Senior PPP / Blended Finance Expert

About the role

NTU International is seeking a Senior PPP / Blended Finance Expert to support the EU‑funded Technical Assistance to ECOWAS in Transport Governance. The role will focus on strengthening the financial and institutional capacities needed to develop bankable transport infrastructure projects across the ECOWAS region.

Key responsibilities

• Support the structuring and financing of regional transport infrastructure and corridor investment projects.
• Provide technical advice on Public‑Private Partnerships, blended‑finance mechanisms and infrastructure investment models.
• Conduct financial, economic and commercial analyses for transport projects and prepare bankable investment proposals.
• Advise ECOWAS institutions and national stakeholders on risk allocation, private‑sector participation and financing strategies.
• Identify and mobilise climate‑finance and sustainable infrastructure funding opportunities.
• Develop and review financial models, PPP structures and investment frameworks.
• Facilitate dialogue with development finance institutions, donors, investors and private‑sector partners.
• Deliver workshops, technical assistance and capacity‑building activities on PPPs and project finance.
• Contribute to monitoring, reporting and analytical outputs related to infrastructure financing.

Required profile

• Master’s degree in economics, finance, business administration, infrastructure finance, public policy or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in infrastructure finance, PPP advisory, investment structuring or blended finance.
• At least 7 years of experience specifically in PPPs, project finance or blended‑finance advisory, preferably in transport projects in developing countries.
• Experience working on international development cooperation and donor‑funded programmes.

Required skills

• PPP structuring and negotiation
• Blended‑finance design and implementation
• Financial modelling for infrastructure projects
• Project finance analysis
• Risk allocation and mitigation
• Climate‑finance mobilisation
• Stakeholder engagement with DFIs, donors and private investors