Social Infrastructure Investments Transactions Manager
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Location: Riyadh
Company: The Royal Commission for AlUla
Job Details
Job Purpose
Play a central role in originating, structuring, and executing social infrastructure investment opportunities across priority sectors such as education, healthcare, culture, sports, and community assets. In addition, responsible for leading the end-to-end investment journey, from early market sounding and investor engagement through to feasibility development, transaction structuring, procurement (RFIs/RFPs), bid evaluation, and investment recommendations, and support the head in selecting optimal private-sector partners aligned with RCU’s strategic, social, and financial objectives.
Functional Responsibilities
- Lead the structuring and execution of social infrastructure transactions.
- Support the development of appropriate commercial, contractual, and risk-allocation structures aligned with project objectives and market appetite.
- Coordinate internal approvals and investment governance processes throughout the transaction lifecycle.
- Prepare investment recommendations and decision papers for Senior management, Head of Investment Executive program and CEO.
- Lead engagement with local, regional, and international investors, operators, developers, and financiers active in social infrastructure.
- Conduct structured market soundings to test investor appetite, risk tolerance, pricing expectations, and delivery models.
- Manage ongoing investor communications throughout the investment journey, ensuring clarity, transparency, and alignment with RCU objectives
- Support the positioning of projects under the “Invest in AlUla” platform to attract credible and long-term partners
- Prepare high-level feasibility assessments covering commercial, financial, and delivery considerations for social infrastructure projects.
- Develop and review financial models to assess affordability, value for money, funding structures, and long-term sustainability.
- Support sensitivity analysis and risk assessments to inform structuring decisions
- Lead the preparation and issuance of RFIs, RFPs, and other tendering documents in coordination with legal, technical, and sector teams
- Manage bidder interactions during tendering, including clarification processes and data room coordination
- Oversee bid evaluation processes, including financial, commercial, and strategic assessments
- Consolidate evaluation results and provide clear recommendations on preferred bidders and investment partners
- Work closely with sector teams, legal, finance, procurement, and technical advisors to ensure transactions are deliverable and aligned.
- Ensure that social objectives, service outcomes, and long-term operational considerations are embedded within transaction structures.
- Support contract negotiations up to financial close and handover to delivery teams.
Managerial Responsibilities
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, a related field.
Work Experience
- 6 years of relevant experience plus 2 years in a managerial role
Other Requirements
Competencies
- Accounting Management and Principles - Advanced
- Balances Stakeholders - Contributes Through Others
- Being Resilient - Contributes Through Others
- Builds Effective Teams-Contributes Through Others
- Collaborates - Contributes Through Others
- Communicates Effectively - Contributes Through Others
- Customer Focus -Contributes Through Others
- Drives Vision and Purpose - Contributes Through Others
- Ensures Accountability - Contributes Through Others
- Financial Advisory - Expert
- Manages Complexity - Contributes Through Others
- Plans and Aligns -Contributes Through Others
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