The services to be provided under the assignment include providing industry insights and technical support to the Director, Infrastructure and Urban Development Department, (PICU) and strategic advice to the Vice President at key stages in the project cycle of transport projects; advising the private sector infrastructure team on transport projects focusing on market viability, technical robustness, risk / mitigation and AfDB industry value add; providing sector knowledge and expertise to evaluate transport projects from a commercial, managerial, technical, developmental, climate and gender perspective; enhancing the quality of entry of projects in the Bank’s portfolio; improving the speed of transaction execution and enabling the scaling up of NSO and PPP transport projects; providing guidance and support to investment officers in the appraisal of new investments in the following subsectors: ports, railways, urban transit, airports, transportation logistics and warehousing, shipping, and barging, aviation sector, electric vehicles and new mobility patterns; support PPP due diligence, transaction structuring and advisory services activities as part of Bank operations to enable PPP operations to secure commercial closure and where possible financial closure.