Economic Commission for Africa Chief of Section Economic Affairs Jobs in Ethiopia

Economic Commission for Africa Chief of Section Economic Affairs Jobs in Ethiopia

Within delegated authority, the duties of a Chief of Section (Senior Economic Affairs Officer) will have the following responsibilities:

Economic or sectoral analysis

• Leads or participates in the formulation, organization and management of mandated programmes of economic analysis (incorporating macroeconomic modelling and forecasting), analysis of growth performance (incorporating analysis of pro poor growth policies), fiscal and monetary policy analysis, as well as the formulation of possible economic strategies, policies and actions for adoption by the international community.

• Leads macroeconomic modelling and forecasting through macro-econometric and DSGE models; collecting and analysing country level and regional level data.

• Leads or participates in the identification of new or emerging development issues of potential concern to the international community, particularly those of a regional or global nature, and designs and develops programmes to address them.

• Makes policy proposals.

• Conceptualizes and undertakes rigorous macroeconomic studies on African development through the application of qualitative methods, including econometric and statistical analysis.

• Manages, supervises, and coordinates a team of staff economists, leads and edits studies and reports drafted by them, including coordination of the production of major publications, such as the Economic Report on Africa, as well as documents and other communications, for example results of studies, letters, proposals, website texts and speeches.

• Commissions economic studies and analyses that cannot be undertaken internally and effectively supervises them from inception to completion, ensuring also internal capacity building where relevant.

• Conceives, plans and manages expert group meetings, seminars and similar consultations that contribute to the finalization of the work unit’s outputs.

• Finalizes reports on development for issuance by the United Nations.

• Prepares speeches for senior staff and makes presentations on economic issues for specialist or non-specialist audiences.

• Leads ECA's engagement with key development partners.

• Implements a work program that covers analysis of macroeconomic trends and policy changes; including forecasting of key economic and social indicators, integrating the ECA programme of work of other Divisions into coherent macroeconomic story.

• Implements or supervises the implementation of macroeconomic modelling and forecasting for African economies for the purpose of providing input into policy advice to members states in development planning and management. Intergovernmental support

• Provides direct substantive support on macroeconomic development issues to intergovernmental bodies (such as the General Assembly, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Economic and Social Council, the Trade and Development Board, the regional commissions and the subsidiary bodies of each) by offering strategic advice, giving

technical guidance and assisting in developing a consensus.

• Manages the section’s contribution to the preparation and management of meetings of intergovernmental bodies.

• Represents the section, division and ECA at and collaborates with international, regional and national meetings on development issues, such as UN organizations, the African Union, the African Development Bank, sub regional bodies, multilateral development institutions, partner organizations including those from governments outside Africa, the private sector, foundations, NGOs and civil society participates or assigns participants in inter agency consultations, meetings, and conference related to African development advocating for ECA policies and programs to a range of stakeholders. Technical cooperation

• Develops and maintains relations with senior officials of member governments and provides technical assistance to member states.

• Leads or participates in development projects. Programme support

• Functions as the head of the Section.

• Contributes to the formulation of the medium-term plan, the programme of work and the budget of the Section and participate in the formulation of the organization's overall programme of work and other similar endeavours.

• Attends to various administrative matters concerning the larger organizational unit (Division).

• Manages or participates in divisional projects.

• Identifies and assists with recruiting consultants and leads missions as a senior expert.

• Performs other related duties as required. Other

• Recommends direction and provides training within the division and to clients in member States.

• Participates in or leads divisional projects.

Education

Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in economics macroeconomics, development economics or related field is required.

A first-level university degree in the specified fields in combination with additional two years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in econometrics especially time series and panel data analysis and/or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models is an advantage.

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Economic Commission for Africa Chief of Section Economic Affairs Jobs in Ethiopia

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