Vice President, Financial Institutions

The Vice President has overall responsibility for leading and managing the Office of Small Business and Financial Services (OSBFS) of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). The OSBFS will facilitate DFC's investment into emerging market economies by providing medium- to long-term loans, guaranties, and risk mitigation instruments for often highly structured, complex transactions.

• Serve as a member of DFC's senior leadership team and participates in the Agency's overall strategy development, goal setting and execution of Agency-wide priorities and initiatives.
• Establishes and builds DFC's reputation to increase external stakeholder awareness of DFC's presence and impact in the assigned sector.
• Develop and maintain DFC's institutional expertise, including the key relevant relationships with banks, fund managers, investors, industry experts, regional experts, service providers, international finance institutions, US government partners and allies, and others.
• Provide strategic and operational direction to the organization financing activities spanning the entire lifecycle of the investment including business development, screening, due diligence, negotiating and structuring, approval, disbursement, and post-investment management and monitoring.
• Work with investment teams to prioritize potential investment opportunities based on the SBFS strategy, Administration priorities, and feasibility of the project.
• Distribute overall sector target across investment staff based on capabilities, experience, and interests. Determine resources required to accomplish strategic goals and objectives.
• Ensure that departmental staff adhere to all internal DFC policies and procedures.