PEC Consultant for the Coordination of Learning Products at the Operations Learning Program of BID Academy

Post of Duty: 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

We are looking for a strategic and highly motivated professional with experience designing, producing, delivering, and evaluating learning products to join our team as a PEC Consultant for the Coordination of Learning products at the Operations Learning Program (OLP).

As PEC Consultant, you will coordinate the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of learning products, ensuring that they align with the organization’s 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 Bank’s 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 you’ll do

· Coordinate design, development, implementation, and evaluation of knowledge and learning projects. It includes administrative and logistical aspects of the production and delivery of project activities.

· Support conceptualization, preparation, and implementation of learning programs.

· Support needs assessments, gap identification, and prioritization of learning needs.

· Support innovative approaches to increase effectiveness and continuous improvement.

· Support the creation of learning objectives, modular structures, activities, and resources.

· Support the creation of strategies for each course's formative and summative assessment, including designing open-response assessments and corresponding rubrics.

· Coordinate production of training resources, such as videos, readings, case studies, practical exercises, guidelines, and rubrics.

· Ensure the quality of course resources, such as their proper functioning and display, spell checking, and consistency with the content approved by the SME.

· Support that courses are aligned with Quality Matters (QM) standards (i.e., ensure the alignment of learning objectives, contents, activities, and assessments).

· Integrate learning resources to the corresponding LMS platform.

· Prepare and analyze monitoring and evaluation reports.

· Other relative activities to achieve the consult goals.

Deliverables and Payments Timeline

Solid reports in which the following is observed for each of the coordinated learning products:

· Structured general results

· Evaluation of the performance of the participants (if applicable)

· Incidents presented by the participants (if applicable)

· Challenges & recommendations to improve the performance and impact.

Deliverable #

Percentage

Planned Date to Submit

First report

20%

30th September, 2023

Second report

20%

30th October, 2023

Third report

20%

30th November, 2023

Fourth report

20%

28th February, 2024

Fifth report

20%

30th April, 2024

What you'll need

· Education: Bachelor’s degree in pedagogy, education, psychology, communications, industrial engineer or related fields. Candidates with a Master, certification in e-learning will be considered positively.

· Experience: At least two (2) years of experience supporting learning products in any modality of delivery. 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

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