Post of Duty: Kingston, Jamaica

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:

Background of the search: The Social Sector (SCL) is a multidisciplinary team convinced that investing in people is the way to improve lives and overcome the development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Jointly with the countries in the Region, the Social Sector formulates public policy solutions to reduce poverty and improve the delivery of education, work, social protection, and health services. The objective is to advance a more productive region, with equal opportunities for men and women, and greater inclusion of the most vulnerable groups. The Labor Markets and Social Security Division (SCL/LMK) promotes more and better jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB works to achieve regional goals in poverty reduction, equity of opportunities and improvement of labor productivity, through the strengthening of employment and training services, improvement in the design and scope of social security, and analysis of labor markets and labor information. To achieve these goals, the IDB is currently focusing on analytical work and projects in the following four main areas: Intermediation, Labor Training, Labor Force Migration and Social Security.

The team’s mission: The consultant will support the Division of Labor Markets and Social Security (SCL/LMK) in the development of a wide range of policy dialogue activities, preparation and execution of operations and development of knowledge products and technical support. The place of residence is in Jamaica. However, the scope of action may be extended, when necessary, to other countries in the Caribbean.

What you’ll do:

• Support in the development of policy and technical dialogue with employment, social security, technical education, and economy authorities, as well as representatives of the productive sector, trade union associations and other actors, educational and/or job training institutions, international agencies, non-governmental and governmental organizations that intervene in the sector at the national and sub-national levels.
• Contribute to the generation of sectoral studies for the design and technical administration of loan operations, incorporating a degree of technical knowledge and lessons learned tothose operations. Specifically support in the collection of data, engage with counterparts for the design project in the preparation of the Project Operational Document of the JA-L1091.
• Support the execution, supervision, analysis of results and impacts; and progress of achievement of the results of the JA-L1079 in Jamaica, as well as analyzing the reasons for possible delays and alternatives to achieve the necessary results. Specifically in the preparation of the Project Completion Report of the JA-L1079.
• Participate in: (i) management by results; (ii) administration missions, technical and operational management visits, and meetings of technical support and guidance for executing agencies, in accordance with the agreed supervision plans; and (iii) coordinating efforts with other cooperation agencies within the Bank’s program with the country in the sector.
• Support the executing agencies in: (i) achieving the effective execution of the operations under their responsibility and continuously evaluating the institutional capacity of all the execution instances of projects at the national level or in the localities where they develop; (ii) convey information on best practices, technical support needs and other relevant aspects to ensure the smooth running of the financial and physical execution, and achievement of results of its operations with the Division; and (iii) support in the intermediate and final evaluations of the execution of operations and assist in guiding the design of the corresponding reports.
• Coordinate with industry-specific organizations for skills development initiatives.
• Support in coordinating the participation of the Division in the programming processes and development of sector and country strategies.
• Support the development and monitoring of knowledge products and technical support on the labor markets and social security areas, as well as in the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs on the topics cited in the context of national development policies and promotion of productivity and equity.
• Actively participate in the planning of workshops and events including the dissemination and social marketing of knowledge products, operations, workshops, and seminars and other SCL/LMK activities.