Project Finance Associate / Project Finance Associate Director

Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You may qualify at the GS-12 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following: 1) Experience working with a team on international projects or investments while working at a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, multilateral organization, or other comparable governmental entity; 2) Experience reviewing financial statements for businesses located in developing countries; 3) Experience building financial models to determine ability of a company to repay its debt and sensitivity analyses to test those assumptions; 4) Experience conducting analyses in THREE of the following four areas: financial analysis of international ventures, calculating credit risk exposure of international ventures, detailed credit analysis of international ventures, or market analysis of business ventures in developing countries; and 5) Experience identifying international financial or investment policy issues to identify TWO of the following three areas: political, economic or credit risks of projects located outside the United States. Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. You may qualify at the GS-13 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following:1) Conducting and reviewing project finance loan origination, including FIVE of the following: financial analysis legal structuring financial or political risk analysis detailed credit analysis presentation of loan packages to credit approval committees as part of a team loan negotiations of limited recourse project finance transactions in developing countries; 2) Experience creating, analyzing, auditing, and running sensitivities on financial models for debt finance in the project finance manner for projects located in developing markets; 3) Working on international investments or international financial transactions in a commercial bank, investment bank, international financial institution, multilateral organization, or other comparable governmental entity; and 4) Experience in the financial services industry with experience gained in at least THREE of the following areas: project finance corporate finance accounting credit analysis international investments commercial/investment banking Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement 25-OE-DE-12564946-BN using Delegated Examining (DE) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet DE requirements and can apply to that announcement. NOTE: You must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered under both. This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur.
Located in the Office of Energy, you will manage complex, sensitive, and precedent-setting finance projects. You will carry out the full range of new project financings and undertake all tasks required to process transactions from initial screening to due diligence, negotiating & structuring, approval, documentation, closing & funding.