MNA Fellow

MNA Fellow

Job #:
req38862

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Agribusiness

Grade:
EC1

Term Duration:
Extended Term Consultant (ETC)

Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

Location:
Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):
English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:
11/4/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

FAB is seeking an MNA Fellow to work with the department's senior staff and with IFC investment officers who are responsible for screening, designing, negotiating, structuring, and subsequently supervising IFC's investment projects in agrifood systems. The MNA Fellow will help senior colleagues develop, refine and execute on engagement strategies for prospective and existing clients, and agribusiness subsectors and investment themes.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Build and maintain financial models, including financial projections.
• Analyze historical financial statements and prepare reports on the financial health and viability of a given company or project.
• Analyze financial projections and report on viability of businesses.
• Monitor operational and financial performance of client companies to evaluate risk and recommend proactive portfolio management actions and prepare regular portfolio reports.
• Conduct industry and market research to assist in IFC's business development efforts.
• Prepare presentations and other documentation as contributions to the Bank Group's (WBG) internal reporting and external communication, marketing and outreach.
• Build and maintain quality internal and external client relationships with a high level of responsiveness (including client coordination to ensure IFC receipt of needed information).
• Conduct mappings to assess business opportunities in agribusiness subsectors for the WBG.
• Identify data collection needs to support investment assessments including financial and market information as well as development impact and sectoral ESG challenges.
• Extract lessons of IFC's earlier investments or advisory mandates and other evaluative work as relevant to provide input to the structuring of new transactions or monitoring of existing transactions.
• Help prepare for and, as needed, participate in meetings and negotiations.

Selection Criteria
• A Master's degree in Finance, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering or a field closely related to one of them.
• At least 2 years work experience in a financial institution, particularly with investment projects, or in a major agribusiness company.
• Ability to develop complex financial models.
• Ability to conduct company financial statement analysis.
• Proven aptitude in the following areas: accounting, finance, financial modeling, DCF, scenario analysis, and comparable company analysis.
• Ability to conduct market/industry research and analysis incl. market conditions/gaps.
• Proven attention to detail.
• Ability to analyze, distill and summarize from large data pools and synthesize, including in areas such as debt pricing benchmarks and equity trading comparables.
• Ability to actively listen as proven by being attentive and listening to others in order to identify client and stakeholder needs.
• Ability to utilize graphics and tables to effectively and creatively present data.
• Ability to manage and complete multiple projects/tasks simultaneously and to meet deadlines under pressure.
• Understanding of how agribusiness investments impact market, and social development.
• Highly motivated, committed to highest ethical standard, ability to work successfully in multicultural teams and across boundaries.
• Commitment to development and the WBG's mission, strategies and values.
• Keen interest in development finance and multicultural environments.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills in English and fluency in other languages a plus. Ability to write & speak clearly in a logical, comprehensive yet concise manner.

As the WBG continues to evolve, we value candidates who:
• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively across teams, disciplines, cultures, and institutional boundaries.
• Responsibly leverage digital and AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity, learning, and decision-making.
• Bring experience working in Low Income Countries are encouraged to highlight relevant experience in their application materials, where applicable.

As the World Bank Group continues to evolve, we value candidates who:

• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively across teams, disciplines, cultures, and institutional boundaries.
• Responsibly leverage digital and AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity, learning, and decision-making.
• Bring experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, and violent (FCV) contexts and are encouraged to highlight relevant experience in their application materials, where applicable.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.