Senior Economist Climate

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• Technical guidance on fiscal strategies for combining climate and macroeconomic progress: While the low-carbon transition can be a major macroeconomic burden for developing countries, it is equally possible to design climate policy such that it enhances conventional macroeconomic policy objectives.  Achieving this integration is, however, technically challenging for country teams. The Senior Economist will provide expert guidance to country teams at achieving this integration, providing technical advice on fiscal policy designs for combining climate and macroeconomic progress. 
• Integration of climate considerations into core macroeconomic assessments: The Senior Economist will provide technical expertise to teams for climate-smart Public Finance Reviews, Country Economic Updates, Growth Diagnostics Reports, and Systematic Country Diagnostics.
• Integration of macroeconomic considerations into central, economy-wide climate strategies: Most developing countries have made binding international commitments to regularly update and submit national climate action plans (NDCs) and many are preparing long-term strategies (LTS). These plans guide unprecedented macrostructural change, but the perspectives of finance ministries are often poorly included. The Senior Economist will advance technical work on supporting finance ministries in the substantial fiscal and macroeconomic implications of NDC and LTS, including the balance of revenue-raising and expenditure interventions, General Equilibrium effects, macrostructural change, and the alignment with broader national development and growth strategies. 
• Pioneering the roll-out of new country-level technical analyses in key climate-fiscal priority areas: The Senior Economist will create best-practice technical examples for colleagues on approaches that reduce conflicts between climate priorities and deteriorating fiscal space, such as revenue-raising approaches like environmental taxation and fuel-subsidy reforms, revenue-neutral systems like Feebates, and measures to quantify and manage climate-related fiscal risks. 
• Integration of climate measures into policy lending: The World Bank seeks to increase the proportion of climate reforms supported through its policy lending (Development Policy Financing). The Senior Economist will support efforts to not only raise the quantity of these measures but also to better integrate climate measures into the core macrostructural, growth and institutional objectives of these loans. The Senior Economist will identify and pioneer approaches how growth-oriented fiscal climate measures can become a more natural component of macroeconomic DPFs.
• Connecting fiscal and financial stability programs on climate macroeconomics: Many central banks are collaborating on climate risks to financial stability.  The ideal candidate would be able to integrate dialogue with central banks, especially on issues that affect fiscal policy, such as the effect of climate-induced financial instability for fiscal risks and debt. 

• Development of analytical tools:  To make it easier for MTI Country Economists to integrate climate considerations into their work programs, to raise technical quality and consistency across projects, the Senior Economist will be co-lead efforts with peers from across Regions to develop and improve analytical tools, diagnostics, and models. 
• Trainings: The Senior Economist will be developing and rolling out trainings on climate-macro issues for Country Economists and country clients. 
• Global knowledge products: The Senior Economist will engage in global knowledge products to push the global frontier on the core unsolved analytical climate-macro issues constraining MTI.

• A Ph.D. in economics or a closely related discipline, with considerable experience on climate and development is strongly preferred. The minimum requirement to apply is a master’s degree with 8 years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong analytical skills in climate economics and in using models of fiscal policy.
• A proven track record of publications in the macroeconomics and fiscal policy of climate change.
• Operational experience in Development Policy Operations and other lending projects that include environmental fiscal reforms as a component of wider reform would be an asset.
• A track record of outstanding report writing and communications skills, including the ability to present complex analyses to non-specialist audiences. 

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