Principal Consultant - Capital Mobilisation & Blended Finance

About the role

SkyQuest Technology Consulting is looking for an experienced Principal Consultant to lead the design of a multi-source financing facility and its blended-capital architecture. The role combines financial structuring, engagement with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and impact investors, negotiation of risk-sharing arrangements and the development of a practical capital-mobilisation strategy. You will sit in an embedded Technical Support Unit (TSU) of senior specialists, working closely with the Institution's executive management and treasury teams and reporting to the TSU Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Assess the Institution's existing funding base and map the broader agricultural-finance capital landscape.
• Design the facility's capital structure and blended-capital architecture, including SPV structures, capital tranching, waterfalls, risk allocation and exit or takeout mechanisms.
• Structure guarantees, co-investment arrangements and risk-sharing facilities with development partners and capital providers.
• Lead engagement with DFIs, foundations, impact investors, commercial lenders and guarantee providers.
• Develop an investor pipeline and validate proposed facility structures with prospective anchor investors and initial transactions.
• Prepare or oversee financing documentation, investor presentations, reporting standards and the overall capital-mobilisation strategy.
• Advise executive management on capital strategy and support engagement with concessional and commercial capital providers.
• Collaborate with the agri-finance and credit-risk specialist to align guarantee and risk-sharing structures with lending products.
• Support the programme's transition and sustainability plan, ensuring the transfer of tools, processes and stakeholder relationships to designated Institution teams.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Development Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline; CFA or an equivalent professional qualification is an advantage.
• 15+ years of experience in blended finance, structured finance or development finance, preferably with DFIs or impact investors.
• Demonstrated experience structuring SPVs, guarantees and risk-sharing facilities through to committed capital.
• Established network across DFIs, foundations and impact investors, with strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills.
• Proven experience advising executive management teams and Boards of financial institutions.
• Desirable: experience in African or emerging-market development finance, particularly Nigeria; experience leading institutional transformation programmes; experience on development-partner-funded programmes.