Job Description

Work for the IMF. Work for the World.

Typically Reports to:

Deputy Division Chief, Division Chief, Unit Chief

The Senior Economist will contribute to a wide range of challenging policy issues that span different branches of economics by providing analysis, policy, and program design, and capacity development to help the member countries address their specific economic challenges. In an area department, the Economist will work on one or two specific countries or for a region. She/he will analyze and design an appropriate mix of fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policies to promote and maintain macroeconomic stability, examine macro-financial linkages in an increasingly globalized world, address issues of good economic governance, examine issues of fiscal and external debt sustainability, and develop approaches to promoting regional and broader trade liberalization.
The Senior Economist is assigned a difficult country desk, participates in missions, writes first draft of reports, and develops policy recommendations and interpretations. Completed work contributes to the quality of the Fund's policy advice and, more generally, to maintaining and enhancing the Fund's relations with member countries.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

1. Responsible for systematic monitoring and assessment of economic and related political developments for desk country. Provides Division Chief and senior departmental staff with complete, accurate, and current information needed for desk country surveillance, and responds to other internal requests for information.
2. Has a significant role in the coordination and preparation of the first draft of mission reports for desk country for which incumbent may be "second in charge" on mission, and is responsible for collecting and analyzing data for assigned sections of mission reports.
3. Maintains contact with counterparts in functional departments, the World Bank Group, and other organizations regarding developments in desk country. Develops and maintains effective relations with counterparts in member countries. Assists in training junior division staff.
4. For assigned country, develops and maintains comprehensive economic database for use in evaluating economic developments and policies. Develops targets and policy measures for consideration by the supervisor and mission team.
5. May occasionally be required to develop recommendations requiring interpretation of Fund policies for applicability to specific situations. Is given latitude to exercise judgment in developing recommendations for resolution of specific economic policy problems of assigned countries.
6. Have strong command of major economic and political developments in desk country to monitor, interpret, and initiate reports to Division Chief and senior departmental staff of such developments.

Minimum Qualifications

In addition to the training and experience for Economist at grade A13, a minimum of three years of professional economist experience at grade A13, or equivalent, is required.[1]([1] Promotion to Grade A14 is not automatic, but is dependent on performance and assessed potential to take on one of the department's more challenging desk assignments, and the ability to assume a substantial role in the drafting and coordinating of assigned country reports.)

Department:

HRP HR Programs

Hiring For:

A11, A12, A13, A14

The IMF is guided by the principle that the employment, classification, promotion, and assignment of staff shall be made without discrimination against any person. We welcome requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities during the selection process. Information on how to request accommodations will be provided during the application process.