Post of duty: Headquarters - 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.

What you’ll do

You will support the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in its development of state-of-the-art tools to improve the analysis and elimination of poverty in the region, as well as specifically to ensure that its projects are directly benefiting the poor. You will have the opportunity to develop tools that apply across the range of areas of work at the IDB (including but not limited to education, health, agriculture, transportation, and institutions). You will be based on the IDB’s Social Sector, but your work will directly influence the IDB more broadly.

In this role you will:

  1. Expand and improve existing guidance to identify the level of poverty targeting of IDB projects.
  2. Develop guidelines for how to apply across different types of projects and in different sectors.
  3. Propose and prepare tools using poverty maps, household surveys, and other resources to facilitate the identification of the poverty status of likely beneficiaries of different types of IDB projects.
  4. Provide guidance to sectors as they seek to apply guidelines and update guidelines.
  5. Gather pilot data from the first round of projects that see to measure the poverty status of project beneficiaries and identify weaknesses and potential improvements in measurement.
  6. Organize and conduct meetings and strategic conversations with other organizations analyzing poverty in the region (such as the World Bank) to share tools.

    What you'll need

    • Education: At least a master’s degree in public policy, social sciences or economics. PhD preferred.
    • Experience: At least 10 years of relevant and substantive experience in international and foreign policy, experience working in international organizations with a focus on poverty, preferably in Latin America and the Caribbean. The candidate is expected also to have a proven track record of publications related to poverty analysis.
    • 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

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