IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. We help developing countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, providing advisory services to businesses and governments, and mobilizing capital in the international financial markets. In fiscal 2011, amid economic uncertainty across the globe, we helped our clients create jobs, strengthen environmental performance, and contribute to their local communities—all while driving our investments to an all-time high of nearly $19 billion. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
IFC Advisory Services in Vietnam helps Vietnamese firms make their operations more efficient and client-friendly, and raise their international competitiveness by improving social, environmental, and corporate governance practices. We support Vietnam’s sustainable development by helping to attract international investment to vital sectors such as infrastructure, renewable energy, and microfinance. Our Advisory Services are structured into four business lines: Access to Finance, Investment Climate, Sustainable Business Advisory, and Public-Private Partnerships. In the Mekong region covering Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam, our advisory services are delivered in partnership with the European Union, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland.
Their operations in Vietnam will be expanding in 2012, and we are looking for qualified applicants for the following three positions. All positions will be expected to lead existing and potential assistance projects in their Business Line and the IFC portfolio, including developing excellent client relations, designing and implementing projects for meaningful development impact, and ensuring IFC procedures are respected. In addition, all positions are expected to contribute to the development of IFC’s Vietnam Program by actively identifying new opportunities for IFC, providing input to IFC’s strategy for their Business Lines and building relationships with industry stakeholders.
1. Microfinance Operations Officer, Access to Finance – A2F (position no.120038)
IFC intends to support the development of Vietnam’s nascent commercial microfinance sector and increase access to microfinance services to urban and rural poor by creating an enabling environment and a financial sector that can create and manage sustainable private sector institutions to serve a large number of low-income households.
The Microfinance Operations Officer is a local 2 year term appointment based in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. S/he will work closely with and under the supervision of the A2F Vietnam Program Manager. S/he will be primarily responsible for the implementation of A2F Microfinance (MF) projects in Vietnam. S/he must be an experienced professional whose knowledge and skills enable him/her to undertake project design, project implementation, and knowledge management initiatives with limited direct supervision.
Specific duties and accountabilities:
- Lead the MF project development by addressing all key aspects (scope of work, terms, deliverables, etc.), monitoring results, benchmarking against best practice, and consulting with the relevant stakeholders.
- Prepare project work plans, budgets and project operational documents, consistent with overall IFC objectives, plans and budgets. Ensure project(s) compliance with IFC’s overall financial market strategy and IFC procedures.
- Prepare terms-of-reference and help identify, select, and schedule consultant assignments; guide consultants in the effective delivery of their services, including monitoring their work to ensure that agreed deliverables are met and that they are captured in appropriate reports.
- Analyze developmental impact of the project(s). Document progress, resolve issues, and initiate improvements when needed.
- Pro-actively and effectively develop and nurture working relationship with government partners and private sector partners including, but not limited to, banks and MFIs.
- Communicate the progress of the project(s) and overall program to IFC and related partners, and proactively engage with IFC communications to ensure external and internal communications issues are well addressed.
- Liaise and work closely with the IFC investment in joint appraisal teams working on existing or new advisory and investment projects.
- Identify key lessons learned to be shared with the wider IFC A2F team, and develop IFC Smart Lessons and other internal knowledge management documents in Microfinance.
- Contribute to raising external funding and donor relations.
- Contribute to A2F strategy for Vietnam to maximize IFC’s financial and social returns in both investment and advisory services.
- Travel as necessary to support project design and development, and implementation.
Selection criteria:
- Master’s degree in Finance/Economics/Business Administration/Law or equivalent degree from a recognized institution.
- At least 5 years of relevant working experience in financial sector, preferably with hands on experience in Microfinance.
- Proven experience in managing a project, preferably donor-funded, including project design, implementation and completion.
- Ability to work independently, multi-task, deal with conflicting priorities and deliver high quality work on schedule.
- Excellent analytical skills, including ability to evaluate projects and business operations on technical, commercial, managerial, and financial grounds.
- Proven Relationship Management experience: ability to establish strong credibility among senior clients including government and private sector clients.
- Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to build cooperative networks.
·- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend practical solutions.
- Strong oral and written English skills, including ability to write and edit project/program documents.
