Operations Associate in the Country Department Andean Group (CAN)

at  InterAmerican Development Bank

OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE IN THE COUNTRY DEPARTMENT ANDEAN GROUP (CAN)

Location: Washington, D.C.
The IDB Group is a diverse, versatile, and passionate community that unites 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.

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.

• Provide technical support in developing and implementing VPC and CAN’s effectiveness agenda.
• Support the design, execution, and closure phases of IDB projects, emphasizing results achievement and measurement and effectiveness evaluations of IDB’s operations.
• Support different instances of project portfolio reviews, project start-ups, mid-term reviews, evaluations, etc., focusing on measurement results and objective achievement.
• Support the identification and systematization of lessons learned on project outcomes and impact, their strengths and weaknesses, and provide actionable recommendations for enhancing project effectiveness.
• Support the project selectivity efforts at the programming stage by systematizing information and identifying trends and lessons from a regional and Bank-wide perspective.
• Support VPC and CAN’s development of effectiveness-related knowledge agenda/products,
• Support the elaboration of Country Strategies and other key programmatic documents.
• Promote collaboration and maximize team collective intelligence (impacts, results, lessons learned, synergies, challenges).
• Participate in the project review process emphasizing effectiveness, evaluability, and sustainability.
• Analyze, monitor, and elaborate periodic reports on the loan portfolio’s effectiveness performance, making recommendations and alerting on risk to achieve results.
• Support the design and implementation of technological platforms to make better use of analytics on effectiveness and to disseminate IDB’s results.
• Provide support to CAN’s regional initiatives and other requirements.
• Participate in meetings regarding coordination with other VPC departments, VPS, and SPD on issues related to effectiveness.
• Participate in the review process of project completion reports (PCRs) and other relevant operational documents and support the dissemination of operational results, lessons learned, and best practices for use in future programs.