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Job Description: PI staff positions

The Payments, Currencies, and Infrastructure (PI) Division of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) is looking to hire individuals with exceptional experience and motivation in payments, both domestic and cross-border, financial market infrastructures (FMIs), and digital money and assets. This is a three-year term staff appointment which can be converted to open ended, subject to satisfactory performances and budget availability.

The PI division aims to offer concrete and actionable solutions to pressing problems in payments, to promote the safety and soundness of FMIs, and to meet challenges from the rise of digital money and assets. The division strives to offer intellectual leadership, capacity developments to member countries, and surveillance (such as through Financial Sector Assessment Programs, FSAPs). The division also aims to collaborate with, and provide expertise to, other IMF divisions exploring common topics. Work entails close collaboration with external academics, policymakers, industry experts and innovators, as well as international bodies such as the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and the Financial Stability Board (FSB).

Responsibilities

• Leading, and contributing to, innovative and concrete analytical and knowledge products, including papers in refereed journals, that expand the knowledge frontier in payments, FMIs, and digital money and assets. These products will underpin the Fund’s policy recommendations in these areas, also to be provided in capacity developments missions.
• Leading, and contributing to, capacity developments missions to member countries, including onsite and remote missions, training, and regional workshops.
• Regularly contributing to bilateral surveillance missions to member countries, such as through FSAPs or Article IV assessments.
• Participating in, and supporting, international working groups.
• Contributing actively to the division’s debates, interactions with the private sector, and information sharing efforts.

Requirements

• A PhD or an advanced degree in economics, finance, law or other fields relevant to the division’s focus areas.
• At least 4 years of relevant professional experience in working with, or in, central banks and international organizations, with significant responsibilities.
• A mix of demonstrated strategic and analytical thinking, a track record of sound and impactful policymaking, and relevant publications.
• Experience leading projects and teams, and a recognized ability to work in teams.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Strong initiative and organization skills, as well as a passion for the topics and to engage with member countries.
• Experience working in international contexts, engaging with central banks and ministries of finance ideally in the context of capacity development.
• Outstanding team spirit, as well as diplomatic and partnership skills, with a view to building and maintaining relationships across the Fund, with country authorities and other international organizations.

Department:

MCMPI Monetary and Capital Markets Dept. Payments,Currencies & Infrastructure

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.