- Ability and willingness to travel in Vietnam.
2. Associate Operations Officer/Operations Officer, Investment Climate (position no.120040)
IFC’s Investment Climate (IC) work focuses on improving the policies, laws, and regulations that affect domestic and foreign investors and influence their decisions to invest. Our East Asia and the Pacific portfolio consists of more than 20 projects with a total volume of more than $20 million, and more than 30 staff working in 9 offices throughout the region.
The Associate Operations Officer/Operations Officer position is a local 2 year term appointment based in Hanoi, with possible renewable extension subject to business need and satisfactory performance. S/he will support the Regional Business Line Leader in building and managing IFC’s regional portfolio of the business line’s respective advisory initiatives in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region and the program in Vietnam. S/he will work in close collaboration with regional colleagues and global experts, and regional departments. S/he is expected to participate in and contribute to IFC strategy discussions, new project development, and donor relations.
Specific duties and accountabilities:
- Maintain IC pipeline activities in line with regional and business line strategies
- Prepare portfolio or topical reviews or analyses and financial projections and present results.
- Manage project reporting cycles, ensuring high quality and on-time (i) Project Supervision Reports (PSRs), (ii) Donor Reports and Presentations, and (iii) Project Completion Reports (PCRs).
- Maintain deadlines for submission and completion of initial review of all reports and ensure project compliance with all IFC and donor requirements.
- Oversee updates to project/pipeline activities in line with management/business line network/portfolio review discussions.
- Serve as proxy to the Regional Business Line Leader in project processing activities.
- Support PMs as necessary with program and administrative needs.
- Prepare documents such as donor/partner concept papers and proposals; monitor program/project funding gaps/needs.
- Coordinate recruitment of business line staff; assist and coordinate selection and monitoring of consultants including the preparation of Terms of Reference, negotiation of fees, processing of contracts; work alongside consultants in technical assistance assignments.
- Coordinate and deliver on (ad-hoc) IFC regional management or head office requests for data or information on IC projects in the region.
- Lead coordination and preparation of business line specific meetings, conferences, study tours and other events.
- Proactively seek out international best practice, national/corporate compliance requirements and internal advice, share information, and work in teams with other colleagues.
- Travel as necessary in the region.
Selection criteria:
- Masters in Business Administration, Law, Economics, Finance or Development or equivalent professional qualification.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, preferably including overseas study/work.
- Experience with international and/or bilateral/multilateral development institutions, as well as prior work in advisory/consulting in private sector development.
- Knowledge of the institutional, legal, regulatory framework and business practices in Vietnam.
- Strong administrative and organizational skills.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Interested candidates please review the complete job description and apply on-line at http://www.ifc.org/careers and choose the relevant vacancy number. Please note that you need to register before submitting your application. The closing date is 20th February 2012. Only applicants selected for interview will be contacted.
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2012年1月19日星期四
Job Search Engine Adzuna.co.uk Receives £500k Investment Backing from Index Ventures
LONDON, January 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –
Adzuna, the next-generation job search engine, has today announced it has raised £500k investment financing from Index Ventures, The Accelerator Group and existing investors including Passion Capital. The latest funding follows a seed round last year.
Launched in July 2011, Adzuna classifieds aims to become the world’s leading search engine for classifieds, bringing together all the ads and connecting users with them in new ways.
Adzuna collates almost every job ad in the UK in real time from hundreds of websites, including all of the major job boards as well as sources like the London 2012 Olympics, Williams Formula 1 and the Royal Household. In addition to listing around 500,000 vacancies, the unique Adzuna Connect feature helps users “get hired with a little help from their friends” by connecting them to Adzuna jobs where they have first or second-degree connections on LinkedIn or Facebook.
The site also offers a wealth of data about the jobs and companies recruiting, from average salary data to employee reviews, interview questions and “CEO Approval ratings”.
Since launch in July, Adzuna has rapidly grown to hundreds of thousands of visitors per month, and was named a Top 20 Startup of 2011 by Startups.co.uk, a finalist in the Website of the Year awards, and shortlisted for the Europas.
This latest round of funding will be used to drive further product innovation around social and data, and expand into other verticals as well as international markets.
