Infrastructure-Fund Drawdown Recovery Authority

The mandate

Regional platforms request equity against construction certificates, operating deficits, reserves and refinancing needs, while fund administrators record commitments after different approval and currency cut-offs. Co-investor notices do not always reconcile to project ownership, and recycled proceeds have been counted as both available liquidity and reduced exposure. The portfolio-finance head departed after one urgent drawdown exceeded the approved funding envelope.

The twelve-month assignment begins within two weeks and covers commitment inventory, ownership, conditions precedent, drawdown eligibility, co-investor allocation, project evidence, currency, recycling, reserve, bridge financing, distribution and portfolio liquidity. The authority must stabilise current calls within sixty days, deliver three controlled quarter-ends and protect project continuity without assuming investment or engineering decisions.

Permanent recruitment opens in month six. Handover requires a fund-to-project commitment bridge, verified undrawn obligations, approved drawdown gates, co-investor reconciliation, currency and liquidity scenarios, three quarter closes and five platform files. The successor must resolve an unseen construction delay plus co-investor default during a six-week overlap and present funding choices without the interim’s shadow schedules.

The role may reject unsupported calls, require project and administrator evidence, set notice standards, approve delegated transfers within existing commitments, redirect the authorised QAR 350 million liquidity reserve and replace temporary finance leads. The committee retains investment approval, commitment increases, project continuation, co-investor enforcement, refinancing, asset sale, valuation, sovereign allocation and permanent appointments.

Engineering certification, construction command, legal enforcement, tax advice, valuation and investment recommendation remain outside scope. The leader may qualify their effect but cannot substitute a finance review for technical acceptance or governing-body approval. No project may be funded by silently reallocating another vehicle’s restricted cash or by treating uncertain recycling as committed liquidity.

Why this seat is open

Project platforms optimise delivery, administrators maintain vehicle books and Treasury manages cash, while the departed leader was the only person reconciling them before calls. The excess drawdown exposed both a control and authority gap. Temporary leadership is required through active construction and permanent succession without stopping properly authorised funding.

What you will own

• Reconcile investor commitments, platform ownership, approved project envelopes, prior calls, distributions, recycling and undrawn exposure.
• Establish evidence and approval for construction, operating, reserve, refinancing and emergency drawdown purposes.
• Validate co-investor shares, notice periods, defaults, cure, currency conversion, withholding and settlement by vehicle.
• Build liquidity scenarios for delayed distribution, accelerated construction, bridge maturity, currency shock and co-investor failure.
• Govern administrator files, call notices, project certificates, bank instructions, reconciliations and post-funding use evidence.
• Protect vehicle and project restrictions while escalating funding gaps before operational deadlines become emergencies.
• Transfer three quarter-ends, five platform files and the unseen delay-and-default scenario to the permanent leader.

Candidate qualifications

• Held senior fund or portfolio-finance authority across multi-country infrastructure investment platforms and construction-stage assets.
• Reconciled investor commitments, project drawdowns, co-investor shares, recycling, reserves and portfolio liquidity.
• Challenged unsupported calls while preserving authorised project continuity and respecting technical certification.
• Managed currencies, notice periods, bridge facilities, delayed distributions and co-investor defaults across fund structures.
• Presented commitment and liquidity scenarios to sovereign or institutional investment committees under time pressure.
• Completed succession through controlled quarter-ends and an unseen project-and-co-investor funding disruption.

Non-negotiables

• Can start within two weeks and complete five platform residencies during the twelve-month assignment.
• Will disclose sovereign, fund, project, co-investor, lender, administrator, engineering and advisory relationships.
• Brings fund-to-project drawdown control across live infrastructure assets; project modelling alone is insufficient.
• Will not approve investments, certify construction, enforce legal rights, value assets or move restricted cash between vehicles.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a capital call you rejected after project or ownership evidence was reconciled.
2. 49 words maximum. How would you distinguish recyclable proceeds from dependable near-term liquidity?
3. 49 words maximum. What delay-and-default scenario must the permanent leader resolve before handover?