Back Reporting and Technical Support to Green Finance Programs Consultant

Post of duty: Washington D.C Headquarters.

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.

Established in 1959, the Inter-American Development Bank (“IDB” or “Bank”) is the main source of financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It provides loans, grants, guarantees, policy advice and technical assistance to the public and private sectors of its borrowing countries.

Government capacities to efficiently plan, develop needed financial incentives and access, as well as absorb and coordinate international climate finance have been identified as key elements for enhancing countries’ effectiveness in responding to climate change and promote sustainability and low carbon development. With their capacity to promote necessary financial incentives, manage national funds, leverage international and donor resources and increase its impact and effectiveness through their field knowledge and expertise as well as develop innovative financing schemes, financial intermediates, financial institutions (FIs), national development banks (NDBs) and other key players in domestic capital markets could play a critical role in promoting sustainability and climate finance mitigation and in particular environmental and social risks management.

The Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division (IFD/CMF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) seeks to scale up IDB’s current activities to promote green finance. Through Project Operations and Technical Cooperation programs, IFD/CMF aims to support the scaling up of private sector low carbon and resilient investments and by empowering local financial and capital market players to issue thematic bonds and include Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Climate related information and coordinate and support the structuring of innovative green financing strategies in particular in supporting the implementation of a portfolio activities being executed by the IDB across the Latin American and the Caribbean Region.

About this position

We are looking for a professional with expertise on green finance to support the execution of such financing projects and technical assistance programs as well as participate in the development of new projects related to green finance, and/or sustainable debt, greening NDBs, especially climate risk management, and coordinating with international donors to support these activities. The consultant would also be responsible to ensure that all the support information, including implementation reporting and knowledge materials developed, would be maintained within IDB information systems, information systems from beneficiary clients.

You will work in Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division part of Institutions for Development department (IFD). This team is responsible for address and support member countries in inclusive and environmentally sustainable productive development. The CMF Division also 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.

What you’ll do:

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  Manage day to day operations of several green finance related programs and operations including coordination, budgeting, planning and preparation of business plans and technical cooperation documents, contracting and coordination of consultancies, constant monitoring, and reporting of outputs, planning and execution of knowledge dissemination activities, preparation of progress reports and follow up with donors.

• Directly support clients in the implementation of IDB programs, ensuring clients have record keeping systems, and that planned activities are timely executed, as well as promoting stakeholder consultation, workflow and consultant management, and product review.
• Support CMF and Institutions for Development (IFD) outreach efforts with international donors to manage relationships, prepare new proposals for projects, and provide information for monitoring and portfolio review. The support will include the identification of potential new funding sources and the support to the development of project proposals.
• Review and coordinate feedback on products and background materials developed by other consultants and consultancy firms in support to clients to ensure quality of outputs before delivery. Topics may cover climate risks management, Paris Alignment working group, and green and sustainable bond markets assessments.
• Assist the team in the identification of potential new ideas and projects, clients within the countries that IDB work with and in the client portfolio review process.
• Collect data, perform desk research, and develop working documents for IDB and IDB clients’ internal use.
• Support the preparation of knowledge products and review and provide inputs to knowledge dissemination tools.
• Support the organization of event dialogues, preparing presentations and draft agendas, draft reports and background papers.
• Assist in the project management of the Green Coalition.

  What you’ll need:

  • Education: Master’s degree in environmental sciences, climate or a related discipline.
  • Experience: At least 5 years of relevant working experience with project management and green finance, financial and capital markets, and project management, of which 4 years should have been in an international environment, preferably in Latin American and the Caribbean
  • Languages: Fluency in Japanese and English or Spanish, a third IDB Official language is desirable.

    Key skills:

    • Relevant work experience in the developing of green finance projects.
    • Experience with support to financial institutions in integrating climate and green financing strategies in their business. Ideally directly with national development banks.
    • Excellent drafting ability and communication skills, both written and oral; proven ability to communicate complex concepts and prepare reports that are clear, concise, and meaningful to different audiences.
    • Good team player, self-starter, has ability to work under minimum supervision and maintain good relationships.

      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: 24 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:

          • 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.

            Consultant Part-Time

            • A competitive compensation packages.
            • A flexible way of working. You will be evaluated by deliverable.

              
              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.