Robin Klein, Venture Partner at Index, said, “We’re delighted to be working with Andrew and Doug, experienced entrepreneurs whom we know well from their track records at Gumtree, Qype and Zoopla. The Adzuna team has achieved a great deal in a short period of time, and we believe the innovations they continue to bring to the market will change the way people search for classified ads.”
Doug Monro, Co-Founder of Adzuna, said: “We’re really excited to have top-class investors like Index, The Accelerator Group and Passion involved. We are passionate about making the classifieds search experience fundamentally better for users in the UK and beyond. This will help us towards that vision.”
About Adzuna
Adzuna.co.uk (http://www.adzuna.co.uk) is a search engine for classified ads which makes it easier for you to find the right job locally – and soon properties and cars too. We search thousands of sites so you don’t have to, bring together millions of ads so you can find them all in one place, and organize them with useful features so that you can easily find what you need.
Adzuna founders Andrew Hunter and Doug Monro met working at Gumtree in 2005. They stayed in the local internet space for the next 5 years and finally hatched the Adzuna plan in 2010 on the back of an envelope in a central London pub. The site was launched in July 2011.
Doug Monro was most recently COO of property portal Zoopla, leading the growth of the team from 5 to 75 people and the site to number 2 in UK property with 5M visitors a month. Previously he was MD of Gumtree.com, the UK’s largest classified ads site, and has worked for eBay UK, Bain & Co and Unilever. He has a BA in English from Cambridge and an MBA with distinction from Kellogg.
Andrew Hunter was mostly recently VP Marketing and General Manager of local review site Qype, where he grew the site from 0-17m monthly unique visitors in 2 years. Before Qype, Andrew was Head of Marketing at Gumtree.com and ran Search Marketing for the Thomas Cook Group. Andrew has a BSc in Business & Economics from Oxford Brookes University.
About Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a leading venture capital firm specializing in investments in information technology and life sciences companies. The firm invests in seed, early and growth stage start-ups across US and Europe. Since its inception in 1996, Index Ventures has backed visionary entrepreneurs who have taken on incumbents and built seminal companies in a number of growth sectors including: open source software companies such as MySQL, Trolltech, Zend and Pentaho; broadband and VOIP companies such as Virata, Skype, FON and Rebtel; Internet service companies such as Dropbox, Path, Betfair, Oanda, Last.fm, SpotRunner, Lovefilm, Stardoll and Netvibes; and life science companies such as Genmab, ParAllele Biosciences, BioXell, 7TM Pharma, Addex Pharmaceutical and PanGenetics.
About Passion Capital
Passion Capital (http://passioncapital.com) was established in March 2011 by Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero with the aim of becoming the premier early stage digital media and technology investment firm in the UK. The partners have more than 50 years’ collective experience in entrepreneurial, founding and executive operational roles in technology firms.
About The Accelerator Group (TAG)
Based in London, The Accelerator Group (TAG) has been an investor in early stage and start-up companies since 1995. They focus on the Internet services, eCommerce and multi-channel retail sectors, investing primarily in the US and Europe. TAG’s current investments include: Moo, Wonga, Moshi Monsters, Graze, Zoopla, Skimlinks and previously: LoveFilm, Fizzback, Tweetdeck and Dopplr.
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Adzuna, the next-generation job search engine, has today announced it has raised £500k investment financing from Index Ventures, The Accelerator Group and existing investors including Passion Capital. The latest funding follows a seed round last year.
Launched in July 2011, Adzuna classifieds aims to become the world’s leading search engine for classifieds, bringing together all the ads and connecting users with them in new ways.
Adzuna collates almost every job ad in the UK in real time from hundreds of websites, including all of the major job boards as well as sources like the London 2012 Olympics, Williams Formula 1 and the Royal Household. In addition to listing around 500,000 vacancies, the unique Adzuna Connect feature helps users “get hired with a little help from their friends” by connecting them to Adzuna jobs where they have first or second-degree connections on LinkedIn or Facebook.
The site also offers a wealth of data about the jobs and companies recruiting, from average salary data to employee reviews, interview questions and “CEO Approval ratings”.
