AddressPost of duty: Remote Local
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
We are looking for a passionate, detail-oriented and organized professional with outstanding communication and negotiation skills and capable of handling multiple streams of work with efficiency. As Project Manager, you will (main tasks in the context of the team).
You will work in the Business Partners for Sectors team part of IT department. This team is responsible for serving as the strategic interface with the business Departments and Offices for the purpose of technology delivery, solution discovery, service delivery reviews, and relationship management.
What you’ll do:
Work in the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of program work streams.
- Contribute to stakeholder alignment.
- Organize the overall project and establish clear roles and responsibilities for each work stream and activity in the plan.
- Analyze project plans to identify and mitigate risks and minimize potential roadblocks.
- Collaborate with working groups and stakeholders to create and maintain a detailed project plan.
- Schedule and prepare meeting materials for project team meetings, including kickoff, testing kick-off and sign-off, go/no-go, post-mortem, etc.
- Facilitate meetings, capturing and tracking issues reported during all phases of the project.
- Drives assigned team actions to resolution by working with action owners.
- Monitor project risks and develop mitigation strategies to meet the program goals and objectives.
- Facilitate the creation of presentations and training events to educate stakeholders on project solutions, strategies, purposes, plans and status.
- Close the program and report overall level of success to sponsors and stakeholders, and identifies lessons learned for continuous improvement.
- Develops and implement a communication plan for the team’s initiatives.
- Assist the Capital Project team in (i) Creating a work plan for the projects in scope. (ii) Establishing clear roles and responsibilities in each plan. (iii) Supervising the implementation of each project in scope. (iv) Coordinating the Capital Project monthly status report. (v) Present the project status to stakeholders.
What you'll need
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and a Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.
- Experience: Minimum of two years of relevant professional experience in Project Management or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.
Key skills:
- Learn continuously.
- Collaborate and share knowledge.
- Focus on clients.
- Communicate and influence.
- Innovate and try new things.
Requirements:
- Citizenship[1]: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries with residency or legal permit to work in selected countries(see foot note for selected countries)
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
- Remote Modality:The selected candidate will not provide services from the Bank’s office and will not be provided a physical space on the premises of the Bank’s Country Office. The candidate selected will be responsible for setting up the space, and for having the equipment, internet, and phone accesses to accomplish these TORs, outside the Bank’s office. Access to the Bank’s systems will be arranged in coordination with the Bank.
Type of contract and duration:
- Type of contract: National Consultant (National Remote Modality)
- Length of contract: 12 months.
- Work Location: Remote
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 package.
- Leave 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.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Health and wellbeing:Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
- Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
Our cultureAt 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.org to 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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[1]For National Remote Consultant: Argentina, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay.
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