Post of Duty: Washington, United States.
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 Social Sector (SCL) is a multidisciplinary team convinced that investing in people is the way to improve lives and overcome the development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Jointly with the countries in the region, the Social Sector formulates public policy solutions to reduce poverty and improve the delivery of education, work, social protection, and health services. The objective is to advance a more productive region, with equal opportunities for men and women, and greater inclusion of the most vulnerable groups.
The IDB Group helps Latin American and Caribbean countries promote skills development and lifelong learning as a strategy to ensure that citizens can contribute productively to society, improve their well-being, and be good citizens. To this end, it works with the countries of the region in five lines of action:
ensure that people have equitable access to relevant, high-quality learning opportunities throughout their lives. strengthen quality and relevance assurance mechanisms. consolidate and develop better financing and co-financing mechanisms to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and coverage of skills development opportunities. take advantage of the use of technology to increase equity and access to skills development opportunities and improve the efficiency of skills development systems; and actively promote the generation and use of evidence to inform decisions about skills development.
We are looking for an education consultant. As an education consultant, you will support the development of inventory of 21st century skills measurement instruments.
You will work in the EDU part of the Social Sector department. This team supports education systems of Latin America and the Caribbean countries to contribute for making them successful in promoting effective teaching and learning among all children and youth. The IDB's private sector window also finances projects to expand educational opportunities for low-income students.
The consultancy will be focusing on developing the inventory of 21st-century skills measurement instruments to be published on the CLIC (Connect without Limits: Invent Yourself, and Get Certified) online platform. CLIC is a toolkit that assesses and certifies transversal 21st century skills to empower users to effectively showcase a digital portfolio of skills. The consultant will conduct exhaustive research on the eleven 21st century skills defined by IDB, and draft inventory of measurement instruments of each skill. Eleven 21st century skills identified by IDB are followings: mindfulness, empathy and compassion, self-efficacy/self-determination, problem solving, critical thinking, goal orientation and goal completion, resilience/stress resistance, self-awareness, purposefulness, and self-regulation/self-control/emotion regulation, and digital skills.
What you’ll do:
Support the development of an inventory of eleven skills among 21st century skills measurement instruments.
Reviewing the IDB internal knowledge products on the aforementioned eleven skills and existing systemic review and/or academic literature. Researching the available measurement instruments for eleven skills to publish on the CLIC platform. Development of an inventory, containing all pertinent data and actual examples (copies) of measurement instruments, so that it can be used as a decision-making tool in the future for the most appropriate instrument for each skill. The data to be collected on each instrument should be part of the work plan to be discussed with the IDB team. Providing recommendations for the most suitable instrument for the skill and including rankings among instruments. With respect to the content of third parties that will be published on the CLIC platform, creating a document that would identify any restrictions (i) to the publication by the Bank of such contents on the CLIC platform; and (iii) to the Bank sublicensing such content to the users of the CLIC platform. Reviewing and finalizing the already existing two-pagers for each eleven 21st century skills.
Deliverables and Payments Timeline:
Deliverable
Percentage
#1 Submission of Work plan
10%
#2 Submission of an inventory, recommendation & ranking of measurement instruments, and finalizing two-pagers for first set of three skills
25%
#3 Submission of an inventory, recommendation & ranking of measurement instruments, and finalizing two-pagers for second set of four skill
30%
#4 Submission of an inventory, recommendation & ranking of measurement instruments, and finalizing two-pagers for remainder of four skills
35%
What you'll need:
Education: Master's degree, or equivalent in Education, Psychology, Social Sciences, Public health, or similar. Candidates currently enrolled in doctoral program or holding doctoral Degree will be preferred. Experience: At least 5 years but less than 10 years of relevant experience in Education and more particularly in analysis of psychometrics and educational psychology. Languages: Proficiency in English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of Spanish is preferable.
Key skills:
Learn continuously. Collaborate and share knowledge. Focus on clients. Communicate and influence. Innovate and try new things. Demonstrated experience in evaluating educational measurements, and experience on the use of psychometrics. Strong hand in writing systemic review and academic researching skills in the field of Education.
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: Products and External Services Consultant (PEC), Lump Sum. Length of contract: 4 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.