Senior Associate or Specialist in Social Protection and Labor Markets

What you’ll do

• Engage in policy dialogue with government authorities and development partners based on your solid validated knowledge of the sector, development challenges of client countries, and IDB policies, strategies, and guidelines.
• Contribute (with increasing leadership responsibilities) to the origination, conceptualization, and preparation of SPL operations in Haiti with all relevant parties (executing agencies, fiduciary specialists, environmental specialists, among others) and respective authorities.
• Lead or participate in coordination with all relevant parties, and the SPL team, the supervision of SPL operations in Haiti for which the IDB has approved financing, including their execution, monitoring and evaluation of operations. This includes identifying and resolving execution issues, with support from fiduciary teams from the Country Office.
• Participate (with increasing leadership responsibilities) in the origination, preparation and execution of the activities included in the SPL regional agenda, including economic/sector knowledge generation and dissemination, learning, training and technical assistance activities, to enhance the relevance of the IDB to borrowing countries and the region.
• Lead or collaborate in the preparation, submission, processing and negotiation of operational and non-operational documents for approval by various levels of management and the Bank's Board of Directors in accordance with established procedures.
• Apply innovative economic and/or sector analytic work to support the preparation of country, sector and regional strategies, loan operations and technical assistance programs.
• Transfer technical and operational knowledge to entities in charge of the execution of IDB financed operations.
• Work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, coordinating activities within SPL team, in addition to supporting the activities of the IDB Invest and IDB Lab related to the SPL agenda
• Build strategic networks and coordinate activities with other multilateral and bilateral institutions to promote coordination and cooperation initiatives.
• Plan properly, participate in project teams with increasingly great leadership roles, and use resources effectively
• Prepare inputs for business plans and budgets for the accomplishment of our work program, and report on progress to internal and external partners.
• Work independently with limited oversight.

What you'll need

• Education: You hold a Master's degree in economics, public administration, in addition to a master’s degree in economics, public administration, public affairs or other related discipline.
• Experience: You have at least 4 years for a specialist position and 3 years for a senior associate position of relevant and substantive experience in handling projects in the social protection and labor markets area, with relevant and substantive development policy and operational experience. We would look for you to have:
  • a proven expertise in the design, knowledge and use of project supervision tools, and evaluation of social protection and labor markets programs;
  • extensive field experience in working with national government and other partners at national and sub-national level in social protection and labor sector policy strategy formulation as well as experience in supporting implementation of programs in complex environments;
  • a proven expertise in conceptualization, implementation of economic and sector analytical work in the areas of social protection and labor, and handling large scale innovation/learning initiatives.
• Languages:  Proficiency in French and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese 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.
• 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.
• Haiti is a non-family post. Non-family post is defined as a Country Office whose location the Bank designates as “critical”. In such countries, the staff member's family may not reside nor visit. The selected candidate must comply with the terms, conditions and restrictions that may apply according to Bank regulations.
• The IDB Country Office is temporarily located in Cap-Haitien.

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. 
• Other perks (country specific).