Country reports of Barbados, Costa Rica, Jamaica and comparative Policy White Paper on the institutional context for delivering sustainable infrastructure services in targeted sub-sectors

• Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
• 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 and Experience: MSc, MPhil or similar, PhD advantageous. Academic background preferably in public administration, law, or political economy, or engineering/architecture combined with additional policy qualifications.
• Experience: Minimum 10 years professional work experience including in an international context and in LAC. Previous experience in government related to infrastructure a plus, preferably in LAC, and ideally in the countries to be analyzed. Experience working with/at MDBs a plus.  Strong regional expertise – especially Caribbean region / countries to be analyzed, infrastructure expertise, public administration, policy-making, public law, previous experience working in government related to infrastructure advantageous, sustainability expertise (economic/financial, institutional, social, environmental – including climate, resilience), in-depth expertise working with and/or creating indices, especially for comparing country performance of their institutional frameworks, business environments or similar. Specific country expertise, ideally resident researcher (or similar) in those countries. 
• Skills: Report drafting, analytical frameworks, gap analysis, stakeholder analysis/mapping, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact analysis, policy sequencing / change management / organizational change, organization of drafting/consultation processes, incl. events. Strong regional networks in LAC (especially Caribbean region and countries to be analyzed) related to infrastructure, incl. in government, regional/international organizations, donor/community/foundations, business, civil society, academia/think tanks.
• Languages: Excellent command of oral and written English and Spanish required. 

• Consultancy Category & Modality: PEC Consultant
• Location: Remote work from consultant's place of residence.
• Responsible person: Sector Principal Specialist (CSD/CCS) who will provide comments to any reports, approve reports, documents, work, and give instructions for any changes. The Sector Principal Specialist may delegate such tasks to other team members. It shall be the Firm’s responsibility for ensuring that such meetings are conducted, and such reports are submitted to the Bank.
• Reporting Requirements: The consultant will prepare reports in English language and deliver them in Microsoft Word. docx format (final report) and MS PowerPoint .ppt (interim results presentation, final results summary) and in case of delivery of any databases or similar in Microsoft Excel .xlsx format.
• Other Requirements: (Bank policy GN-2765-1 does not allow the procurement of goods and related services except when such goods and related services are necessary to achieve the objectives of the Bank-executed Operational Work and are included in the consulting services contract and represent less than ten percent (10%) of the consulting services contract value.)  If it is determined that acquisition of goods is necessary by the consulting firm, please add a very detailed technical specification of the minimum requirement of said goods.
• 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.   

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