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Form of workPost of duty: Headquarters - 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
The new Institutional Strategy of the IDB Group renews its focus on the eradication of extreme poverty and the reduction of poverty overall, and the accompanying Impact Framework seeks to ensure that a significant proportion of IDB projects directly benefit populations in poverty. To achieve this, the IDBG will be improving its tools to measure the poverty focus of its projects. This includes refining guidelines for projects across different sectors to measure their degree of poverty targeting and developing complementary tools (e.g., poverty maps and survey analysis) to assist teams around the IDB in achieving a high degree of poverty targeting.
What you’ll do
You will support the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in its development of state-of-the-art tools to improve the analysis and elimination of poverty in the region, as well as specifically to ensure that its projects are directly benefiting the poor. You will have the opportunity to develop tools that apply across the range of areas of work at the IDB (including but not limited to education, health, agriculture, transportation, and institutions). You will be based on the IDB’s Social Sector, but your work will directly influence the IDB more broadly.
In this role you will:
- Expand and improve existing guidance to identify the level of poverty targeting of IDB projects.
- Develop guidelines for how to apply across different types of projects and in different sectors.
- Propose and prepare tools using poverty maps, household surveys, and other resources to facilitate the identification of the poverty status of likely beneficiaries of different types of IDB projects.
- Provide guidance to sectors as they seek to apply guidelines and update guidelines.
- Gather pilot data from the first round of projects that see to measure the poverty status of project beneficiaries and identify weaknesses and potential improvements in measurement.
- Organize and conduct meetings and strategic conversations with other organizations analyzing poverty in the region (such as the World Bank) to share tools.
What you'll need
- Education: At least a master’s degree in public policy, social sciences or economics. PhD preferred.
- Experience: At least 10 years of relevant and substantive experience in international and foreign policy, experience working in international organizations with a focus on poverty, preferably in Latin America and the Caribbean. The candidate is expected also to have a proven track record of publications related to poverty analysis.
- Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.
Key skills
- Ability to perform poverty and economic analysis.
- Ability to analyze development projects.
- 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.
- 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.
Type of contract and duration
- Type of contract: International Consultant Full-Time.
- Length of contract: 6 months.
- Work Location: On site.
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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