Economist

The Economic Policy (EP) Global Practice leads the World Bank Group’s dialogue and engagement with clients in macroeconomics, fiscal policy, trade, competition and investment. EP links the macroeconomic dialogue with programs focused on expanding the role of the private sector in economic development. In our day-to-day engagement with countries, we support Ministries of Finance, Trade, Economy and Planning in their pursuit of reform agendas conducive to strengthening inclusive growth led by the private sector. https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/mti-gp

The EP Team in Zimbabwe is responsible for macro-economic analysis, policy dialogue, technical advice and capacity building support in the areas of macro-economic and fiscal reforms and growth policies. In addition to its regular economic monitoring mandate, the team manages a rich work program consisting of a wide variety of programmatic analytic work programs. These tasks are cross-sectoral in nature and integral to the policy dialogue of the country program. In addition there is work on supporting IDA’s sustainable development finance policy and debt sustainability and debt management.

DUTIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

We are looking for a local Economist to work on Zimbabwe, based in Harare. You will be a core team member of the EP East Africa team and will report to the Practice Manager (EAEM1). In the day to day work you will contribute mostly to the Zimbabwe EP work program. Responsibilities include monitoring and assessment of macroeconomic developments in Zimbabwe and assisting in the preparation and supervision of EP’s work program in Zimbabwe. You will work closely with the Senior Economist and Lead Economist for Zimbabwe to perform the following activities:
• Lead and/or contribute to the macroeconomic monitoring and the analysis on the country's economic, financial and sector issues. Prepare briefs and just-in-time analytical notes.
• Use/run economic/financial models and toolkits using existing software packages, or Bank's own models, to assess economic development and inform policy advice.
• If needed contribute to the design, preparation and implementation of lending operations in Zimbabwe.
• Maintain the macroeconomic and financial database and regularly prepare updated medium-term macroeconomic projections for Zimbabwe.
• Provide substantive inputs to the preparation and dissemination of analytical economic work and reporting on Zimbabwe, including Zimbabwe Economic Update, Country Climate and Development Report, Country Economic Memorandum, Public Finance Reviews, and the Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO); and participate in the preparation of the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA).
• Contribute to the monitoring of the Performance and Policy Actions in Zimbabwe under IDA’s Sustainable Development Finance Policy and overall debt development.
• Support the Country Management Unit (CMU) in the implementation of the World Bank's Zimbabwe program.
• Engage in policy dialogue with government of Zimbabwe, develop and maintain active engagement with other development partners, private sector, local think tanks and researchers, in coordination with a range of World Bank sectoral teams.