The Funds objective is to establish large-scale mechanized commercial agribusinesses in irrigable areas suited to staple crop farming, agro-processing and agro-allied businesses. Structured as an open-ended Fund, the Fund will actively seek new wealth creation opportunities across diverse agricultural value chains through collaboration with local and international partners.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Apply financial guidelines to considered and actual investments, and provide recommendations on viability, compliance, improvement and monitoring systems
- Gather, verify and analyze information about potential or current investments. Actively seek, solicit, and market to generate projects for investment
- Conduct due diligence of projects as appropriate at each stage of pipeline
- Provide business advisory support
- Make decisions based on due diligence or monitoring, with regard to whether and how to proceed with investment
- Work on negotiation, structuring and legal documentation of investments
- Maintain relationships and monitor activities of approved investments
- Establish key operational indicators for each project
- Review operational, management and financial, reports and plans on a regular basis
- Prepare Investment Proposals for presentation to and consideration by Investment Committee
- Submit additional reports on operations as requested by Board or Investment Committee
- Maintain relationships with partners, government, business and investors, to identify and evaluate potential projects, monitor and provide business assistance to active investments
- Build resource network of real estate, business and investment professionals
- Originate and source business for the unit- mainlany advisory mandates and fund and RE proprietary invetments
Daily Activities/ Tasks
- Sourcing potential investments.
- Supervising Mandates.
- Managing relationships on projects directly under supervision in terms of portfolio execution.
- Monitoring operational and financial performance of proposed projects.
- Working with project principals on negotiation, structuring and legal documentation of investments.
- Monitoring investments in portfolios and making supported recommendations to management regarding the sale of holdings, valuations and exits and upon management approval, execute the recommendations.
- Performing investor relations duties as follows:
- Ensuring proper liaison between the department and its clients and managing communication between the department and its clients to ensure that critical information and client reports are prepared on a timely basis and are circulated to the appropriate persons.
- Work on negotiation, structuring and legal documentation of investments
- Conduct due diligence of projects as appropriate at each stage of pipeline
- Create / review financial models to guide in the investment decision making process
- Provide business advisory support
- Maintain relationships and monitor activities of approved investments
- Prepare Investment Proposals for presentation to and consideration by Investment Committee
- Submit additional reports on operations as requested by Board or Investment Committee
Desired Skills and Experience
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