Post of duty: Headquarters โ Washington, DC, 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:
We are looking for a strategic and highly motivated professional with experience in designing, producing, delivering, and evaluating learning products to join our team as an Instructional Designer PEC Consultant at the Operations Learning Program (OLP).
As PEC Consultant, you will work designing, producing, delivering, and evaluating learning products, ensuring that they align with the organizationโs strategic goals and meet the needs of the target audience. It includes administrative and logistical aspects of the production and delivery of project activities.
You will work in the Operations Learning Program (OLP), part of the Knowledge and Learning Division (KLD/SDI). This team is responsible for ensuring access to relevant and high-quality knowledge and technical learning to support corporate processes and speed up the preparation and execution of the Bankโs operational program. The Inter-American Institute for Economic and Social Development (INDES) is responsible for the learning area within this division. The INDES seeks to strengthen technical capabilities in the Region to address development challenges successfully.
What youโll do:
- Support conceptualization, preparation, and implementation of learning programs.
- Support need assessments, gap identification, and prioritization of needs related to knowledge and learning.
- Propose learning objectives for courses and modules.
- Design the modular structure of each course and the type, sequence, and duration of learning resources and activities.
- Propose strategies for each course's formative and summative assessment, including designing open-response assessments and corresponding rubrics.
- Ensure the pedagogical quality of each of the courses' training resources and, in general, any instructional materials needed to create a practical learning experience, such as readings, case studies, practical exercises, guidelines, and rubrics.
- Ensure that courses are aligned with Quality Matters (QM) standards (i.e., ensure the alignment of learning objectives, contents, activities, and assessments).
- Propose activities for departments across the organization and monitor the results.
- Coordinate technical and administrative/logistical aspects of the production or delivery of knowledge and learning activities.
- Propose best practices in instructional design and provide innovative approaches to ensure the program's continuous improvement.
- Other relative activities to achieve the consult goals.
Deliverables and Payments Timeline:
- Developing entire courses or adapting current courses depending on the audience. This includes the analysis and implementation of internal reviews.
- Payments will be made upon the supervisorโs approval of each developed or adapted course. The maximum contract days for this consultancy is 128 days.
What you'll need:
- Education: Bachelorโs degree in pedagogy, education, psychology, or related fields. Candidates with a Master, certification in e-learning will be considered positively.
- Experience: You must have at least two (2) years of experience as an instructional designer. Experience in remote education aimed at public or private sector officials will be considered positively.
- Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.
Key skills:
- Service-oriented attitude.
- Teamwork and communications skills.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving.
- Proactivity, agility, organization, and results orientation.
- Dynamism, creativity, flexibility, and meeting deadlines.
- Project management skills.
- Proven facilitation skills are a plus.
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), PEC Retainer
- Length of contract: 128 days in a period of 8 months.
- Work Location: Remote.
What we offer:
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employeeโs life. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation package.
- A flexible way of working. You will be evaluated by deliverable.
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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Additional Information - External Opening Date: Mar 5, 2024