Since launch in July, Adzuna has rapidly grown to hundreds of thousands of visitors per month, and was named a Top 20 Startup of 2011 by Startups.co.uk, a finalist in the Website of the Year awards, and shortlisted for the Europas.
This latest round of funding will be used to drive further product innovation around social and data, and expand into other verticals as well as international markets.
Robin Klein, Venture Partner at Index, said, “We’re delighted to be working with Andrew and Doug, experienced entrepreneurs whom we know well from their track records at Gumtree, Qype and Zoopla. The Adzuna team has achieved a great deal in a short period of time, and we believe the innovations they continue to bring to the market will change the way people search for classified ads.”
Doug Monro, Co-Founder of Adzuna, said: “We’re really excited to have top-class investors like Index, The Accelerator Group and Passion involved. We are passionate about making the classifieds search experience fundamentally better for users in the UK and beyond. This will help us towards that vision.”
About Adzuna
Adzuna.co.uk (http://www.adzuna.co.uk) is a search engine for classified ads which makes it easier for you to find the right job locally – and soon properties and cars too. We search thousands of sites so you don’t have to, bring together millions of ads so you can find them all in one place, and organize them with useful features so that you can easily find what you need.
Adzuna founders Andrew Hunter and Doug Monro met working at Gumtree in 2005. They stayed in the local internet space for the next 5 years and finally hatched the Adzuna plan in 2010 on the back of an envelope in a central London pub. The site was launched in July 2011.
Doug Monro was most recently COO of property portal Zoopla, leading the growth of the team from 5 to 75 people and the site to number 2 in UK property with 5M visitors a month. Previously he was MD of Gumtree.com, the UK’s largest classified ads site, and has worked for eBay UK, Bain & Co and Unilever. He has a BA in English from Cambridge and an MBA with distinction from Kellogg.
Andrew Hunter was mostly recently VP Marketing and General Manager of local review site Qype, where he grew the site from 0-17m monthly unique visitors in 2 years. Before Qype, Andrew was Head of Marketing at Gumtree.com and ran Search Marketing for the Thomas Cook Group. Andrew has a BSc in Business & Economics from Oxford Brookes University.
About Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a leading venture capital firm specializing in investments in information technology and life sciences companies. The firm invests in seed, early and growth stage start-ups across US and Europe. Since its inception in 1996, Index Ventures has backed visionary entrepreneurs who have taken on incumbents and built seminal companies in a number of growth sectors including: open source software companies such as MySQL, Trolltech, Zend and Pentaho; broadband and VOIP companies such as Virata, Skype, FON and Rebtel; Internet service companies such as Dropbox, Path, Betfair, Oanda, Last.fm, SpotRunner, Lovefilm, Stardoll and Netvibes; and life science companies such as Genmab, ParAllele Biosciences, BioXell, 7TM Pharma, Addex Pharmaceutical and PanGenetics.
About Passion Capital
Passion Capital (http://passioncapital.com) was established in March 2011 by Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero with the aim of becoming the premier early stage digital media and technology investment firm in the UK. The partners have more than 50 years’ collective experience in entrepreneurial, founding and executive operational roles in technology firms.
About The Accelerator Group (TAG)
Based in London, The Accelerator Group (TAG) has been an investor in early stage and start-up companies since 1995. They focus on the Internet services, eCommerce and multi-channel retail sectors, investing primarily in the US and Europe. TAG’s current investments include: Moo, Wonga, Moshi Monsters, Graze, Zoopla, Skimlinks and previously: LoveFilm, Fizzback, Tweetdeck and Dopplr.
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2012年1月4日星期三
Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Adds Two Managing Directors to Its Healthcare Investment Banking Group
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC, the investment and merchant bank focused on middle market companies, today announced the addition of two new Managing Directors, John Cramer and Andy Sherman, to its Healthcare Investment Banking Group, reporting to Group Head Marc Cabrera.
Mr. Cramer, has over 15 years of experience working with companies in the Specialty Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare IT and Healthcare Services subsectors, including completed engagements for equity and debt financing, M&A and restructuring. Since 1996 he has completed over 115 transactions having an aggregate value in excess of $20 billion.
Mr. Sherman has over 17 years of M&A expertise with a focus on Healthcare Services, Specialty Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices. He has completed over 90 transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $35 billion.
