Back Green Mainstreaming Consultant for The Connectivity Markets and Finance Division (IFD/CMF)

Post of duty: Headquarters – 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 Green Mainstreaming Consultant. As Green Mainstreaming Consultant, you will provide public development banks (PDB) with high-quality technical assistance and advisory services to implement green strategies, improve project design and execution, enhance skills, and strengthen their institutional capacity to manage environmental and social risks, climate-related risks and support their alignment to the Paris Agreement.

You will also provide high-quality support to the IFD/CMF Operations Teams in ensuring that projects are prepared, implemented, and completed to the required IDB standards, and that documents required for each of the stages of the IDB project cycle incorporate the Bank’s policy requirements and recommendations related to the Environmental and Social Policy Framework, Paris Alignment Implementation Approach, climate, and green finance methodologies. Finally, conduct research and develop knowledge products to promote dialogue, best practices via regional knowledge exchange, mentoring, and initiatives on PA alignment, climate, and socioenvironmental risk management.

You will work in The Connectivity Markets and Finance (IFD/CMF) Division. This team is responsible for assists member countries to overcome the financing barriers that limit their productive development. Areas of work include financial inclusion, financial and fiscal risk management, financial transparency, housing finance, public debt management, green finance, among others. IFD/CMF also structures financial solutions that require the design of tailored socio-environmental risk management systems to comply with the Bank's Safeguards.

What you’ll do:

• Improve project design and execution, enhance skills, and strengthen their institutional capacity to manage environmental and social risks, climate-related risks and support their alignment to the Paris Agreement.
• Prepare of PA-aligned sustainable finance strategies for PDBs, including institutional commitments and target-setting for portfolio decarbonization and monitoring.
• Coordinate trainings and workgroups comprised by PDB to strengthen their PA alignment pathway and exchange experience and lessons learned.
• Diagnose, prioritize, budget, and set milestones of technical assistance for PDB to integrate climate and socio-environmental risks in their decision-making processes,
• Incentive green lending and achieve significant improvement of the respective PDB towards PA alignment.
• Pilot and implement tools for enabling PDB to assess the potential exposure of their portfolios and support the integration of climate-related risks into their risk management strategy.
• Support in the preparation, execution, and supervision of financial intermediation operations.
• Review of relevant documents at various stages of the project cycle to ensure that these are adequate and compliant of Bank’s policies and methodologies.
• Prepare Environmental and Social assessments/analysis of new operations with low and medium socio-environmental risk.
• Design and implementation of mechanisms that contribute to the dissemination, consultation, and participation of interested parties, especially indigenous populations of the region for the operations of the Division that require it.
• Supervise the portfolio operations performance.
• Prepare the necessary documents in the Bank's project cycle.
• Develop additional environmental and social studies to address specific gaps in the environmental and social documentation, e.g. on issues related to environment, health, and safety management, impacts on biodiversity, disaster risk management, involuntary resettlement, indigenous peoples, and gender.
• Support the design of new tools and internal processes to comply with the Bank's policies and methodologies and the necessary internal training.
• Prepare knowledge products around E&S risk management in the financial sector.
• Advise and mainstream within the IFD/CMF Division the Bank’s strategic agenda on socioenvironmental and climate matters.
• Other related activities as established by the consultancy coordinator.

  What you'll need

  • Education: Master’s Degree (or equivalent advanced degree) in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Business Administration, or related field.
  • Experience: At least 5 years of experience in management of environmental and/or social risks, socio-environmental evaluation of financial intermediation operations for multilateral institutions; experience in working with stakeholders in development projects in the region, especially indigenous communities; and design and implementation of environmental, social, and health and safety management systems for financial institutions. It is ideal to have professional experience in the financial sector in the region and / or have knowledge and experience with the safeguards of the IDB, the Equator Principles, or the safeguards of another multilateral institution.
  • Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.

    Key skills:

    • 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: 12 months.
        • Work Location: On site.

          What we offer

          The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:

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        • 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: ​​​​​​​The 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.

          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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        • External Opening Date: Mar 25, 2024
        • External Closing Date: Apr 2, 2024