• Job Description

  Req#: req23360

  Senior Economist, Tax Policy and Administration

  Job #:	req23360
  Organization:	World Bank
  Sector:	Macroeconomics
  Grade:	GG
  Term Duration:	4 years 0 months
  Recruitment Type:	International Recruitment
  Location:	Washington, DC,United States
  Required Language(s):	English
  Preferred Language(s):
  Closing Date:	7/14/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

  Description

  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, www.worldbank.org
  
  The South Asia Region is at a crucial stage of development. Rapid economic growth, driven by urbanization and demographic dividend, has brought down poverty rates, but severe forms of exclusion and disparities based on ethnicity, caste, and gender remain. Some economies are also facing macroeconomic management challenges. Rapid growth has also come with congestion and pollution in cities. South Asia is more than other regions affected by changes in temperature and extreme weather event. Additional challenges are that South Asia is underperforming in exports, has large informal sectors and low female labor force participation rates. All these challenges must be addressed to secure rapid growth in coming decades. More information on https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/sar

  Macroeconomics, Public Sector, Trade and Investment (MPSTI) staff work across a wide array of Bank instruments and often lead or participate in the preparation of Strategic Country Diagnostics, as well as other analytic tools such as Country Economic Memorandum, Climate Change Development Report, Country Private Sector Diagnostics, Public Expenditure Reviews, and just-in-time advisory notes on economic policy and public sector management issues. Knowledge and learning is a central part of MPSTI’s work focused on 14 thematic areas: (a) macroeconomics; (b) fiscal policy; (c) tax policy and administration; (d) economic management in resource rich environments; (e) macroeconomic modelling & statistics; (f) trade and regional integration; (g) competition policy; (h) public investment management; (i) business regulation, (j) growth; (k) public sector management, (l) state owned enterprise management; (m) jobs and economic transformation; and (n) political economy analysis.

  Duties and Accountabilities :

  This is a regional position for a Senior Economist, Tax Policy and Administration. The staff will lead, supervise, and support the units work program on taxation including public expenditure reviews, domestic revenue mobilization, fiscal federalism, public investment management and quality of spending, fiscal policy and tax institutions, and related work on tax and revenue management across countries covered by the unit. In this regard, the Senior Economist will lead and be a team member of development policy operations, analytical and advisory programs, technical assistance, and results-based operations across the unit across the region. She/he will also be part of cross-GP teams with a focus on institutional reform and transformation.

  The selected candidate will be expected to undertake the following tasks:

  • Participate actively in the SAR EFI program including by providing support to analytical tasks and lending operations with a focus on tax policy and tax administration.
  • Contribute as team member and lead components of a broad range of ASA work and financing operations, including integrative and cross-cutting work such as tax and fiscal policy for green growth and human capital development.
  • Develop tailor made solutions on issues related to tax policy and tax administration and other fiscal issues, including through the production of working papers as well as the dissemination of knowledge through learning activities.
  • Work with country teams on tax gap analysis, tax expenditure analysis, and tax incidence analysis.
  • Prepare a tax policy and administration review for each country within the unit in collaboration with country teams and counterparts.
  • Contribute to internal and external partnerships related to tax, in particular with the Tax and Fiscal Policy Global Team, and IMF country teams.
  • Lead and contribute to technical inputs to analytic work and advisory services, and/or supervising the preparation of analytical products (ASA) and other relevant technical reports to clients in close collaboration with the CMUs, Program Leaders, relevant Task Team Leaders and sector experts within and outside the Bank.
  • Support the Practice Manager in meeting work program objectives and deliverables, coaching staff, contribute to the development of the overall World Bank and EFI strategies and work program of the unit, and the region, and oversee its implementation as appropriate
  

  Selection Criteria

  The successful candidate will be a professional with extensive experience on analytical, advisory and operational work in economics, fiscal management, or macroeconomic issues, as relevant for this position.
  
  Technical Skills and Experience:
  • Minimum Master’s degree, in Economics, Taxation, Public Policy/Administration, Business Administration, International Development, Law or equivalent.
  • At least eight years of work experience covering tax policy and tax administration. Experience of work in the public sector on taxation would be preferred.
  • Authored or co-authored reports/publications showing analysis of tax policy and tax administration on topics such as: a) tax macro analysis, b) tax incentives analysis, c) tax expenditure estimation, d) tax system reform, e) tax administration reform, etc.
  • Built or used tax models for policy work, such as: a) tax macro models such as OLG models, macroeconomic growth models, b) microsimulation models, c) tax gap models, or d) Marginal Effective Tax Rate (METR) models.
  • Experience with broader macro-fiscal reform and integration of tax issues in that context.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the capacity to work in teams across organizational boundaries within a multi-cultural environment.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English is required.
  • Demonstrated analytical and operational skills in public sector economic and institutional reforms and practical experience working with different Bank instruments (e.g. Investment Project Financing, Program for Results, Development Policy Operations and Trust Funds) in the design and delivery of projects and/or studies in areas key to tax reforms in developing countries.
  
  Note: Applicants must be able to travel frequently.
  

  World Bank Group Core Competencies

  The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

  We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

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