• Assisting STA economists in preparing project proposals and reporting for external donors, including budget preparation and monitoring.
• Reviewing, analyzing, and monitoring the capacity development budget implementation and participating in STA’s Medium-Term Budget exercise.
• Providing guidance to STA economists on general project management issues related to donor funded projects, including budget planning and implementation issues and compliance with the IMF’s Results Based Management.
• Promoting the effective use of technology and Fund systems in managing capacity development activities, including the IMF’s Capacity Development Management and Administrative Program (CDMAP).
• Representing STA in interdepartmental working groups.

Requirements:

• Educational development, typically acquired by the completion of an advanced university degree in business, finance, budgeting, accounting, statistics, computer science, or related field, or a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or similar professional certification, or equivalent; or a university degree, or equivalent, supplemented by a minimum of six years of relevant professional experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven project management experience.
• Strong advocacy, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple concurrent assignments in a busy, dynamic environment.
• Excellent collaboration, teamwork and relationship management.
• Analytical skills (including in data analytics), drive for results, a pragmatic and problem-solving mindset, and strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with various financial and budgeting tools and to use IT (including Microsoft Power BI) efficiently to automate/enhance project management processes.