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JOB DESCRIPTION

Post of duty: Washington, DC, USA

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 engaged, results-driven, and client-centric Information Technology (IT) Project Manager. As IT Project Manager, you will support the implementation of several new and on-going IT initiatives, leading the necessary coordination between the IT Department (ITE) and multiple IDB departments.

You will work as a Project Manager / Business Partner, as part of the ITE/IPX unit, in the ITE department. This team serves as the strategic interface with several IDB Departments and Offices with the purpose of business technology delivery and relationship management.

What you'll do:

• Serve as project coordinator and facilitator including managing project-related activities and supporting the (internal) technical teams with the interfacing of the project, through all the stages of the project – from requirements through production support.
• Manage activities to support and coordinate with vendors responsible for project deliverables, including enabling their onboarding, tracking their deliverables execution, and ensuring these are aligned to IDB's standards and procedure, and performing a quality delivery review.
• Manage multiple competing priorities within and between different projects.
• Facilitate discussions between business and technical teams towards finding creative, sustainable, and efficient design and implementation solutions.
• Coordinate technical meetings between ITE projects that share dependencies with the project.
• Oversee the project implementation schedule and ensure timely execution, reporting and escalation of any risks that need timely mitigation.
• Provide support in meetings with business clients and stakeholders from IADB departments, ensuring that the business requirements are being captured, designed and implemented adequately and with quality, and provide the required follow-up.
• Coordinate and manage any the training and change management actions.
• Draft communication summaries and presentation of key decision items, status reporting, and project risk and issues.

What you'll need:

• Education: Master's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering Management or other fields relevant to the responsibilities of the role. A master's degree in project management is highly desirable.
• Experience: At least 5 years of progressive experience in IT project management. Experience in managing implementations in SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow is preferable.
• Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.

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.
• 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:

• Type of contract: International Consultant Full-Time.
• Length of contract: 19 months.
• Work Location: On site.

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 packages.
• Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract + gender- neutral parental leave.
• Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
• Savings plan: ​​​​​​​The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
• We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.
• Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
• Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
• Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
• Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.

Consultant Part-Time

• A competitive compensation packages.
• A flexible way of working. You will be evaluated by deliverable.

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 to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.

Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.

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

We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.

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• External Opening Date: Nov 13, 2023
• External Closing Date: Nov 27, 2023
• External Contact Email:
• External Contact Name: HR Service Center
• Job Field: Technical Support

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