Special Appointee - MCD

International Monetary Fund • Washington DC, DC

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About The Position

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 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.

Requirements

• Analysis, policy, and program design
• Capacity development
• Analysis of fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policies
• Examination of macro-financial linkages
• Addressing issues of good economic governance
• Examination of fiscal and external debt sustainability
• Developing approaches to promoting regional and broader trade liberalization
• Systematic monitoring and assessment of economic and related political developments
• Collecting and analyzing data for assigned economic sectors
• Developing and maintaining a comprehensive database
• Maintaining contacts with counterparts in functional departments, the World Bank Group, and other organizations
• Developing and maintaining effective relations with counterparts in member countries
• Monitoring, interpreting, and initiating reports on major economic and political developments
• Developing targets and policy measures
• Formulation of the staff position on economic policies
• Blending theoretical framework with policy options and constraints in country-specific context

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed