Employment and Scholarships

The IDB seeks to hire and retain bright and dedicated professionals from its 47 member countries to work at its Washington headquarters and in its 28 Country Offices in Latin America, the Caribbean, France and Japan. Its employment opportunities include junior professionals and diversity junior professionals for those with a Master's, ''Licenciatura" or equivalent, summer internship and winter internships, and diversity internship programs for graduate students, and both summer and winter employee, as well as the diversity employee program for undergraduate students. The diversity programs is for Afro-descendants and indigenous peoples.

Fluency in at least two of the Bank’s four official languages—English, Spanish, Portuguese and French—is required for most positions.

As part of its commitment to training professionals, the Bank runs several scholarship programs.