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
- Leading, coordinating, and monitoring the IDB Group’s Institutional Strategy.
- Leading the implementation of the IDB’s Development Effectiveness Framework.
- Assess the evaluability and development effectiveness of IDB operations.
- Monitoring the performance of the IDB’s portfolio.
- Designing and reviewing the IDB’s lending instruments.
- Leading project capacity-building related to development effectiveness.
- Conducting strategic, corporate, and operational research.
- Gathering, analyzing, and reporting data to recommend best practices or new courses of action to improve the IDB’s overall performance and transparency.
What you’ll do
- Prepare data and conduct statistical analysis as part of evaluation and research teams, with a focus on massive volumes of data in structured and unstructured formats.
- Prepare code and provide support to the processing of Big Data projects, in particular visualization and dashboard building.
- Participate in data collection activities including data scrapping, preparation of questionnaires, manuals, field work, data documentation, and other tasks as required.
- Assist in the preparation of inputs for research transparency and credibility, including data de-identification, study registration, and information needed for institutional review boards.
The completion of these tasks will require access to confidential data. The consultant will be required to treat all information and data as confidential. A non-disclosure agreement may be required to be signed as part of the requirements of this consultancy.
What you'll need
- Education: Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field.
- Experience: 5 years or more of general experience, 2 years of experience as data scientist and advanced knowledge of statistical programming languages such as SQL, Python, R or Stata. Experience working with data visualization and dashboard building is highly desired.
- Languages: Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required.
- 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: 24 months (with possible extension up to 36 months).
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.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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