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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
We are looking for a strategic, dynamic and results oriented press coordinator. As press officer, you will oversee, coordinate, and enhance press activities that involves the President of the IDB and other Senior Executives, ensuring effective communication and a positive public image in both English and Portuguese speaking regions.
You will work in the Executive Communications team part of the External Affairs and Communications Department. This team is responsible for supporting the communications of the Office of the President, producing speeches, talking points, op-eds, background information for interviews, and develop cross-cutting messages to help position the work of the IDB Group. The team ensures proper alignment and coordination of all communication efforts with our country offices, operational sectors, corporate functions, IDB Lab and IDB Invest.
What you’ll do
- Press Relations:
- Develop and maintain relationships with journalists, media houses, and influencers in both English and Portuguese speaking territories.
- Handle media inquiries, arrange interviews, and coordinate press conferences.
- Monitor media coverage of the organization, identifying opportunities and challenges.
- Content Development:
- Collaborate with the communications team to develop press releases, statements, and other media materials in English and Portuguese.
- Coordinate with the speechwriter and other content creators to ensure consistency in messaging across all press materials.
- Event Coordination:
- Manage logistics for media events, including press conferences, media briefings, and interviews.
- Ensure that all events are accessible to media personnel and facilitate their needs during such events.
- Translation and Localization:
- Translate press materials between English and Portuguese.
- Ensure messaging is culturally sensitive and tailored to local media landscapes.
- Crisis Management:
- Collaborate with senior leadership and the communications team to address any negative press or public relations crises.
- Develop and implement crisis communication plans when necessary.
What you’ll need
- Education: Master’s degree in communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or a related field (or the equivalence between experience and education).
- Experience: At least 5 years of experience in media relations, press coordination, or a related role. Proven proficiency in both English and Portuguese, with a portfolio that showcases press releases or media communications in both languages.
- Languages: Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required.
Requirements
- 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 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
- Staff: International staff contract, 36 months initially, renewable upon mutual agreement.
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 package, including an annual base salary expressed on a net-of-tax basis.
- Leaves and vacations: 24 days of paid time off + 8 personal days + sick leave + gender-neutral parental leave.
- Health Insurance: IDB Group provides employees and eligible dependents with a robust medical benefits program that covers medical, dental, vision, preventive care, and prescription drugs.
- Pension plan: defined benefit pension plan that provides financial security and support employees in planning for their future.
- We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Health and well-being: Access to our Health Services Center that provides preventive care and health education for employees.
- Development support: We offer tools to boost your professional profile, such as mentoring, 1:1 professional counseling, training and learning opportunities, language classes, mobility options, among others.
- Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, Spouse Career Program, 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 diversity@iadb.org to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.