Consultant/senior consultant for Rebel America

Rebel is seeking candidates for a full-time Consultant or Senior Consultant position, depending on your relevant experience.

• Financial analysis: Perform financial analysis and modeling of transactions and financial scenarios as relevant for client context;
• Report writing and presentations: Research and draft sections of deliverables (both in Word and PowerPoint format) that may include making recommendations from financial analysis of transactions, developing alternative financial and project delivery strategies, drafting commercial aspects of procurement documentation, and evaluating bids on behalf of clients;
• Client engagement: Inspire client confidence when engaging on inputs, project progress, and deliverables. Present analysis during client meetings;
• Business development: Contribute to proposals in response to requests from public agencies, multilateral development banks, private infrastructure developers, and others; and
• Other responsibilities: Contribute to our company by assuming ad-hoc responsibilities that are outside of day-to-day client work (e.g. recruitment, developing marketing materials, etc.).

Travel: Projects may require domestic or international travel of up to approximately 25% of the time.

The ideal candidate possesses the following profile:

• 2-5 years of infrastructure experience with a public agency; financial institution; consulting firm; and/or planning, engineering, or development firm;
• Master’s degree in finance, economics, business, public policy, urban planning, or related fields;
• High level of competence in Microsoft Excel, incl. experience with cash flow financial models;
• Excellent English writing and communications skills (Spanish or Portuguese skills are a plus!);
• Passion for making an impact in Rebel’s primary sectors;
• A proactive drive for ownership of projects, business development, and in the company;
• The ability to navigate and thrive in an entrepreneurial, flat, and collaborative environment.

We strongly encourage people of color, women, and LGBTQ applicants to apply.

Equal Opportunity Employment: To provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all, Rebel bases its employment decisions on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Rebel is an equal opportunity employer. It does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please send a cover letter that tells us why you think you’re a good fit for this position (please be creative and concise), a resume, and a short writing sample on a relevant topic (up to 3 pages) to recruitment-americas@rebelgroup.com. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to complete a writing, presentation, or Excel-based case study.

Rebel is one of the leading international infrastructure advisors, developers, and investors, headquartered in the Netherlands. In its Washington, D.C. office, Rebel advises public and private sector clients around the world, helping them bridge the gap between their infrastructure needs and available resources by focusing on innovative funding and financing, public-private partnerships, risk analysis, and alternative delivery strategies. Rebel is an employee-owned company that prizes initiative, innovation, and insight in serving our client’s multi-faceted challenges in a cooperative and collegial environment.

Our notable recent work includes:

• Advancing innovative procurement and financing for social infrastructure, including Washoe County (NV), Miami-Dade County (FL), Clackamas County (OR), and Howard County (MD) Courthouses.
• Advising the California Department of Technology on an innovative procurement for an Operations Third Party Administrator to operate, maintain and commercialize the statewide Middle Mile Broadband Network.
• Accelerating the transition to zero-emission transit buses with the California Department of Transportation through new partnership and coordination models.
• Assisting the Atlanta Airport Community Improvement Districts (AACIDs) in procuring a developer for an Automated Transit Network demonstration project.
• Supporting the Maryland Department of Transportation in joint development transactions to transform rail stations into walkable, transit-oriented communities.
• Partnering with the City of Baltimore to convert an old industrial building into a new public safety complex and to reenergize downtown.
• Supporting Montgomery County (MD) to develop funding and financing sources for new Bus Rapid Transit projects that will reduce traffic, carbon emissions, and improve transportation equity.
• Developing a regional guidebook on inclusive PPPs to support public officials in Latin America and the Caribbean in integrating social inclusion across the PPP project lifecycle.
• Designing a financial strategy for sustainable transit-oriented development pilot projects in Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, incorporating land value capture instruments.
• Developing a methodology for conducting climate impact assessments for projects within Jamaica’s public investment management system.

Rebel America’s clients include governments, international financial institutions, and private firms in most major infrastructure sectors including:

• Transportation: bus and rail transit, passenger rail, highways and toll roads, parking, bike/pedestrian trails, and microtransit;
• Social Infrastructure: government offices, schools, university buildings, hospitals, courthouses, stadiums, and other public buildings;
• Technology: broadband, connected vehicles, transit ticketing, bus electrification;
• Climate Resilience: infrastructure measures to address climate change;
• Energy: renewable energy technologies including solar, wind, and hydropower;
• Aviation and Ports: domestic and international owners and operators of commercial and general aviation airports and port facilities;
• Utilities: public and private organizations responsible for providing water, wastewater, and waste and storm water management.

Rebel’s advisory service offerings include financial analysis and modeling, transaction advisory, procurement strategy advisory, performance management and audits, PPP policy development, and capacity building.