Senior Specialist/Specialist – Housing and Urban Development (Development Effectiveness)  

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, and rewarding environment.

As part of IDB’s commitments to achieving impact and scale through its operations, the Vice Presidency for Sectors and Knowledge (VPS/VPS), will be rolling out at the sector level a new Development Effectiveness Framework (DEF). This will entail the implementation on development effectiveness practices for project preparation, execution, supervision, and monitoring and evaluation, while improving capabilities for managing portfolios based on results; improving development effectiveness capacities in the division; and supporting the generation and use of knowledge, data and lessons learned to enhance development effectiveness of the Bank´s operations.

About this position

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic individual to help improve impact in HUD’s operations, including their relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability through improved design, implementation, and evaluation. 

The Housing and Urban Development Division (HUD), part of the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector (CSD), provides strategic guidance and analytical and operational support to the institution and its clients in city and territorial planning, sustainable and resilient urban development, and housing.

What you’ll do 

You will bring innovative knowledge in the areas of development effectiveness and project economics analysis, and apply your experience to:

• Support the rolling out of the new Bank’s Development Effectiveness Policy Framework and, impact monitoring tools (e.g.  sgDelta), ensuring compliance within HUD; 

• Support improvement of HUD’s project performance throughout the project cycle in line with and beyond the existing Action Plan, finding opportunities and accompanying team leaders at different stages from design, through implementation, to project closing;

• Support, guide, and provide to the team leaders support in the preparation of key project approval documentation associated with development effectiveness, including but not limited theory of change, logical framework, results matrix, development effectiveness matrix or sgDelta, and/or monitoring and evaluation plan. 

• Support the preparation of economic analyses, ensuring the use of the best available information, appropriate choice of methods, and identification of main assumption. 

• Support the curation of operational lessons at the sector and foster its adoption in the design and execution of project in the HUD portfolio.

• Support the teams in the preparation of analytical knowledge products, including impact evaluations, and their dissemination.  

What you’ll need

Education: Master’s degree or equivalent, in economics, evaluation or a related field relevant to this position.

Experience: At least six years of relevant professional and international experience in economic analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and development effectiveness. Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, and team skills with the ability to find balanced, pragmatic, and implementable solutions in a multi-disciplinary context. Specific experience managing strategic alliances (with donors, private sector, and international organizations) and policy dialogue with governments is a plus

Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese would be a plus. 

Key Skills

• Learn continuously  
• Collaborate and share knowledge  
• Focus on clients  
• Communicate and influence  
• Innovate and try new things   

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

International 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 which covers medical, dental, vision, preventive care, and prescription drugs.

• Pension plan: defined benefit pension plan that provides financial security and support employees in planning for their future.

• We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family, when it applies. 

• 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.

• Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, Spouse Career Program, and others

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 [email protected]  to request reasonable accommodations to complete this application.

Our Human Resources Team reviews every application carefully.   

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

The Inter-American Development Bank is devoted to improving lives. Established in 1959, the IDB is a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB also conducts ground breaking research and provides policy advice, technical assistance and training to public and private sector clients throughout the region. 

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