Job Location: Washington, DC
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Background Of This Search
The Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector (CSD) advises Management on climate change and sustainable development issues and develops overall Bank policies, strategies, operational guidelines, and programs in these areas. It is also responsible for conducting relevant sector research, analytical work, best sector practices, and case studies on climate change and sustainability. It provides specialized technical sector support to climate change and sustainability-related operations and activities.
CSD conceptualizes, prepares, supports the execution of, and supervises the IDB’s operations related to forestry, biodiversity, agriculture development, tourism, sustainable cities, and climate change. Its additionality relies on the support it provides to operations in other sectors (IFD, INE, and SCL) to mainstream climate change and sustainability considerations to improve their effectiveness.
As climate change and sustainability have been identified as critical topics requiring a holistic approach, CSD provides innovative technical coordination of specialized initiatives and funds and disseminates cutting-edge research to support the integration of climate change and sustainability programs. It also fosters a network of cities to share knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices.
The Amazon Initiative or Amazon Coordination Unit (CSD/ACU) aims to promote socio-environmentally sustainable and inclusive development models for the Amazon region that benefit its diverse communities. It comprises Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela. The Initiative seeks to promote the Region’s recovery and climate action in line with the IDB Group’s Vision 2025. It mobilizes public and private resources to forge and implement sustainable and inclusive development models based on the Amazon region’s human capital, natural capital, and cultural heritage.
The Initiative offers IDB Group clients the IDB’s financial tools and technical assistance to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Amazon’s communities and their territories in four key areas: bioeconomy, sustainable agriculture, livestock and forestry management, human capital, and sustainable infrastructure and cities.
The Responsibilities Of The Amazon Unit Are
To ensure adequate implementation of the Initiative, an Amazon Unit was created within the IDB’s Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector, whose purpose is to coordinate the Initiative’s implementation efforts and its financial instruments with dedicated and specialized staff.
- Articulate the priorities and programming of each country with the four thematic lines of the Initiative and the different financing mechanisms.
- Ensure the IDB Group’s strategic and programming dialogues with the countries and between the Initiative and other Bank-managed or externally managed sustainability initiatives in the Amazon region.
- Lead the internal and external strategic coordination and implementation of the Initiative’s financial instruments in general.
The Team’s Mission
The objective of the consultancy is the compilation and creation of a database of operations related to the IDB Group’s pipeline, active and historical (since 2010) portfolios whose areas of impact and/or activity are included within the limits of the Amazon Initiative intervention area. The operations considered are those with the public and private sectors, as well as technical cooperation. This includes all IDB Group operations (IDB, IDB Lab and IDB Invest). This database will feed the subsequent analysis and visualization of the areas of impact and/or activity of these operations, their nature and scope.
What You’ll Do
- Design of database structures.
- Identify data sources.
- Completion of the database with data from the bank’s systems and other sources like dashboards, reports, etc.
- Additional data collection and database refining through consultations with the regional offices (operations managers, team leaders and specialists).
- Validation of the final database with the country offices.
- Support and transfer of knowledge to the consultant in charge of the subsequent georeferencing of the database.
- Develop solutions for data visualization and statistical analysis.
- Design, develop and maintain dashboards to support the departmental processes and decision making.
- Support development and maintenance of the CSD intranet and MyCSD website.
- Perform analysis to profile the data and identifying any data quality issues as well as providing recommendations for corrections.
What You’ll Need
- Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB Group.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related fields
- Experience: At least 2 years of experience in Business Analytics, including the design, development, and analysis of data. Experience as an operations analyst with knowledge and ability to manage the bank’s systems (will need access to the bank’s systems).
- Languages: Excellent command of Spanish and English (verbal and written). Knowledge of Portuguese is a plus.
Core And Technical Competencies
- Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks.
- Attention to details.
- Well-developed organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently, with initiative and responsibility as well as to be able to work with a team spirit.
- Excellent computer skills (MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point).
Opportunity Summary
- Type of contract: Full Time Consultant (CNS).
- Length of contract: 6.5 months.
- Location: IDB Headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
- Responsible Person: Sector Senior Specialist (CSD/ACU).
- Requirements: You must be a citizen of one of the IDB’s 48-member countries and have no family members currently working at the IDB Group.
Our culture: Our people are committed and passionate about improving lives in Latin-America and the Caribbean, and they get to do what they love in a diverse, collaborative, and stimulating work environment. We are the first Latin American and Caribbean development institution to be awarded the EDGE certification, recognizing our strong commitment to gender equality. As an employee you can be part of internal resource groups that connect our diverse community around common interests. Because we are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, we embrace diversity based on gender, age, education, national origin, ethnic origin, race, disability, sexual orientation, and religion. We encourage women, Afro-descendants, and persons of indigenous origins to apply.
About us: At the IDB, we are committed to improving lives. Since 1959, we have been a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. We do more than lending though. We partner with our 48-member countries to provide Latin America and the Caribbean with cutting-edge research about relevant development issues, policy advice to inform their decisions, and technical assistance to improve on the planning and execution of projects. For this, we need people who not only have the right skills, but also are passionate about improving lives.
COVID-19 considerations: The health and safety of our employees are our number one priority. As a condition of employment, IDB/IDB Invest requires all new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Our team in Human Resources carefully reviews all applications.
Additional Information
- External Opening Date: Jan 13, 2023
- External Closing Date: Jan 20, 2023
- External Contact Email: hrsc@iadb.org
- External Contact Name: HR Service Center
- Job Field: Technical Support
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