Technical Advisor Sr, Development Bank Partnerships

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 required. Spanish language proficiency is highly preferred.

Travel: Must be willing and able to travel up to 35%

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in finance, economics, business administration or related field.
• Ten years of work experience with progressive responsibilities in international finance, development finance, or related fields.
• With five years overseas experience in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of MDB Programs and/or multi-sectoral project with development finance partnerships.
• Experience working in and directly with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to design loan packages and programs.
• Track record of complex stakeholder management and designing sovereign or development finance mechanisms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working in multi-cultural teams, with LACRO (Latin and Central America region) experience
• Experience working in relevant thematic sectors (agriculture, water, youth employment, climate adaptation including- land restoration and water governance and resilience)

Agency Competencies (for all CRS Staff)

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies

• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.

Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and