Brand and Outreach Cluster Head – Communications Sr. Specialist.

What you will need: 

Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries. We may help with relocation and visa applications for you and your eligible dependents. 
Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
Education: Master’s degree in communications, marketing, or similar field
Experience: At least 8 years of professional experience.

Qualifications: 
 

• 8+ years total communications, brand and/or marketing experience, with a proven track record in brand, reputation, and outreach leadership.
• In-house corporate communications experience, communications experience in third sector or agency experience. Account management experience a plus.
• Experience conceptualizing, implementing, driving, and executing brand strategy work and operationalizing the output across an organization. Experience implementing this is a matrix organization is a plus. 
• Understands and applies a wide range of data-driven, quantitative, and qualitative communications and branding methodologies, such as drivers of choice, brand, and reputation tracking, NPS and others.
• Ability to move fast and effectively from idea to execution and orchestrate team activities amplifying outcomes of the strategic planning process. 
• Familiarity with setting a positioning agenda considering political, cultural, and social issues impacting global landscape.
• Press operations, media relations and crisis communications dexterity. Media monitoring and press effectiveness.
• Experience in crafting meaningful events and stakeholder interactions as part of a connected outreach plan.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and managing talent in complex organizations. Work across countries, engaging with corporate, regional, and local offices desired.
• Proven experience managing a team, accountable for employee life cycle.
• Proven experience managing budgets and run of function, exhibiting, and driving accountability in the team. 
• Excellent project management and planning skills with experience managing cross-functional teams and projects in internal and external communications.
• Innovative and continuous improvement mindset.
• Proven track record of “making things happen”. Creativity, diplomacy, and ability to juggle heavy volume of diverse projects, including both strategic and tactical assignments.
•  Excellent problem-solving and project management skills; ability to navigate a complex organization effectively to drive high-impact initiatives.
• Ability to build trust-based relationships with (senior) partner leaders and functional leaders.

Languages: English and Spanish are required. Portuguese and French are a plus.

Expected Values and Behaviors:

The individual is expected to abide by the IDB Group values and behaviors as set forth in the institutional Code of Conduct. Additionally, as a member of the KIC team, he/she is accountable for upholding KIC’s guiding principles: create equality, be kind, build trust and have empathy. We believe that talent and culture is a way to win, and welcome team players who share this.

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Opportunity Summary:  
Type of contract and modality: Staff
Length of contract: 3 Years, with possibility for renewal as per mutual agreement
Starting date: Upon agreement with the candidate 
Location: Washington, D.C.
Requirements: You must be a citizen of one of the IDB’s 48 member countries and have no family members currently working at the IDB Group.   

Our culture: Our people are committed and passionate about improving lives in Latin-America and the Caribbean, and they get to do what they love in a diverse, collaborative and stimulating work environment. We are the first Latin American and Caribbean development institution to be awarded the EDGE certification, recognizing our strong commitment to gender equality. As an employee you can be part of internal resource groups that connect our diverse community around common interests. 
Because we are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, we embrace all diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+, persons with disabilities, afro-descendants, and indigenous people to apply.

About us: At the IDB, we are committed to improving lives. Since 1959, we have been a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. We do more than lending though. We partner with our 48-member countries to provide Latin America and the Caribbean with cutting-edge research about relevant development issues, policy advice to inform their decisions, and technical assistance to improve on the planning and execution of projects. For this, we need people who not only have the right skills, but also are passionate about improving lives. 

The IDB offers a competitive remuneration and benefits package.
Our team in Human Resources carefully reviews all applications. 
 

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for our Region, the IDB Group is reviewing its hiring needs and re-prioritizing its areas of talent acquisition. We encourage candidates to continue to apply to the active postings, yet current job openings may be subject to further decisions in terms of timing of the processes, or other actions, in accordance with business needs. Final hiring decisions may also be conditioned to the candidate’s ability to timely relocate to the post of duty at the moment of starting service. In the event, the selected candidate cannot relocate to the post of duty, the start date may have to be postponed or temporary work agreement ratified, ad-hoc, in accordance with business needs and applicable policies, with the view of having the candidate physically present in the post of duty by July 1 at the latest, should travel regulations permit it.