This position is part of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Office of Infrastructure (OI). As a Project Finance Specialist (Director), you will manage complex, sensitive, and precedent-setting housing and real estate finance projects. You will carry out the full range of new project financings and undertake all tasks required to process transactions from initial screening to due diligence, negotiating & structuring, approval, documentation, closing & funding.
Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You may qualify at the GS-14 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following: 1) Experience independently or leading a team in originating international project finance debt transactions in developing countries while working at a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, multilateral organization, or other comparable governmental entity; 2) Experience conducting all of the following: due diligence, financial analysis, economic analysis, detailed credit analysis, credit risk assessment and mitigation, market analysis, legal agreement structuring, legal agreement negotiations, and political risk analysis of limited recourse finance transactions; 3) Experience creating, analyzing and running sensitivities on complex financial models for projections of financial projects with work product considered final; 4) Experience communicating results of research and analysis of work product considered final; AND 5) Experience in project finance with experience gained in the following areas: corporate finance, accounting, credit analysis, international investments and commercial/investment banking. Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement 25-OI-DE-12661344-BN using Delegated Examining (DE) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet DE requirements and can apply to that announcement. NOTE: You must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered under both. This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur.
As a Project Finance Specialist (Director), you will: Handle a range of activities relevant to the housing finance and real estate debt origination process, including reviewing business plans, off-take agreements and other contracts of finance and construction projects such as EPC contracts and sales/leasing and management agreements, market studies, financial model projections, and financial model sensitivities. Analyze the nature of the investment, and the guaranty, equity and debt instruments involved in projects overseas. Summarize clearly and concisely, due diligence findings as part of credit packages and other documents and memoranda required in the Agency's approval process, and present loan credit proposals to committees to obtain approvals. Negotiate terms and conditions in contracts and structured debt finance agreements to achieve execution of commitment letters, financing agreements and disbursements. Conduct research and analysis on relevant industries, sectors, markets, countries and key participants. Develop prospective client relationships and maintain a robust project pipeline to achieve annual targets for investment and development impact as set for the Office of Infrastructure. Serve as point of contact for day-to-day advancement of transactions, including scheduling and attending calls; project management and planning; coordinating among the client, internal parties, external advisors and financing partners; and generally managing the multifaceted workstreams required to advance transactions to commitment, financial close and disbursement. Oversee ancillary workstreams related to transactions including liaising with client, intradepartmental tasks and external consultants. Work with clients to complete DFC forms, liaising with DFC's environmental and social team, reviewing know-your-customer diligence results, and similar routine tasks that must be completed on all transactions. Monitor international events to determine risk or impact on transactions and borrower's goals, objectives, and ability to perform under finance and contract agreements. Review, summarize, and determine impacts of international, national, regional and local government regulations on complex property sector and housing finance projects located in developing markets. Please Note: This is a Bargaining unit position represented by AFGE, local 1534.