Associate Director, Head of Reforms, Sustainable Infrastructure; SIG

Overview

Associate Director, Head of Sector Reforms, Sustainable Infrastructure (SIG)  Associate Director (AD), Sector Reforms (SIG), is a member of the management team of Competitiveness & Governance (C&G) in the PSD department, reporting to the Director and leading a team of policy / sector experts working on specific projects and policy initiatives in the Sustainable Infrastructure (SIG) sectors. The AD manages a team of approximately 7-10 sector / policy specialists and supports the Director in overseeing and leading policy dialogue activities on sector/country specific issues;

works with banking OLs in the origination and structuring of SIG projects with policy components; works with economists in the Impact / Partnership departments and other policy specialist teams in VP3 and the Legal Transition Team (LTT).

In particular, the AD will lead the Sector Reforms team to develop policy initiatives for the energy / infrastructure sectors, structure transactions with policy components at the national, municipal, sector and corporate levels, including managing significant delivery frameworks such as the SOE Management Assistance, Reform & Transformation programme (SMART). They will also lead significant policy / advisory services that can enable investments and will participate in high level conferences, media appearances, and meetings with ministries, regulators, the private sector, international financial institutions (IFIs), clients and other stakeholders.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Design, manage and lead policy dialogues with relevant stakeholders to promote energy and infrastructure sector reforms, and improving the general investment climate / competitiveness of CoOs, with a view to developing long-term relationships and becoming a trusted adviser – including on topics such as SOE reforms (national and municipal levels), sector reforms such as unbundling, market design, tariff reforms, regional connectivity / integration, setting up and providing capacity building for regulators etc;
  
  and corporate level governance reforms;
• Lead on the production of relevant sector reform roadmaps advancing the economic governance agenda, building consensus within the Bank and working closely with sector banking and the relevant ROs; establish priorities for EBRD’s contribution to energy and infrastructure sector development in specific countries;
• Contributes to country and relevant sector strategies discussed by the EBRD’s Board of Directors and serves as the focal point for SIG sectors’ policy initiatives in country and relevant sector strategies;
• Reform advocacy - establish buy-in from key external stakeholders (e.g. government authorities, regulators, IFIs and other market participants) on the importance of developing more competitive, resilient, well-governed and integrated energy and infrastructure sectors;
• Ensure smooth coordination with policy teams in VP3, legal transition, and banking departments to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of delivery; work closely with Impact to enhance the transition impact / ambition of projects and ensure timely and quality reporting of policy results; and with Donor Partnership to mobilize donor funding.

Transaction design and support:

• Proactively work with the Sustainable Infrastructure Group (SIG) towards transactional opportunities, including ensuring that relevant transactions are aligned and identify reform opportunities with all public sector transactions;
• Design, develop and manage prioritisation and delivery of policy initiatives; coordinate with Climate Strategy and Delivery (CSD) on energy, water, and municipal sector reforms / transaction support, including Green Cities framework;
• Lead the design, development and management of flagship TC / policy frameworks such as the SMART (SOE Management Assistance for Reform and Transformation);
• Oversee the [selection and performance of external consultants, and portfolio of TCs managed by the Sector Reforms team to ensure quality execution, prioritisation of resources, and enhance effectiveness and efficiency of delivery.

Leadership and management, communications

• Lead organisation of conferences, workshops and…