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 IDB’s new Institutional Strategy. You will be based on the IDB’s Social Sector, but your work will directly influence the IDB more broadly

What you’ll 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:

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