Data Scientist Consultant

What you will need:

• 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: Master’s degree in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Computer Science, or related fields.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Languages: Ability to read, write and speak fluently in Spanish or English.

Core and Technical Competencies:

• Self-management, flexibility, dependability, relationship building, results-driven, with strong communication skills.
• Experience working with text data and knowledge of common NLP algorithms used for text classification, information retrieval, text summarization, word embeddings, etc.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python and its common libraries for data analysis and NLP is required. Knowledge of R is desirable.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, extracting data, and maintain data pipelines.
• Ability to write clean code. Experience with version control systems such as Git a plus.  (Include link to github portfolio in your application)
• Experience working in an inter-disciplinary/cross-functional team and communicating to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge and experience deploying applications on AWS a plus.

Opportunity Summary: 

• Type of contract and modality: Product and External Services Consultant, Lumpsum
• Length of contract: 3 months
• Location: Remote
• Responsible person: Lead Learning and Knowledge Management Specialist.
• 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’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.