“The addition of John and Andy to our existing team bolsters our already strong presence in healthcare and underscores our firm’s commitment to continued growth,” said Mary Lou Malanoski, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan’s Vice Chair and Head of Investment Banking. “Their industry expertise, extensive relationships and diverse skills are a complement to our firm’s focus on providing differentiated, high-value services to the middle market. We believe Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is increasingly well positioned to serve this market with a solid core of professionals, and we are delighted to have John and Andy join our firm.
“Current conditions in the securities business provide us with the opportunity to add exceptionally qualified investment bankers like John and Andy, at a time when many of our competitors are reducing their staffs. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is committed to continue building capabilities in our four core industry verticals in order to better serve our investment banking clients.”
Previously, Mr. Cramer spent nine years at Gleacher & Company covering Healthcare, where he successfully completed lead-managed initial public offerings and follow-on equity offerings, private placements of debt and equity, buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions and creditor and debtor-side restructurings. Earlier, he covered Healthcare IT and services at Robertson, Stephens & Company and was an associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York City. He holds a Juris Doctor from The University of Michigan Law School and a BA from Albion College and Oxford University.
Prior to joining Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, Mr. Sherman was a senior member of the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Madison Williams. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Sherman worked in principal investing for KBL Healthcare Acquisition Corp. and Capitol Acquisition Corp., sourcing and executing transactions across various industries including healthcare services, specialty pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Sherman was at Banc of America Securities where he was a Principal in Investment Banking. Earlier, Mr. Sherman worked at Montgomery Securities and James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. Mr. Sherman received a Masters of Business Administration with Distinction from Harvard Business School, a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.
About Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC
Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC (www.mjta.com) is an investment and merchant bank engaged in providing financial advice, capital raising and private equity investing. The firm’s services include mergers, acquisitions and restructuring advice, in addition to private placements and public offerings of equity and debt, as well as research for institutional clients
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Mr. Cramer, has over 15 years of experience working with companies in the Specialty Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare IT and Healthcare Services subsectors, including completed engagements for equity and debt financing, M&A and restructuring. Since 1996 he has completed over 115 transactions having an aggregate value in excess of $20 billion.
Mr. Sherman has over 17 years of M&A expertise with a focus on Healthcare Services, Specialty Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices. He has completed over 90 transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $35 billion.
“The addition of John and Andy to our existing team bolsters our already strong presence in healthcare and underscores our firm’s commitment to continued growth,” said Mary Lou Malanoski, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan’s Vice Chair and Head of Investment Banking. “Their industry expertise, extensive relationships and diverse skills are a complement to our firm’s focus on providing differentiated, high-value services to the middle market. We believe Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is increasingly well positioned to serve this market with a solid core of professionals, and we are delighted to have John and Andy join our firm.
“Current conditions in the securities business provide us with the opportunity to add exceptionally qualified investment bankers like John and Andy, at a time when many of our competitors are reducing their staffs. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is committed to continue building capabilities in our four core industry verticals in order to better serve our investment banking clients.”
Previously, Mr. Cramer spent nine years at Gleacher & Company covering Healthcare, where he successfully completed lead-managed initial public offerings and follow-on equity offerings, private placements of debt and equity, buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions and creditor and debtor-side restructurings. Earlier, he covered Healthcare IT and services at Robertson, Stephens & Company and was an associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York City. He holds a Juris Doctor from The University of Michigan Law School and a BA from Albion College and Oxford University.
Prior to joining Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, Mr. Sherman was a senior member of the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Madison Williams. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Sherman worked in principal investing for KBL Healthcare Acquisition Corp. and Capitol Acquisition Corp., sourcing and executing transactions across various industries including healthcare services, specialty pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Sherman was at Banc of America Securities where he was a Principal in Investment Banking. Earlier, Mr. Sherman worked at Montgomery Securities and James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. Mr. Sherman received a Masters of Business Administration with Distinction from Harvard Business School, a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.
About Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC
Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC (www.mjta.com) is an investment and merchant bank engaged in providing financial advice, capital raising and private equity investing. The firm’s services include mergers, acquisitions and restructuring advice, in addition to private placements and public offerings of equity and debt, as well as research for institutional clients
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