What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Economics Principal Advisor/ Regional Economics Principal Technical Leader position at The Economist?
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The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
We are looking for an experienced and knowledgeable economist who will help us change people lives in Latin America and the Caribbean sharing applied knowledge and leverage the impact of our knowledge products to strengthen our operations.
You will work with the Country Department Central America, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CID), responsible for the strategic, programmatic, and operational relationship with Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
As a part of the Vice-Presidency for Countries, the CID Department main functions are to monitor macroeconomic developments in the region, lead the policy dialogue with borrowing countries, determine the Bank’s financial exposure in the region and formulate country strategies. To contribute to these goals, the selected candidate will address a wide range of challenging policy issues that span across different branches of economics, assess policy options, and prepare reports for Senior Management. You will have an outstanding professional background, strong technical competencies, excellent communications skills, proven experience in dealing with country authorities, a clear understanding of political economy issues, a track-record of generating and disseminating applied knowledge, and supervisory capacity. In this position, you will report to the CID Department General Manager.
What you’ll do
- Articulate technically sound and compelling analyses for the formulation, monitoring, and evaluation of IDB country strategies, presenting relevant data and arguments in support of position.
- Lead a team of economists to perform advanced macroeconomic analysis in the region, contribute to the design of operations and support the country dialogue, using innovative techniques assuring high standards of technical quality of the knowledge products.
- Develop and oversee the knowledge program of analytical studies of CID, focused on knowledge applied to IDB Group operations. Ensure that the knowledge products are of technical high quality and properly aligned to management objectives.
- Lead the dissemination of such knowledge products within and outside the IDB Group, in a broad and effective manner, identifying target audiences and appropriate communication media to reinforce IDB positioning in the region.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues within the IDB Group, to coordinate the economic programs, knowledge products, and initiatives to bring to bear their strategic development impact and optimize information exchange and the adoption of good practice.
- Identify needs and interests of clients and partners and work to align them with the IDB’s economic strategy and goals.
- Represent CID in the Bank's Studies, Publications Committee and Knowledge Advisory Committee.
- Coordinate with the Department of Research and Chief Economist (RES) to work on joint knowledge products.
- Interact with the Vice Presidency of Countries (VPC) and other departments to collaborate on knowledge generation, ensuring the development of knowledge that extends beyond CID while incorporating best practices and insights from other regions.
- Ensure coherence and alignment between knowledge generation and regional programs under the purview of CID.
- Coordinate closely with VPS, IDB Invest, and IDB Lab to align knowledge products with strategic priorities and operational needs, ensuring integrated approaches to development challenges.
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