Do you want to use your investment expertise to drive sustainable growth and support the transition to resilient infrastructure and renewable energy in emerging markets? Swedfund is now seeking an Investment Director to join its Energy & Climate team – a unique opportunity to work with high-impact investments across developing markets, with a particular focus on Ukraine.

About the Role

Swedfund’s Energy & Climate team invests across a broad range of sectors that contribute to sustainable development and climate resilience, including renewable energy, resilient infrastructure and natural capital. As an Investment Director, you will work across the full investment cycle, from origination and structuring through execution and portfolio management.

The role offers broad exposure to Swedfund’s core geographies, instruments and investment structures. Initially, and likely also beyond, a significant focus for this role will be on investments related to Ukraine given Swedfund’s specific investment mandate in that country. The expectation is also that the role will be tilted relatively more to debt investments.

You will work closely with colleagues across investment, legal, sustainability, risk and impact functions, while also engaging extensively with external stakeholders such as sponsors, developers, co-investors, lenders and portfolio companies. The position is based in Stockholm and involves regular travel abroad.

Key Responsibilities

• Originate and develop new investment opportunities through proactive market engagement and relationship-building with sponsors, developers, lenders, co-investors and other stakeholders

• Lead and take senior responsibility for investments throughout the full transaction lifecycle, including origination, due diligence, structuring, approval, documentation, closing and portfolio management

• Structure, negotiate and execute investments across direct debt, equity and intermediated structures, including funds

• Drive value creation and monitor risk across existing investments

• Lead cross-functional project teams throughout transaction processes, ensuring high-quality execution and effective collaboration across investment, legal, sustainability, risk and impact functions

• Contribute to business development initiatives and maintain strong relationships with existing and potential partners

• Drive continual growth, knowledge-sharing and insight into sector-related markets and investment developments

• Provide guidance, coaching and mentorship to more junior investment colleagues

Your Profile

We are looking for candidates with at least 20 years of relevant investment experience, ideally from a leading development finance institution (DFI) or multilateral finance institution, such as EBRD, EIB or NIB. Candidates with backgrounds in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, M&A, commercial banking or infrastructure funds are also highly relevant.

You bring a strong track record of transaction execution and investment leadership across the full lifecycle. International transaction experience is highly valued, particularly within renewable energy, infrastructure or emerging markets. Experience with debt investments and structured lending is highly relevant, as is experience with transactions in complex or challenging markets.

You are fluent in English, and Swedish is considered an advantage (as is Ukrainian).

To succeed in this role, you are likely:

• Commercially driven and relationship-oriented

• Confident in leading complex investment processes and engaging with senior external stakeholders

• Analytical, structured and comfortable managing complex transactions

• Pro-active and focused on getting things done, to a high degree of quality

• A strong communicator with sound judgment and high professional integrity

• Motivated by combining financial expertise with measurable development impact

• Collaborative, with a demonstrated ability to lead, coach and develop colleagues

What we offer

You will be offered the opportunity to work with sustainable investments in an international environment. At Swedfund, you will become part of a committed and generous culture. We share experiences, support one another, and work together to make a real difference.

Our offices are located in attractive premises in central Stockholm at Drottninggatan 92.

In this recruitment process, Swedfund is partnering with Jurek Executive Search. For more information about the position, please contact the responsible recruitment consultant Malin Sjöström at +46 709 721 470 or malin.sjostrom@jurek.se.

We warmly welcome your application!

About Swedfund

Swedfund is Sweden’s development finance institution with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable investments in developing countries. We finance and develop businesses that contribute to sustainable growth, job creation and increased access to essential products and services.

Swedfund is a state-owned company established in 1979 and has over 100 employees, with head office in Stockholm and regional offices in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Nairobi, Kenya, Kyiv, Ukraine and Bangkok, Thailand.

Jurek Executive Search identifies and attracts leaders who accelerate change and deliver results. We combine deep business insight with experience from assignments across all industries and markets, delivering precise placements regardless of geographic location. Our approach is based on sharp analysis, traditional search, and modern, data-driven tools. We know that the right leaders not only strengthen the business today but also shape tomorrow’s success.