Economist/Sr. Economist (Contractual, ICDMF)

International Monetary Fund • Washington DC, DC

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About The Position

The General Macro and Fiscal Division of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development (ICDMF) is seeking an Economist or Senior Economist to support its macroeconomic frameworks technical assistance, training, and analytical development work. ICDMF delivers technical assistance to build forecasting and policy-analysis capacity at fiscal agencies and other public institutions. Its projects often involve multi-year engagements with government officials to embed macroeconomic frameworks, models, analytical tools, and forecasting and policy analysis systems within institutions.

The successful candidate will contribute to the design and delivery of technical assistance projects, develop analytical tools and capacity-development materials, and may deliver external and internal training. The role also involves contributing to divisional and departmental analytical and development efforts and may include work on the Comprehensive Macroeconomic Frameworks Environment (CMFE) initiative. This is a one-year contractual appointment, renewable for up to four years of cumulative contractual service, subject to performance, budget availability, and continuing business need.

Requirements

• Considerable graduate work in economics, or equivalent educational development supplemented by work experience.
• Substantive background in macroeconomic and fiscal policy issues, economic modeling, and medium-term forecasting.
• Strong analytical abilities and good institutional knowledge of central banks and ministries of finance.
• Advanced knowledge of time-series analysis, including state-space modeling, Bayesian and classical inference, optimization methods, calibration strategies, and near-term forecasting and nowcasting methods.
• Knowledge of standard economic-modeling computing environments: Python, Matlab, R, and Excel.
• Ability to develop new tools in these computing environments and help others build analytical tools.
• First-rate expository skills and clearly demonstrated intellectual leadership in economic analysis, through prior work and research.
• Strong oral and written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in macroeconomic modeling and project management of macroeconomic frameworks in central banks, ministries of finance, or similar public institutions.
• Prior experience delivering capacity development.
• Experience with macroeconomic and fiscal policy analysis and semi-structural and DSGE modeling in central banks and ministries of finance, particularly in emerging markets and developing countries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in capacity development missions as needed.
• Contribute to coordination and delivery of macroeconomic frameworks technical assistance, including project design and implementation, individual work programs, analytical tools, project work, and team management when sufficiently experienced.
• Manage CDMAP project-management software and prepare briefing notes, back-to-office reports, and technical assistance reports.
• Support longer-term engagements with government institutions focused on macroeconomic frameworks, core models, analytical tools, and forecasting and policy analysis systems.
• Deliver external and internal training as needed.
• Lead the development of capacity-development materials, including tools and models, applications, lectures, case studies, and workshops.
• Lead and participate in Analytics and Development efforts supporting divisional and departmental capacity development.
• Optionally contribute to the ICD/ITD-led Comprehensive Macroeconomic Frameworks Environment (CMFE) initiative.
• Take on other departmental responsibilities as assigned by divisional management.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level