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:
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.
You will support the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in enhancing poverty targeting and measurement in projects across Latin America and the Caribbean. Working with the Poverty Expert Consultant, you will contribute to developing state-of-the-art tools and methodologies to improve the analysis and elimination of poverty in the region. Your work will help ensure that IDB projects (across sectors such as education, health, agriculture, transportation, and institutions) are effectively targeted to benefit the most vulnerable, aligning with IDBโs new Institutional Strategy. You will be based on the IDBโs Social Sector, but your work will directly influence the IDB more broadly
What youโll do:
The selected candidate will implement the following activities:
- Contribute to refining and expanding guidance to assess the poverty targeting of IDB projects, creating frameworks that can be applied for diverse project types across various sectors
- Collaborate on the creation and adaptation of tools to identify poverty status of likely beneficiaries such as poverty maps and household surveys and other resources
- Support data collection in pilot project rounds, assessing poverty status of beneficiaries to identify opportunities for improvement in measurement methods
- Develop and implement dissemination activities to train teams across the IDB on the use of poverty measurement tools, ensuring wide-scale adoption.
- Provide support in representing the poverty measurement work at high-level meetings and strategic conversations with other organizations analyzing poverty in the region (i.e. the World Bank)
What you'll need:
- Education: At least a Masterโs degree (PhD preferred) in economics, development studies, econometrics, social sciences or any other related field.
- Experience: At least 10 years of relevant and substantive experience in poverty analysis, international development, or social policy, with strong focus on poverty reduction strategies and targeting, preferably in Latin America and the Caribbean. The candidate is expected also to have a proven track record of publications related to poverty analysis. Knowledge of statistical packages like SPSS, STATA and R is an asset.
- 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 employeeโs 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: โโโโโโโThe 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.