Communications Senior Associate

We are looking for a dynamic communications professional to work on biodiversity, climate change and sustainability initiatives in the Climate Change Division (CSC) division. In this position, you will collaborate with a diverse team to manage knowledge and support communications for IDB personnel, partners, and clients across Latin America. You will facilitate and help coordinate research, data collection, and analysis to identify key challenges, disseminate information, and contribute to informed decision-making and effective climate action in the region. This position reports to the division chief of the climate change division within the vice presidency of sectors and knowledge.

You will work closely with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) team in the concessional finance group to enhance communications and knowledge management. The IDB is an accredited agency of the GEF, with full and direct access to their funds, engaging in the preparation and execution of grant and non-grant projects.

You will work in the SC Division, which is part of the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector (CSD) Department. This team is responsible for supporting government policies and plans on climate change and sustainability. It provides technical advice and concessional financing and helps mobilize private financing to implement these policies and plans. In addition, it provides technical advisory services to integrate climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability into IDB policies, technical cooperation, and investment loans.

What you will do:

Working closely with the GEF and concessional finance team, you will primarily:

• Plan, support, and supervise the generation of knowledge products (written and audiovisual), ensuring the products’ quality (content and graphic image) before being distributed or communicated massively. In coordination with the division chief, formulate and ensure implementation of the division’s annual knowledge agenda.
• Develop, implement, and lead CCS’s knowledge and external and internal communication strategy in coordination with the knowledge coordinator and the Knowledge, Innovation, and Communication Sector (KIC) and the sector manager’s office.
• Help coordinate, facilitate, and conduct research in climate change, identifying challenges and issues applying theoretical and/or empirical analysis, and developing policy recommendations for advancing the climate agenda in LAC.
• Actively foster knowledge networks within the IDB, with other development partners, and with research organizations, universities, and public sector institutions inside and outside the region promoting cooperative research initiatives.
• Ensure the dissemination of knowledge and communications materials with specific reference to the work of the GEF and the Green Climate Fund, NDC-Accelerator fund, Natural Capital Lab fund, French Natural Capital Trust Fund, and UK BLU fund.
• Promote the internal and external sharing of knowledge gained from IDB’s GEF projects and facilitate the access of IDB project teams to knowledge generated and disseminated by the GEF and other fund manage by the division.
• Identify and assess skills and knowledge gaps to design training strategies and programs. Coordinate, design, and implement internal training and capacity-building activities according to the knowledge needs of the CCS Division in coordination with KIC.
• Maintain and update the climate change division’s knowledge repository, ensuring information is correctly categorized, tagged, and easily retrievable.

What you will need

• Education: master’s degree (or equivalent advanced degree) in Economics, Environmental/Climate science, Sustainability, knowledge management, information science, communications, or similar fields.
• Experience: At least 3 years of progressive experience leading knowledge initiatives.
• As part of your application please include at least 2 examples of communication projects you have produced (e.g. blog, campaigns). This should be included as one separate file. If your work sample is a live page, add the link(s) to the file.
• Languages:  Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required.

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