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Form of workPost of duty: Washington DC.
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
Established in 1959, the Inter-American Development Bank (“IDB” or “Bank”) is the main source of financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It provides loans, grants, guarantees, policy advice and technical assistance to the public and private sectors of its borrowing countries.
The Analytics and Decision Support Unit (VPF/ADS) produces analytics for decision making at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels identifying, extracting and analyzing data, ensuring strong client focus and excellence in service delivery. The Unit provides technical and functional advice to Senior Management on information issues related to resources allocation, internal strategies, programs and initiatives. It dedicatedly integrates multidisciplinary groups to identify, design and implement optimization/simplification of operational processes and procedures, as well as change management.
The team’s mission:
- Provide support to ADS Dashboards, including but not limited to: maintenance, upgrade and enhancements.
- Enable reports and dashboards on mobile and tablet devices (Android, iOS).
- Analyze, design, develop, and integrate standard reports into a Reports portal.
- Design and develop dashboards that organize, and present information housed at the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
What you’ll do
The selected candidate will:
Reports and Dashboards
- Analyze source data of different types and design programs for extraction, transformation and loading into a centralized database.
- Develop and test programs using SQL and PL-SQL for database applications.
- Evaluate the impact, challenges and risks of changes to existing dashboards or creation of new ones
- Develop and modify queries, programs and stored procedures to support standard and ad hoc reporting.
- Design, develop and maintain dashboards in support to systems and their processes
- Help coordinate User Acceptance Tests (UATs), applying feedback into reporting systems
- Liaison with ITE on matters of systems and dashboards maintenance and support
- Support organizational change through the research of new tools and technologies, analyzing pros and cons of their possible use on the improvement of reporting dashboards
- Create and maintain data flow processes in support to business needs of integrated reporting
- Abide by, expand and improve upon ITE’s published standards and guidelines, and best practices promoted by the industry
Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics
- Support the business by providing access to data intelligence for proper decision making
- Participate on meetings and discussions to support transformation
- Develop solutions for data visualization and statistical analysis
- Contribute with analysis to advance processes improvement projects and initiatives
Data Quality
- Perform analysis to identify data ownership, along with data production and consumption
- Perform analysis to profile the data, identifying and documenting patterns of errors, and provide recommendations for corrections
- Provide support to create data quality checkpoints and internal audit processes
- Help establish metrics to steer data quality initiatives
- Ensure that data collected is properly stored, organized and accessible, in order to be shared and analyzed.
- Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, developing and maintaining protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data.
- Develop and implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
- Assist on the preparation of data quality policies as required by business needs
General Tasks
- Develop and implement change management procedures for reporting systems
- Provide technical assistance to members of the team on reports and data extraction
- Prepare System and User documentations
- Assist on the preparation of training material, and deliver training on new systems and procedures
- Perform periodic and systematic analysis of live systems and provide recommendations
- Provide support to supervisor on meetings, presentations, documentation, and related tasks
What you'll need
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related fields.
- Experience: At least two years of relevant professional experience in Business Analytics, including design, development and data analysis, or the equivalent combination of education and experience. A master’s degree will be considered a plus.
- Languages:Excellent English and Spanish language proficiency, oral and written. Proficiency in French and/or Portuguese is beneficial.
Key skills
- Learn continuously.
- Collaborate and share knowledge.
- Focus on clients.
- Communicate and influence.
- Innovate and try new things.
Requirements
- Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries. We may offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your eligible dependents.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB Group.
Type of contract and duration
- Type of contract: Consultant Full Time.
- Length of contract: 18 months.
- Work Location: Washington DC, United States.
What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation packages.
- Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract + gender- neutral parental leave.
- Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
- Savings plan: The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
- We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
- Health and wellbeing:Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
- Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.
Our culture
At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.orgto request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
About IDB
We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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