Reporting and Data Science Consultant
JOB DETAIL
Post of duty: Washington D.C.
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position:
(The Knowledge, Innovation and Communication (KIC) within the Vice-Presidency of Sectors and Knowledge (VPS) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is responsible for a broad agenda related to the acquisition, creation, exchange, dissemination, and application of knowledge, both within the organization and throughout the LAC Region. KIC is exploring ways to add value to the data we have collected throughout the years and is introducing the next level of reporting. As part of this effort, we are looking for a person capable of prototyping, explore and analyze the data, identify patterns, and come up with clever ways to present this data to the publicWe are looking for a Reporting and Data Science Consultant). As Reporting and Data Science Consultant you will acting as a technical liaison for KIC data processing, report and dashboard generation, coordinating with the Enterprise Data Warehouse archival and facilitating the dialog of IT technical and non-technical teams for gathering business needs.
KIC’s Information Services Unit (ISU) part of The Knowledge, Innovation and Communication (KIC) department. This team is responsible for conducts data collection and analysis to improve knowledge, innovation, and communication products.
What you’ll do:
- Gather reports and dashboard requirements from power users (administrators).
- Elaborate reports and dashboards with a user-centric design perspective, to advise KIC system administrators and teams.
- Extract data from current automated reports and raw data from base systems using tools like Tableau, PowerBI, R or Python.
- Design workflows for Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) processes. Source systems include Hyperion, SAP SuccessFactors, SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, EdX, Moodle, Brand watch, etc.
- Coordinate data and information interoperability with the IT department for ETL processing.
- Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.
- Collaborate with data governance efforts.
- Identify data errors and patterns and perform data analytics with different purposes, such as, but not limited to forecast analysis, data cleansing, generate methods for automatically detect and guarantee data integrity to ensure accuracy, completeness and uniformity.
- Generate technical documentation related to data processing and other activities under its responsibility.
- Provide advice on process improvement.
Other activities as agreed with the supervisor.
What you’ll need:
- Education: A bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Analytics, or a related discipline. Candidates with other academic backgrounds who have significant experience in data analytics or data science will also be considered.
- Experience: a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
- Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.
- Analytical, strong data science background, software: R, Python, Octave, or any other statistical analysis tool.
- Creative.
- Outside of the box thinker.
- Attentive to detail.
- Proactive.
Requirements:
- Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
Type of contract and duration:
- Type of contract: International Consultant Full-Time.
- Length of contract: 12 months.
- Work Location: On site.
What we offer:
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation packages.
- Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract + gender- neutral parental leave.
- Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
- Savings plan: The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
- We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
- Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
- Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.
Our culture:
At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at [email protected] to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group:
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
About IDB:
We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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