合作伙伴识别、设计、构建和推进开发金融机会，与区域和国家团队以及全球利益相关者在整个机会生命周期中密切合作。
- 与区域和国家团队合作，确保开发金融机会与CRS技术重点、项目战略和组织目标一致，同时促进跨区域学习和知识交流。
- 在开发金融和MDB资助的倡议相关的方案开发和项目设计、合作伙伴关系发展方面提供技术领导，以确保项目符合CRS标准、捐助方要求和行业最新动态。
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NOTE: This is a remote position; CRS will only consider candidates who are based in countries where we have existing offices.
Job Summary
The Senior Technical Advisor (STA), Development Bank Partnerships serves as technical leader on Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) engagement and development-finance partnerships including but not limited to CAF, the World Bank, GEF, BCIE, and Inter-American Development Bank. The STA leads the identification, design, and advancement of financing opportunities with MDBs and other development-finance partners to support CRS programming, while prioritizing implementation across Central America particularly in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Working closely with regional and country program teams, CRS's global innovative finance team, and external financing institutions, the STA strengthens organizational capacity to access and leverage development-finance resources, develops and shares partnership approaches and technical guidance, and contributes to CRS's broader innovative finance agenda.
Roles and Key Responsibilities
- Lead CRS’s strategy, engagement, relationship management, and resource mobilization efforts with MDBs and other development-finance institutions, prioritizing opportunities that support programming in Central America while contributing knowledge and partnership approaches that can inform CRS programming more broadly.
- Serve as CRS technical lead on MDB financing structures and partnership models, including sovereign and non-sovereign loans, co-financing arrangements, climate finance, blended finance, and other development-finance mechanisms. Develop and share guidance, tools, and lessons learned to strengthen organizational capacity in these areas
- Lead the identification, design, structuring, and advancement of development-finance opportunities with MDBs and other financing partners, working closely with regional and country teams as well as global stakeholders throughout the opportunity lifecycle.
- Collaborate with regional and country team to align development-finance opportunities with CRS technical priorities, program strategies, and organizational objectives, while promoting cross-regional learning and knowledge exchange,
- Provide technical leadership in proposal development and project design, and partnership development related to development finance and MDB-funded initiatives, to ensure programming consistency with CRS standards, donor requirements, and emerging industry practices
- Represent CRS at MDB forums, engaging with high-level donor and government stakeholders to influence future funding mechanisms.
- Support organizational readiness for development-finance engagement by strengthening staff capacity, disseminating practices, and helping establish approaches that increase CRS’s ability to access and manage complex financing opportunities.
- Contribute to CRS's knowledge management and learning agenda for development finance by documenting successful partnership models, financing structures, lessons learned, and market trends, and sharing insights across CRS regions and teams.
- Monitor advancements and opportunities on climate finance, and multilateral lending, CRS leadership, regional teams, and country programs on emerging opportunities, risks, mitigation, and strategic considerations.
- Maintain a matrix of the strategic priorities and plans of the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), and CAF to identify opportunities for CRS programming and co-financing in priority areas.
- Represent CRS at global and regional development-finance, climate-finance, and MDB forums, strengthening CRS’s visibility, partnerships, and influence in the development-finance community.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Extensive knowledge of finance structures and mechanisms used in development programming particularly in climate finance
- Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
- Excellent strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including research publications.
- Excellent presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
- Proactive, resourceful and results oriented.
Required Languages: Fluency in written and spoken English and Spanish required.
Travel: Must be willing and able to travel up to 35%Supervisory Responsibilities: None
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