Job Description

Work for the IMF. Work for the World.

Typically Reports to:

Deputy Division Chief, Division Chief, Unit Chief

The 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. 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. Participates in several Article IV and/or UFR missions a year to desk country or other department countries. Is responsible for systematic monitoring and assessment of economic and related political developments for desk country.
2. Assists mission chief in preparing first draft of mission reports for desk country, including briefing paper and staff report, and is responsible for collecting and analyzing data for assigned economic sectors of mission reports.
3. Provides Division Chief and senior department staff with complete, accurate, and current information needed for desk country surveillance, develops and maintains a comprehensive database and responds to other internal requests for information.
4. Maintains contacts with counterparts in functional departments, the World Bank Group, and other organizations regarding developments in the desk country. Develops and maintains effective relations with counterparts in member countries.
5. Gain strong command of major economic and political developments in desk country to monitor, interpret, and initiate reports to the Division Chief and senior departmental staff of such developments.
6. Develops targets and policy measures for consideration by the supervisor and mission team (e.g., financial programming, analysis of appropriateness of exchange rate, assessment of medium-term balance of payments viability), and contributes to formulation of the staff position on economic policies of assigned countries. Analysis blends theoretical framework with policy options and constraints in country-specific context.

Minimum Qualifications

In addition to the training and experience for Economist at grade A12, a minimum of two years of professional economist experience at Grade A12, or equivalent, is required.[1]( [1] Progression to Grade A13 is not automatic but is contingent on fully satisfactory performance as regards the handling of a desk assignment with increasingly less supervision, the preparation of assigned sections of country reports, the ability to function effectively as a member of a mission team, and assessed potential to take on a more challenging assignments.)

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.