Head Executive Officer - African Trade Transformation Financial support at the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Cairo, Egypt

Organization:

the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank)

Job Location:

Cairo, Egypt

Employment Type:

Full time
Date Posted:

Job Description

At least Credentials:

MSC in Finance, Banking, Economics, Management, Law, Engineering, Sciences, or a relevant field from a appropriate specialist certification in Finance, Banking, Accounting, Law Engineering, or associated disciplines may be accepted in lieu of the MSC.

Competencies & Expertise:

  • Established history of successfully top asset mobilisation, transaction arranging, and project sample management within a concessional and blended finance circumstance.
  • Understanding with processes and operating modalities of concessional finance windows of development finance
  • At least 15 years of applicable executive guidance and industry experience in African economies and other conceptualizing markets, offering concessional, development finance and/or associated finance.
  • Demonstrated expertise and clear comprehension of coordinating fiduciary duties for Trust capital, the Afreximbank mandate, and its organizational approach of transforming African trade.
  • Thorough expertise in Africa’s trade and development concerns and the possibility position of concessional funding in assisting economic and trade initiatives.
  • Proven expertise in compelling top level authorities of sovereign and private team members, which includes foundations and philanthropies, corporations, and development and multi-party entities, to acquire and leverage assets for concessional programs.
  • Outstanding verbal and professional writing competencies in Expertise in French, Arabic, and/or Portuguese can be a desirable asset
  • Readiness to commute extensively and to operate long hours where necessary to attain set.
  • Exhibited executive guidance capabilities, which includes building and fostering connections with within and outside the organization counterparties to achieve targets.
  • Proven expertise in establishing greenfield institutions of wide
  • Demonstrated expertise in conceptualizing and using creative resources to solve trade and development
  • Demonstrated expertise in and expertise in multi-party financial institutions, especially those that confer preferred creditor status.
  • Thorough comprehension of Africa’s financial architecture and expertise in trading with members of the Alliance of African Multi-party Finance Institutions (the “Africa Club”).
  • Expertise and comprehension of concessional funding program presented by MDBs, foundations, sovereign donors and other development agencies, especially those concentrating on Africa and other conceptualizing economies.
  • Capability to convey and operation in a culturally multifaceted and adjustment-oriented setting, which includes expertise in the workings of the main segments of the African project and export finance markets, which includes risk risk reduction
  • Productive transaction team lead and robust collaboration
  • Skills

Competence:

  • Exhibited capability to formulate and implement strategic business strategies in a sophisticated, multi-national
  • Deep comprehension concessional finance, risk mitigation strategy, and financial
  • Capability to head a multifaceted team, motivate partnership, and lead business
  • Competence in bargain, sales, and building strategic
  • Robust financial strategic insight with expertise coordinating financial plans, finance reporting, and treasury
  • Deep knowledge of compliance obligations Finance Management across Africa and

Management abilities:

  • Visionary executive guidance with a concentration on creative invention and pushing
  • Verified ability to train, mentor, and formulate
  • Outstanding strategic judgment and analytical abilities, with a concentration on long-term business
  • Capability to build and sustain connections at top level levels, both internally and

People skills:

  • Clear expression and public speaking, with fluency in English (French, Arabic, and/or Portuguese is a plus).
  • Capability to participate and shape participants at various levels, from board members to government
  • A culturally sensitive approach to executive guidance, with expertise operating across various countries and

Behavioural Skills:

  • Dedication to Africa and assisting the empowerment of Africans
  • Uncompromising honesty and reliability
  • Eagerness to grow and Lead
  • Collaboration
  • Trust and Respect for the Individual
  • Creative invention, Superiority and Adaptive schedule
  • Competence and Responsiveness

Note

Your Resume, with teaching and professional certification and full job record, which includes an clarification of any differences in your job record and description where possible, of financial plans and numbers of people; A short covering statement of no more than two A4-sized pages (1000 words) clarifying why this assignment interests you and how you can evidence your appropriateness for the position, with particular letter of recommendation to the evaluation benchmarks in the ‘Applicant background’ section.

Application Due Date

  • Tuesday 30th Dec, 2025

Steps To Apply

Suitable applicants should send their Resume to: responses@russellreynolds.com using “the Position name as the subject of the email. Note Your Resume, with teaching and professional certification and full job record, which includes an clarification of any differences in your job record and descrip Click here possible, of financial plans and numbers of people; A short covering statement of no more than two A4-sized pages (1000 words) clarifying why this assignment interests you and how you can evidence your appropriateness for the position, with particular letter of recommendation to the evaluation benchmarks in the ‘Applicant background’ section.

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