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The implementation of the 2018 Framework for Enhanced Fund Engagement on Governance is overseen by the Working Group on Governance. This groups consists of senior staff across several Fund departments and is chaired by the heads of FAD, LEG, and SPR. The Senior Governance Officer will work with SPR and other colleagues in area and functional departments on the implementation of the Fund’s governance policy. This role will contribute to the following deliverables (but not limited to):

• Provision of strategic advice to strengthen and ensure a fully evenhanded implementation of the 2018 framework across Fund policies and workstreams.
• Review of the implementation of the governance policy in country reports.
• Oversight of design and development of a database to track governance-related policy advice and implementation in surveillance reports.
• Contribution to analytical macro-structural economics work, such as the review of market regulation governance assessment.
• Coordination of the Fund-wide Governance Taskforce, including drafting notes and talking Points on the implementation of the Governance Framework, as needed.
• Help coordinate the work on Governance in SPR and serve as focal point at the technical level for colleagues in area and functional departments. This also includes the coordination and monitoring of the Governance info site, the representation of the SPR Governance Task Force within the IMF as needed, and the coordination of the Fund-wide Governance Task Force (weekly meetings, etc.)
• Support engagement with partner institutions such as the World Bank or OECD.

Minimum Requirements

Educational development, typically acquired by the completion of a relevant advanced university degree, supplemented by a minimum of four years of relevant progressively responsible work experience, is required. Alternatively, a university degree and fourteen years of professional experience is required.

This vacancy shall be filled by a 12-month contractual appointment. In accordance with the Fund’s new employment rules that took effect on May 1, 2015. Contractual appointments at the IMF are renewable for up to four years of cumulative contractual service, pending incumbent’s performance, budget availability, and continuous business need.

All applicants are expected to include a Statement of Interest as an attachment to the application, which may be used in the screening process for this vacancy.

Contractual employees are ineligible to apply for staff positions that are advertised internally only. This is in alignment with the Fund’s Categories of Employment (CoE) framework EBAP/14/89.

The IMF is committed to achieving a diverse staff, including age, creed, culture, disability, educational background, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, nationality, race, religion and beliefs, and sexual orientation.

Department:

SPRAI Strategy, Policy, and Review Dept. Immediate Office

Hiring For:

A11, A12

The IMF is committed to achieving a diverse staff, including age, creed, culture, disability, educational background, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, nationality, race, religion and beliefs, and sexual orientation. We welcome requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities during the selection process.