Building a New Shared Brand for the Jamaica Sauces & Spices Cluster / IFD/CTI / JA-T1192/ Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility (CCPF) – Cluster Manager Consultant

What you’ll need:

• Citizenship: You are either a citizen of Jamaica or a citizen of one of our 48-member countries with residency or legal permit to work in Jamaica.
• Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB Group.
• Education: A bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, project management; economics or related field.
• Experience: At least 2 years of working experience in project management. pecific experience in the following areas: private sector development, cluster management and experience in matching grants projects.  Experience in marketing, and/or agriculture/agroprocessing projects would be an asset.
• Languages: Fluency in written and spoken English.

• Excellent communication skills, and ability to establish and maintain good working relationship with private sector, government and other organisations.
• Strong facilitation and leadership skills with ability to relate to broad range of stakeholders.
• Practical experience with clusters in Jamaica.
• An intimate and pre-existing network of contacts within the private sector as well as within cluster partner organizations, potential suppliers and wider political spheres.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability in project management and facilitation skills
• Reliable and demonstrated ability to work independently
• Well organized, strong problem-solving abilities
• Demonstrated ability to create confidence and provide leadership
• Trustworthiness and integrity and a demonstrated ability to work independently in challenging environments
• Have a flexible approach and persistence to optimize results.
• Analytical Thinking, Client Service, Ability to empower others, creative thinking, conflict resolution, decision making, risk management, leadership, communication and good interpersonal skills.

• Type of contract and modality:  Products and External Services Consultant (PEC), Lump Sum.
• Length of contract: 12 months, possibility of extension for a second year
• Starting date: December 2020
• Location: Jamaica.
• Responsible person: Sector Senior Associate IFD/CTI.
• 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.  

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’re committed to improving lives. Since 1959, we’ve 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.

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.”