Knowledge and Learning Specialist/Senior Associate
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Location:
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Salary:negotiable / YEAR
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Job type:FULL_TIME
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Posted:4 hours ago
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Category:Education, Human Resources
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Deadline:04/10/2024
JOB DESCRIPTION
Knowledge and Learning Specialist/Senior Associate
Data and Technology for Knowledge Management
Knowledge and Learning Division
Washington, D.C.
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
The Knowledge and Learning Division (KLD) provides clients with guidance and tools to capture, generate, manage, and use knowledge, and support the planning and development of learning products.
We are looking for a dynamic, data-minded, upbeat professional to join the Knowledge and Learning Division as a Knowledge and Learning Specialist/Senior Associate. This role will be all about Data and Technology for Knowledge Management. You will be challenged to use your knowledge for coordinating projects and to apply your hands-on technical abilities for data analysis and advising on technical processes, and you should have a proactive demeanor towards information dissemination, access, and discovery.
You will work in the Knowledge and Learning Division, supporting both the Knowledge Management and Felipe Herrera Library Teams in complementary efforts to ensure that relevant operational and analytical knowledge is widely available to be used, shared, and built upon. These teams work together to promote the symbiotic relationship between analytical and operational knowledge. We are a Division of seasoned professionals working to support the IDB’s ambitious objectives to become the premier institution for knowledge production in the Region, to incorporate external frontier knowledge into operational processes, and to leverage knowledge as a critical means to enhance our development impact.
What you’ll do:
- Use your client service skills to act as responsible focal point for system and data interoperability to support knowledge management processes for KLD division to better serve all IDB personnel.
- Apply your knowledge of data interoperability to supervise and ensure reliable data flows between all systems related to knowledge management products and services, including the Knowledge Platform (internal digital solution under design).
- Use your technical knowledge to advise on the use of data and technological approaches in the context of addressing knowledge management challenges.
- Use your understanding of taxonomy and ontology, and your understanding of natural language processing (NLP) techniques, to coordinate the classification of analytical and operational knowledge assets.
- Coordinate with our Information Technology Department and with external vendors related to the acquisition of technologies and provision of services that support the knowledge management ecosystem at the IDB.
- Apply your advanced critical thinking and communication skills to analyze complex business processes, including the systematization of lessons learned, as needed and recommend simplified, quality solutions/enhancements to problems identified via troubleshooting, user feedback, and testing.
What you’ll need
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Education: Master’s Degree or equivalent in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science/Engineering, Information Technology, Library Science, or other related technical area
Experience:
- At least 3 years of demonstrated experience in the following areas:
- requirements definition and documentation
- cleaning data, transforming data, and analyzing data
- technology platform development, deployment, and/or management
- strong proficiency with Python and/or other programming languages used for working with data and text
- ability to extract and manipulate data from multiple sources (databases, platforms, tables, APIs, etc.)
- experience working with metadata standards and/or taxonomy implementations
- knowledge management methodologies and/or standards
- experience working with LLMs, and/or generative AI powered processes and platforms
- understanding of core AI/ML and NLP concepts, and ability to communicate them conceptually
- project management
Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.
Key skills
Technical track:
- 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.
Type of contract and duration
- International staff contract, 36 months initially, renewable upon mutual agreement.
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, including an annual base salary expressed on a net-of-tax basis.
- 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 support employees in planning for their future.
- We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Health and well-being: Access to our Health Services Center that 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: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, Spouse Career Program, and others.
Our culture
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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
The Inter-American Development Bank is devoted to improving lives. Established in 1959, the IDB is a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB also conducts innovative research and provides policy advice, technical assistance, and training to public and private sector clients throughout the region.
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