Development Effectiveness Specialist

We improve lives

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 an enthusiastic, curious, and knowledgeable professional to join our Regional Departments, within the Vice-presidency for Countries and Regional Integration, to support the advancing of a results-based culture grounded in empirical evidence and portfolio management based on results.

As a Development Effectiveness Specialist, you will work in a Country Office under the leadership of the Regional Development Effectiveness Advisor, alongside teams from throughout your Country Department to support quality review, monitoring, and evaluation activities, aimed at promoting greater effectiveness outcomes in Bank-supported lending and non-lending activities. 

Location

Post of Duty Station: To be determined within the Latin American and Caribbean Region.

What you’ll do

• Review and ensure high-quality evaluability standards in key Bank documents, such as loan proposals monitoring and evaluation reports, and country strategies, from the perspective of achieving development results.
• Provide guidance to country teams on development effectiveness, including interventions’ theory of change, results matrix, monitoring and evaluation framework, selection of indicators based on country context, as well as country strategies, programming and portfolio performance.
• Support country teams in undertaking results-based programming and portfolios exercises and country strategies self-evaluations.
• Support project performance data management and application to improving programs and projects.
• Participate in and lead training for internal and external audiences on development effectiveness topics, including the Bank’s tools, analytic methods, monitoring and evaluations and emerging topics.
• Contribute to the generation of operational knowledge, including by collecting and analyzing data on portfolio implementation and project effectiveness in selected countries.
• Support the systematization of lessons learned in terms of project and country strategy results and facilitate their dissemination and integration in operational documents.
• Collaborate on specialized analyses or background studies on areas of strategic importance for the Country Departments in management for results, elaborating and disseminating technical notes or guidelines.
• Contribute to communication and dissemination activities, including preparing high-quality results reports and policy briefs.

What you'll need

Education: Master’s degree in economics, Public Policy, Public Administration, Project Management, or a similarly relevant field.

Experience: At least five years of relevant experience in portfolio management, project design, monitoring and evaluation, and development economics. Direct experience with project implementation involving dialogue with government is a plus.

Languages: Fluency in English is required.  Knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese or French is highly desirable.

Requirements

Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries. We may offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your eligible dependents.

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

National staff contract, 36 months initially, renewable upon mutual agreement. 

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 package. 
• Leaves and vacations: 24 days of paid time off + 8 personal days + sick leave + gender-neutral parental leave. 
• Health Insurance: IDB Group provides employees and eligible dependents with a robust medical benefits program that covers medical, dental, vision, preventive care, and prescription drugs. 
• Pension plan: defined benefit pension plan that provides financial security and supports employees in planning for their future. 
• Hybrid and flexible work schedules. 
• Health and wellbeing:  Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for employees. 
• Development support: We offer tools to boost your professional profile such as mentoring, 1:1 professional counseling, training, and learning opportunities, language classes, mobility options, among others. 

Our culture

At the IDB, we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work while finding their purpose. Our people consistently strive for excellence, and we recognize and celebrate the impact of their contributions.

In our efforts to drive innovation, we intentionally include all voices, cultivate a sense of belonging and champion fairness. We welcome individuals from underrepresented groups to join us and share their unique perspectives.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job interview process. If you require an accommodation to complete this application, please email us