Job Purpose:
Play a central role in originating, structuring, and executing social infrastructure investment opportunities across priority sectors such as education, healthcare, culture, sports, and community assets. In addition, responsible for leading the end-to-end investment journey, from early market sounding and investor engagement through to feasibility development, transaction structuring, procurement (RFIs/RFPs), bid evaluation, and investment recommendations, and support the head in selecting optimal private-sector partners aligned with RCU's strategic, social, and financial objectives.
Functional Responsibilities:
- Support contract negotiations up to financial close and handover to delivery teams.
- Ensure that social objectives, service outcomes, and long-term operational considerations are embedded within transaction structures.
- Work closely with sector teams, legal, finance, procurement, and technical advisors to ensure transactions are deliverable and aligned.
- Consolidate evaluation results and provide clear recommendations on preferred bidders and investment partners.
- Oversee bid evaluation processes, including financial, commercial, and strategic assessments.
- Manage bidder interactions during tendering, including clarification processes and data room coordination.
- Lead the preparation and issuance of RFIs, RFPs, and other tendering documents in coordination with legal, technical, and sector teams.
- Support sensitivity analysis and risk assessments to inform structuring decisions.
- Develop and review financial models to assess affordability, value for money, funding structures, and long-term sustainability.
- Prepare high-level feasibility assessments covering commercial, financial, and delivery considerations for social infrastructure projects.
- Support the positioning of projects under the Invest in AlUla platform to attract credible and long-term partners.
- Manage ongoing investor communications throughout the investment journey, ensuring clarity, transparency, and alignment with RCU objectives.
- Conduct structured market soundings to test investor appetite, risk tolerance, pricing expectations, and delivery models.
- Lead engagement with local, regional, and international investors, operators, developers, and financiers active in social infrastructure.
- Prepare investment recommendations and decision papers for Senior management, Head of Investment Executive program and CEO.
- Coordinate internal approvals and investment governance processes throughout the transaction lifecycle.
- Support the development of appropriate commercial, contractual, and risk-allocation structures aligned with project objectives and market appetite.
- Lead the structuring and execution of social infrastructure transactions.
Managerial Responsibilities:
- Provide input to the sector's strategy from the Department's or Section's perspective in line with RCU overall vision and mission.
- Develop the Department's or Section's objectives, KPIs, annual operational plans and ensure plan execution is meeting the targets Contribute to the preparation of the Department's or Section's annual budget and monitor the financial performance of the Department or Section.
- Implement and execute the Department's or Section's policies and procedures.
- Oversee the overall performance of the section and ensure KPI's are well developed, cascaded, communicated and monitored.
- Ensure effective staffing, professional development and deployment of staff of the Department or Section in consultation with the Sector Executive or (Executive) Director.
Job Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management, Accounting, or a related field. (Master's Degree in CFA, ACA, CPA, MBA is preferred).
• 6 years of relevant experience with 2 years in a managerial role.
• Experience in valuation, financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Written and Oral proficiency of Arabic & English languages.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Time management and organization skills.
• Familiarity with standards, regulations, best practices, and performance standards.
• Maintains a high standard of professionalism, presentation, personal integrity, and customer support.
• Strong financial and strategic thinking abilities.
• Proficiency in financial analysis and modeling tools.
