Economist
Nairobi
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: Nairobi
- Grade: 2359
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Occupational Groups:
- Economics
- Closing Date: 2025-09-05
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.
GLOBAL PRACTICE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY
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 Kenya 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 Kenya, based in Nairobi. 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 Kenya EP work program.
• Responsibilities include monitoring and assessment of macroeconomic developments in Kenya and assisting in the preparation and supervision of EP’s work program in Kenya. You will work closely with the Senior Economist and Lead Economist for Kenya 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 Kenya.
• Maintain the macroeconomic and financial database and regularly prepare updated medium-term macroeconomic projections for Kenya.
• Provide substantive inputs to the preparation and dissemination of analytical economic work and reporting on Kenya, including Kenya 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 Kenya 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 Kenya program.
• Engage in policy dialogue with government of Kenya, 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.
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Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.