International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Consultant

• Develop and operationalize a comprehensive resource mobilization strategy aligned with the priorities and programming cycles of key IFIs and climate funds.
• Build a robust, multi-year investment pipeline that packages project interventions attractively for diverse financiers.
• Strengthen organizational capacity to engage proactively and strategically with institutional donors, MDBs, and climate finance mechanisms.
• Produce high-quality, funder-ready deliverables, including concept notes, full proposals, pitch decks, and investment briefs.
• Leverage innovation and emerging financing instruments (e.g., blended finance, results-based finance, and green bonds) to maximize funding potential.
• Identify capacity, systems, and alignment gaps, and develop a pipeline document to support IWMI in transitioning its approaches, tools, and systems toward the evolving funding landscape.
• Produce a prioritized funding roadmap that identifies the highest-potential financing opportunities across four projects.
• Develop a multi-year Resource Mobilization Strategy covering various international donors.
• Build and maintain a live Investment Pipeline Dashboard tracking funding opportunities, proposal stages, and funding gaps across all projects.
• Leverage existing networks and relationships within targeted IFIs to facilitate access to key decision-makers.
• Provide expert guidance on the end-to-end institutional processes of key IFIs.

Consultant – Resource Mobilization, IFI Engagement Specialist

Financial Planning and Analysis

• The consultant will provide investment advisory and transaction support services to advance five selected agribusiness and partnership models to investment readiness and mobilize private-sector co-investment.
• Strengthen financial and commercial structuring, build institutional capacity to engage investors, and facilitate investment partnerships that support the scaling of climate-smart agricultural solutions.
• Review agribusiness models, program documentation, and the broader WASA framework.
• Engage with IWMI and stakeholders to refine the assignment approach.
• Develop an inception report outlining methodology, investment-readiness criteria, investor selection criteria, co-investment attribution methodology, risks, assumptions, and implementation workplan.
• Assess the commercial viability and financing requirements of each model.
• Develop investor-ready business cases, financial models, projections, and financing structures.
• Prepare professional investment materials suitable for commercial investors, impact investors, DFIs, and financial institutions.
• Design and deliver training on investment readiness, financial management, governance, deal negotiation, and inclusive financing.
• Strengthen the capacity of participating enterprises to engage effectively with investors and financiers.
• Document training outcomes, competencies developed, and recommendations for further support.
• Identify and engage relevant investors, financiers, and capital providers.
• Facilitate investor outreach, introductions, negotiations, and partnership discussions.
• Support the mobilization of the targeted **USD 500,000** in private-sector investment.
• Track and document investment pipelines, commitments, and results.

Consultant – Investment Readiness, Capital Mobilization

Administrative Assistant

• Provide comprehensive coordination and strategic support to the Water, Climate Change and Resilience (WCCR) Science Program Lead in planning and delivering high-profile international engagements.
• Work closely with WCCR leadership, researchers, communications, administration, and finance units to coordinate effective execution of various tasks.
• Focus on planning and execution of strategic events and partnerships, coordination and preparation of briefing materials, and engagement with key stakeholders.
• Liaise with finance, travel, and other internal service units as well as external partners and event organizers.
• Ensure timely delivery of outputs related to respective engagements.

Consultant – Resource Mobilization, IFI Engagement Specialist

Consultant – Investment Readiness, Capital Mobilization

Senior Administrative Coordinator – Event Management and Planning