Idb Invest

**IDB Group Private Sector Regional Operations Coordinator - CID Countries**

**Background**: We are currently looking for a Coordinator to support the IDB Invest Chief Strategy Officer, the IDB Country Department Regional Manager, and the IDB Group Country Representatives in the CID Countries (Central America, Mexico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic), in leveraging IDB Group potential and operational synergies in the region; operationalizing the IDB Group Country Strategies and IDB Invest Strategic Selectivity Framework; and coordinating the generation of knowledge products and other areas of support.

**The team**: IDB Invest’s Strategy and Development Department’s (DSP) primary role primary role is to lead IDB Invest efforts to create, implement and sustain its strategic vision and achieve development impact and additionality. DSP delivers on Advisory Services, Development Effectiveness, Strategic Planning and Knowledge Management, Social, Environmental and Governance, and Corporate Affairs.

The IDB’s Vice Presidency for Countries (VPC) leads the dialogue and the relationship of the IDB Group with borrowing member countries; formulates country strategies; coordinates and supervises the development of the operational program; manages the public sector portfolio, including the provision of expert fiduciary advice for project design and execution; leads the engagement with civil society; and manages the IDB's concessional lending to the poorest countries of the Region. You will be under the direct supervision of both the IDB’s Country Department Regional Manager for the CID Countries and the IDB Invest’s Chief Strategy Officer.

**What you’ll do**:
**Foster IDB Group potential and operational alignments in the region**
- Provide strategic, operational, and technical support to the IDB Invest, Country Department General Manager, the Country Representatives, the Country Department at large, and IDB Lab regarding private sector and non-sovereign guaranteed (NSG) opportunities, products, pipeline, and portfolio in the region.
- Ensure that the Country Department Manager and Country Representatives have access to key up-to-date information of the private sector operational and institutional priorities: S&I Strategy and Action Plan, origination efforts, pipeline, portfolio, clients, public private synergies, etc.
- Ensure that the IDB Invest and IDB Lab senior management have access to key up-to-date information on operational and institutional priorities of the respective region, and work together with the other regional coordinators to identify information relevant for NSG audiences, developing and strengthening a value proposition for IDB Invest and IDB Lab.
- Identify and incorporate private sector perspectives in public sector operations (and vice versa) throughout the lifecycle of both sovereign (SG) and non-sovereign guaranteed (NSG) operations, placing emphasis on the eligibility process.
- Support the Country Representatives in the programming process to identify opportunities that may result in NSG operations and/or require the participation of IDB Invest/IDB Lab (and vice versa).
- In conjunction with the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) team, the Country Department Manager and Country Representatives, prioritize the identification of potential PPP projects that need IDB Group support and financing through IDB Invest, as well as State Owned Enterprises, which are bankable and require NSG financing.
- Identify areas in which IDB Invest and IDB Lab operations could support the expansion of IDB activity (and vice versa), through preliminary work on regulation, institutional strengthening, and market development. This will require strong interaction with operational counterparts (VPS and INO) to enhance sectoral synergies.
- In close coordination with IDB Invest Investment Operations Department (INO), the IDB Invest Chief Strategy Officer, the Country Department Manager and Country Representatives, promote IDB Group non-sovereign guaranteed and private sector business in the region, including by participating in the dialogue with private sector organizations in the respective regions, chambers of commerce and industry, etc. to support IDB Invest visibility and positioning at the country level.
- Provide intellectual leadership on private sector development issues in the Country Offices, propose and monitor the key performance indicators for the follow up of the private sector strategy (e.g., origination, PPPs, leverage, guarantees, nonperformance).
- Identify opportunities and trends in the public sector dialogue and in the technical cooperation and knowledge resources of the Bank, to generate NSG opportunities in the medium to long-term horizon (i.e., 18 months to 5 years).

**Operationalize IDB Group Country Strategies and IDB Invest Strategic Selectivity Framework**
- Participate in the development of the country strategies for the region, with a focus on operationalizing IDB Group alignm