Looking for a role where your infrastructure project development experience can be used to reduce poverty and to support economic and sustainable development?

Does joining a team who collectively identify, evaluate and develop critical infrastructure projects in developing countries from feasibility to implementation sound like your next calling?


Swedfund are looking for an experienced project manager with exposure to emerging markets and developing infrastructure projects within the transport sector.

Aside from taking on responsibilities for ensuring smooth project progression for projects with a specific focus on sustainable transport solutions such as public transport and/or rail, you will also be tasked with the following,

• Take responsibility for a portfolio of projects for the transport segment, driving strategy and portfolio development
• Supporting the project owner to take projects through the project development stages and to help develop terms of reference for specific project development studies such as feasibility studies, environmental and social impact assessments
• Ensuring productive and strong key stakeholder relationships with various public and private agencies
• Enhancing the local project owner’s capacity to procure and develop sustainable solutions aligned with Swedfund’s guidelines
• Ensure successful project implementation via coordinating the engagement and involvement of various technical advisors and project owners
• Manage complex project related dialogues with both local and foreign partners
• Develop and improve the wider team’s knowledge of the transport sector as well as internal processes and operations

The position is located in the office in Stockholm; however, the position involves regular international travel comprising around about 6 trips per year of 5 day’s duration per trip.

Your profile?

Relevant candidates will possess at least 7 years of relevant work experience from the transport sector incorporating arears such as public transport, bus and road transport or rail transport. Solid experience from within transport infrastructure projects is required, most probably from an international industrial provider or technical consulting roles, or similar. This alongside your experience and interest in international operations will ensure success in the role. Exposure to project financing is preferable.

Qualifications 

What's needed?

• Academic degree in Economics, Engineering or Social sciences
• At least 7 years of relevant experience
• Extensive experience within infrastructure project management combined with tendering of civil engineering and transport infrastructure projects
• Extensive experience from the transport sector
• International experience
• Project development and project financing experience with Team Sweden/ EKN, SEK or similar.
• Professional levels of English

What's preferred?

• Experience with sustainability issues and how these can be addressed within the framework of feasibility or other types of preparatory studies
• Experience from developing countries
• Experience of collaborating with development banks and other financiers.
• Experience and understanding of publicly funded activities

About Swedfund

Swedfund, established in 1979, is a state-owned company managed by the Swedish Ministry of Finance. Swedfund is Sweden’s development finance institution with the mission of fighting poverty through sustainable investments in developing countries. Through their work, they contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement. They share the same goal as Swedish development cooperation - a world without poverty - but they use different tools.

Swedfund implements sustainable investments in the private sector and work on technical feasibility studies and capacity building in relation to public actors.  The operations are financed by reflows from the portfolio and through capital injections from the development cooperation budget, for which the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs is responsible.

Swedfund’s business model is centred on generating results within three pillars: impact on society, sustainability, and financial viability.

Swedfund's Project Accelerator contributes to the development, financing and long-term sustainability of critical projects in our partner countries. The Project Accelerator works with public actors in developing countries to enable and accelerate the development of sustainable and bankable projects. The collaboration often extends over the entire project development process and includes different support and efforts depending on the project. Part of the offer means that Swedfund can finance feasibility studies and other forms of efforts that are necessary to enable decision-making and financing.

Questions and contact

This role is based in Stockholm and final candidates will be subjected to background screening. Interviews and selection are conducted on an ongoing basis and selected candidates will be subjected to a background control.

We are looking forward to receiving your application asap. If you have any questions regarding the recruitment, kindly contact shaun.ogden@amendo.se.

Applications are open until November 30th, shortly thereafter we will update applicants on the status of their application.

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