Technical Support / Administrative Consultant

Company: Inter-American Development Bank
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 17, 2025

Job Description:

Technical Support / Administrative Consultant Job DescriptionCity: Washington DCCompany: IDBPosting End Date: 04/21/2021About this positionThe Housing and Urban Development Division (HUD), part of the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector (CSD), is responsible for developing and overseeing analytical support and strategic thinking with a forward-looking vision on cities' sustainability in LAC, thus seeking to contribute to the goals and commitments included in both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda.HUD is looking for a highly motivated professional to work as a general administration consultant. The main scope of the consultant work will be to provide support in the areas of process of contracts and payments, finance, and general coordination related to HUD operations, such as loans and technical cooperation, among others.What you'll do:

• Manage the hiring related tasks (contract requests, renewals, and amendments) of External Product Consultants (PEC) and Corporate Procurement (PRC) contracts of consulting firms in accordance with IDB policies and protocols, following up on each contract request from start to finish.
• Prepare and maintain payment schedules for PECs and PRC contracts, ensuring contracts are fully disbursed prior to their expiration dates.
• Process and follow-up on payment requests for external vendors (Business Partners) both in SAP and Convergence systems, including Letters of Agreements (LOAs).
• Process Technical Cooperations (TC) funded financial transactions in Convergence (Special Cases Commitments, commitment opening for consultants, balance of TC components, etc.)
• Collaborate in developing, improving and maintaining new and existing financial databases that facilitate the retrieval of information effectively.
• Provide technical advice to teams regarding budgets, expenditures, payments, procurement, corporate processes' timelines and other activities as needed.
• Support HUD TC Monitoring Report exercise by collecting relevant data and processing adjustments and/or cancellations of financial commitments, as applicable.
• The aforementioned activities are part of the position's main responsibilities; however, they do not exclude additional activities that may be necessary for completing tasks.What you'll need:
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration, finance, information technology, or relevant field.
    • Experience: You have at least 2 years of relevant professional experience.
    • Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French and Portuguese is preferable.Key skills:
      • Learn continuously
      • Collaborate and share knowledge
      • Focus on clients
      • Communicate and influence
      • Innovate and try new thingsRequirements:
        • 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: 6 months with a possibility of a 12-month extension
          • Work Location: On site.
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Keywords: Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC , Technical Support / Administrative Consultant, IT / Software / Systems , Washington, DC