Translation and Documentation Section, Contracts Assistant Consultant

What you’ll need:

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 fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB Group. 

Education: Associates degree or equivalent experience in administration, social sciences, or language-related field.

Experience: Two years of relevant professional experience monitoring workflows, prioritizing requests, serving as point of contact with external parties and processing requests. Must be familiar and comfortable using standard automated office systems, databases, and web technologies. 

Core and Technical Competencies:

• Areas of Expertise:  Full command of Microsoft software, particularly word-processing programs, graphics programs, and spreadsheet and database programs.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Great attention to detail.
• Ability to work discreetly and under pressure.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines consistently.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.

• Type of contract: Consultant
• Length of contract: 6 months
• Location: Headquarters
• 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: Working with us you will be surrounded by a diverse group of people who have years of experience in all types of development fields, including transportation, health, gender and diversity, communications and much more.

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.  

We encourage women, afro-descendants, people of indigenous origins, and persons with disabilities 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.