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