Location:

Mexico City, Mexico
Salary:

negotiable / YEAR
Job type:

CONTRACTOR
Posted:

2 weeks ago
Category:

Innovation and Knowledge Management
Deadline:

03/05/2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

Post of Duty: Mexico City, Mexico

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

Business unit: Innovation and Creativity Division (ICD), within the Knowledge, Innovation and Communication Sector (KIC)

Report to: Innovation Senior Specialist

We are looking for a creative, results-driven, and strategic Innovation Consultant. As an Innovation Consultant you will contribute to the scoping, and delivery of design, strategy, and digital transformation processes, and introduce tools and methodologies that drive creative thinking to successfully support the innovation and creativity agenda of the Bank.

You will work in the Innovation and Creativity Division, part of the Knowledge, Innovation, and Communication department. This team is responsible for strengthening the Bank’s internal capacities to innovate through raising awareness, building capacity, and developing innovative and creative products to development challenges. We collect and disseminate lessons learned from innovative practices; design and implement capacity building products for IDB Group teams, while leveraging strategic partnerships with the private sector and academia to catalyze innovation; and facilitate the design of innovative products which have the potential to be replicable and scalable in the Latin American and Caribbean region through the adoption of disruptive technologies and creativity.

What you’ll do:

Coordinate and run innovation processes and other shorter interventions as innovation sprints (1-3 weeks) as needed, both for development and corporate challenges of the IDB.
- Identify user needs: Conduct new project conversations with corporate or sector teams and craft project proposals based on identified needs, applying techniques for conducting user research and gathering insights.
- Analyze and synthesize user data to identify pain points and needs.
- Ideation and Prototyping: apply creative ideation techniques for generating innovative ideas and rapid prototyping methods to visualize concepts and gather feedback.
- Testing and Iteration: apply strategies for conducting user testing and obtaining meaningful feedback.
- Incorporate feedback into iterative design improvements.
Integrate Human Centered Design methodologies into the product development lifecycle.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure user-centric solutions.
Provide input and advice on the design and facilitate workshops for multiple audiences.
Track and support projects and teams under agile frameworks.
Synthetizing research insights into engaging narratives, maps, and frameworks.
Synthetize research insights into engaging narratives, maps, and frameworks.
Create data visualizations, presentations and other visual narrative products that foster innovative thinking and cultural change.
Design and create processes with their corresponding visual and communication compelling materials during different phases and collaborative spaces of specific innovation methodologies, such as design research, prototyping workshops, testing or generative sessions.
Promote and influence teams within the Bank to challenge conventional practices and instill an innovation mindset into decision-making processes and projects.
Track and evaluate the progress of innovation activities and adjust the pace or direction of projects in accordance with the strategic priorities and client needs.

What you’ll need:
Education: Hold a master’s degree or equivalent bachelor’s degree “Licenciatura” / advanced degree/specialization in Transdisciplinary Design, Strategic Design, Design for Social Innovation, Service Design, Social Sciences, Engineering, Communications, Marketing, Graphic Design or equivalent discipline, Human-centered design/design thinking/design management, User experience, Innovation design/Product design, Entrepreneurship.
Experience: Minimum of 5 years working in design / innovation consultancies or similar firms.
Languages: You are fluent (oral and written) in both English and Spanish. Additional knowledge of Portuguese and/or French is a plus.

Key Skills:

You have proven project management skills, including but not limited to communication, planning, risk, tasks and cost management, negotiation, critical thinking, and quality management.
You are results oriented and keep yourself updated in new innovation approaches and methodologies.
You have experience in:
- Deploying innovation methodologies to facilitate design thinking and/or piloting processes for solutions.
- Designing and facilitating co-design innovation workshops.
- Using online collaboration tools for workshops and remote innovation work.
- Presenting ideas in a visually appealing manner.
- Working in multi-disciplinary and/or cross-sector teams, with demonstrated integration skills.
- You have an established network of connections with innovation ecosystems.

Requirements:

Citizenship: You are either a citizen of Mexico or a citizen of one of our 48-member countries with residency or legal permit to work in Mexico.
Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB Group.

Type of contract and duration:

Type of contract: National Consultant (National Remote Modality).
Length of contract: 12 months
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 package.
Leave 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.
Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.

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 diversity@iadb.org 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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