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Economist

Job #: req30845

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Economics

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 4 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Suva,Fiji

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 1/3/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you wish to construct a profession that’s really worthwhile? Working on the World Bank supplies a novel alternative for you to assist our purchasers remedy their biggest growth challenges. The World Bank is likely one of the largest sources of funding and data for creating international locations; a novel international partnership of 5 establishments devoted to ending excessive poverty, growing shared prosperity, and selling sustainable growth. With 189 member international locations and greater than 120 places of work worldwide, we work with private and non-private sector companions, investing in groundbreaking tasks and utilizing information, analysis, and know-how to develop options to essentially the most pressing international challenges. For extra info, go to www.worldbank.org.

Regional context

We want the best expertise centered on our area with the intention to harness the potential and innovation taking place throughout the continent. The East Asia and the Pacific Region (EAP) has made the quickest progress in financial development and poverty discount of any area within the final quarter-century!

Despite this progress, the EAP area nonetheless faces large growth challenges. A big portion of the area’s inhabitants stays weak to earnings shocks, together with from a world financial slowdown, altering international and regional value-chains, and climate-related dangers.

Are you able to make an affect? We are trying for devoted professionals to affix our revolutionary and various crew to enhance folks’s lives and assist international locations construct again higher after COVID!

East Asia and the Pacific Region: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eap

Roles and Responsibilities

We are looking for to recruit a extremely certified Locally Recruited Country Economist to cowl Samoa and to be based mostly in Suva, Fiji. The splendid candidate has a tutorial {and professional} background with a concentrate on macroeconomic, development and monetary points.

The Macroeconomic Trade and Investment (MTI) Team—which is an integral part of the Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) Practice Group —is concerned in coverage recommendation, analytical work, non-lending technical help and lending actions on a variety of matters: financial development, public finance administration, macro monitoring, commerce and competitiveness and personal sector growth. The crew collaborates carefully with different Global Practices and the Country Management Unit (CMU) to combine financial evaluation within the wider portfolio of the Bank’s lending, analytical and advisory work.

MTI has a big crew of about 10 nation economists overlaying the Pacific from completely different places within the EAP area, together with Fiji, Sydney, Port Moresby, Honiara, Jakarta and Bangkok. The MTI Practice Manager is predicated in Bangkok. The EFI Program Leader is predicated in Sydney. The Suva workplace has a complete of three MTI employees, together with this place.

The Samoa MTI work program consists of: (1) Development Policy Financing; (2) Growth and Jobs Diagnostics; (3) Sustainable Development Finance Policy (SDFP) implementation; (4) Country Economist Services; (5) Pacific Economic Update.

Selection Criteria

• Minimum of a Master’s diploma in Economics with 5 years of related skilled expertise (a accomplished PhD is equal to three years of related skilled expertise).
• Technical abilities on macro-fiscal and development points and a confirmed monitor file in delivering prime quality and technically refined analytical work. ehUeMLd DC0ZEe
• Operational and coverage dialogue abilities, as evidenced by a confirmed monitor file in delivering prime quality Development Policy Operations.
• Integrative abilities with the intention to assist the Country Management Unit (CMU) in articulating its strategic considering on financial development and poverty discount and to articulate a coherent coverage dialogue with the authorities.
• Proven sense of initiative, outcomes orientation, teamwork and management qualities, and skill to work successfully throughout sectors.
• Communication abilities, together with the flexibility to talk persuasively and to current concepts clearly and concisely with senior authorities.

The World Bank Group is dedicated to attaining range by way of gender, nationality, tradition and academic background. Individuals with disabilities are equally inspired to apply. All functions will probably be handled within the strictest confidentiality.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group gives complete advantages, together with a retirement plan; medical, life and incapacity insurance coverage; and paid go away, together with parental go away, in addition to affordable lodging for people with disabilities.

We are proud to be an equal alternative and inclusive employer with a devoted and dedicated workforce, and don’t discriminate based mostly on gender, gender id, faith, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or incapacity.

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