Resident Macroeconomic Advisor

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About the Organization

The IMF works to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty. Our work on the macroeconomic benefits of challenges such as empowering women, modernizing the global trading system, wage inequity, and climate change, provides new ideas to safeguard the stability of the international monetary and financial system and addresses the world's most pressing macroeconomic and financial issues . Our 2,800 dedicated employees are leaders in their fields and collaborate to address the needs of our members and make a meaningful, positive difference to lives across the globe.  

Job Responsibilities

• The selected candidate will have the primary responsibility over his/her workplan, coordinating strategically and communicating regularly with ICD delivery division managers and SARTTAC managers to ensure timely and effective delivery.
• Preparing and delivering lectures, case studies, hands-on workshops, and other materials for ICD training courses at SARTTAC, in collaboration with staff at IMF HQ and with short-term experts reporting to ICD. The candidate should be prepared to cover most aspects of the training curriculum of ICD, which includes all aspects of macroeconomic diagnostics and forecasting, with a macro-fiscal, macro-monetary, and macro-financial focus. Awareness of transformational issues in CD—i.e., climate, gender and inclusivity, and digitalization and big data—and inclusion of them into macroeconomic training is also desirable.
• Liaising and collaborating with other resident advisors in SARTTAC and other regional capacity development centers of the IMF to leverage support, as desirable, in the design and delivery of CD.
• Supporting the Director of SARTTAC with contributions to the corporate activities of the Center such as annual workplans and updates, quarterly bulletins, and annual reports on SARTTAC activities, and selected outreach events, in keeping with the Center’s sound governance.
• Time permitting and depending on interest, the LTX may also contribute to, or even lead, work on TA projects aimed at improving member countries’ capacity in developing frameworks, models, and processes used to incorporate this into policy decision-making, in collaboration with ICD delivery divisions’ staff and short-term experts.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

Candidates should have a Ph.D. or Master’s degree in economics or finance, and experience in delivering training courses. Candidates should have strong analytical skills in macroeconomics and finance, and at least four years of practical experience analyzing economic issues and providing policy advice. Candidates should have practical experience in delivering training, preferably in macro-forecasting and modeling. Experience in providing advanced training to public sector officials in applied macroeconomic policy issues, particularly monetary, fiscal, and/or financial policies and familiarity with the IMF’s financial programming framework and with macro-econometric forecasting tools are highly desirable, as is an ability to connect theory to practice. Excellent teaching and communication skills in English are essential, as are good organization and planning skills, with project management experience a plus. Furthermore, a good research record and/or policymaking experience are also desirable. An understanding of the economies of South Asia would be a plus. Candidates should also have a working knowledge or the capacity to learn the IMF’s results-based framework for the management (RBM) of CD and the Capacity Development Management and Administration Program (CDMAP). Applicants must be willing to live in New Delhi and travel within the South Asia region.

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