Appel à manifestation d’intérêt : Banque interaméricaine de développement (BID) recherche un(e) Consultant(e), Etats-Unis.

Appel à manifestation d’intérêt : Banque interaméricaine de développement (BID) recherche un(e) Consultant(e), Etats-Unis.

Background:

IDB Lab is the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group. It mobilizes financing, knowledge, and connections to support entrepreneurs to catalyze innovation that can drive inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). IDB Lab believes that innovation is a powerful tool that can transform this region, as it provides with unprecedented opportunities to solve long-standing problems that are preventing vulnerable populations to improve their quality of life.

For over 25 years, IDB Lab has been using of a range of reimbursable financing instruments, from equity investments in early-stage companies with high impact and high growth models to investments in venture capital (VC) funds, for which IDB Lab has been an instrumental anchor investor helping to shape the VC industry in LAC. IDB Lab has been also testing and deploying new venture debt instruments to advance its strategy. IDB Lab also leverages third party financing to achieve its developmental goals, including environment and climate-oriented funds aligned with its strategies.

The Team: –

The Investment Unit (INV) at IDB Lab is the unit responsible for originating and managing the portfolio of reimbursable operations. IDB Lab Investment Unit has a systemic role of filling key funding gaps, bridging key connections in different fields (e.g., public and private) and mobilizing key ecosystem resources to support specific ventures with outstanding socioeconomic or environmental impact potential. IDB Lab adds relevant value to those ventures during their business consolidation and expansion and fosters their impact towards solving some of the most pressing development and inclusion challenges of different sectors in LAC (Fintech, Edtech, Healthtech, Agtech/Biotech, etc.).

What you’ll do:

• Support the origination of deal flow that could become potential investment opportunities by working and developing relationships with public and private institutions that support entrepreneurs (venture capital funds, accelerators, etc.), as well as with the Investment Officers in the different countries across the region.
• Provide support in the assessment of investment opportunities in high impact and high growth startups, including co-leading or participating in due diligence, financial modeling and valuation analysis, market and exit analysis, among others.
• Provide support to the preparation of investment terms with high impact and high growth startups, alongside with Investment Officers, legal and compliance teams.
• Prepare investment memoranda as well as other operational and strategic documents related to IDB Lab’s equity investments in start-ups.
• Create decks and other materials to support investor relations and reporting, fundraising, and business development opportunities.
• Support the supervision of positions within the IDB Lab’s financial portfolio, particularly the direct equity investments in early-stage firms, adding value to foster these firm’s impact and growth.
• Provide input to IDB Lab’s equity investments in start-ups thesis to achieve development objectives (impact, innovation), while also generating expected financial returns.