Resident Advisor in Central Bank Operations

Advises central banks across the Western Balkans and Moldova on modernising monetary and foreign-exchange operations, governance and reporting, while designing regional capacity-development programmes, managing technical missions and experts, coordinating donors, budgets and results, and assuring IMF-consistent advice.

Department: Monetary and Capital Markets Department – Technical Assistance Strategy

• Deliver technical assistance on central-bank operations and governance
• Assess monetary frameworks and market operations
• Recommend legislative, regulatory and operational reforms
• Coordinate technical missions, workshops and peer learning
• Review mission documents and ensure timely outputs to authorities
• Lead annual work planning and budgeting for the regional programme
• Coordinate experts, headquarters backstoppers and other providers

• Graduate degree in economics, finance, accounting or a related field
• At least five years of experience working in a central bank
• Deep understanding of international standards for monetary and foreign-exchange operations
• Strong spoken and written English
• Strong drafting and reporting skills
• Capacity for extensive regional travel

• Rome-based IMF resident-advisor assignment with an initial 12-month term
• Extension is possible, typically up to three to five years, subject to performance and funding