The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) has vacancies in the Country Surveillance Group for Economist/Senior Economist.

The successful candidate will be assigned as economist in country surveillance teams and report to the Surveillance Group Heads who are the Mission Chiefs for the countries. The candidate should have good understanding of macroeconomics and international finance and be knowledgeable about ASEAN+3 economies. Strong communication and coordination skills are also essential.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist his/her Group Head in the planning and implementation of the group’s work plan in support of AMRO’s overall goals, ensuring efficiency, relevance, and impact of AMRO’s surveillance work.
• Be responsible for conducting surveillance of countries including:
  • collecting data, monitoring, and analyzing developments in the countries, at both the country and sectoral levels.
  • identifying risks and vulnerabilities facing the countries and formulating policy recommendations to address them.
  • drafting briefing notes for annual consultation and interim visits and for management meetings with authorities and other institutions.
  • developing work programs, participating in annual consultations and interim visits, and preparing initial drafts of country consultation reports.
  • providing regular updates to his/her Group Heads and senior management on developments and issues in the countries.
  • conducting research on economic issues pertaining to the countries.
• Contribute to country, cross-country, sectoral and region-wide surveillance activities of other ASEAN+3 economies as assigned.
• Collect and manage relevant data from the ASEAN+3 (ASEAN, China, Japan, and Korea) authorities, IFIs, private sector, and other data sources.
• Supervise and guide research analysts and associates.
• Maintain good relations with the authorities and liaise with authorities on relevant surveillance matters between AMRO and the countries, as well other member economies.
• Assist Group Heads in dealing various related issues of strategic importance.

Institutional Responsibilities

• Participate in any institution-wide activity, such as AMRO’s internal committees or task forces, as assigned.
• Facilitate training/seminars/workshops to disseminate knowledge to AMRO staff and external stakeholders.
• Perform any other duty as may be reasonably required in furtherance of AMRO’s overall goals.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

• A PhD or Master’s degree in economics, or related fields, from a reputable university.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience and knowledge in economics and/or finance, including macro-financial modelling and policy.
• Strong analytical ability and capacity to conduct rigorous research.
• High level of familiarity with ASEAN+3 economies and policies; experience in macroeconomic, financial, and fiscal sector surveillance, and empirical research would be a significant advantage.
• Strong familiarity with key third-party economics and finance databases, such as Bloomberg, CEIC, Haver Analytics, Refinitiv (Datastream), would be an advantage.
• Proficiency in software applications such as Microsoft Office and high proficiency in the application of econometric packages, such as EViews, MATLAB, Stata; proficiency in programming languages such as Python and R would be beneficial.
• Strong motivation and initiative, and results oriented, and accountable for the accuracy of both data and information.
• Strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills to interact effectively with staff and officials of diverse cultural backgrounds at all levels.
• High proficiency in written and spoken English; (proficiency in local languages would be an advantage).

Applicants should submit the following to amro.recruitment@amro-asia.org :

(1) An updated CV.

(2) A brief description of all relevant academic qualifications and work experience.

(3) The earliest possible start date.

(4) Referee details.

The last day to apply to this position is February 15, 2023.

The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) has vacancies in the Surveillance Group for Research Analyst/Research Assistant (Full-time or Part-time).

The Research Analyst/Research Assistant will, under the supervision of the Financial Surveillance Group Head, be responsible for supporting various macro-financial surveillance and research activities to help identify risks in ASEAN+3 economies and design police advice. The successful candidate would have the opportunity to grow professionally and develop new technical skills.

Main responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Contributing to the preparation of AMRO studies and reports by providing and analysing relevant data and statistics using various analytical tools, summarizing the results and findings, and providing any other necessary support required by the authors of those reports;
• Contributing to all aspects of the production of AMRO’s flagship publication, the ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook, as directed by supervisors;
• Supporting and generating data for the multilateral team by keeping macroeconomic data updated and accessible by economists;
• Developing document and electronic templates and automated dashboards to monitor financial market and economic indicators, in Excel, Tableau, and other visualization tools;
• Helping to migrate economists’ data from one database source to another, as required;
• Helping to set up, develop and maintain research datasets;
• Monitoring and reviewing AMRO’s information feed subscriptions and usage;
• Providing all other surveillance-related administrative and research support as directed by supervisors; and
• Undertaking any other task as directed by supervisors.

The candidate should possess:

• A degree in business, economics, international finance, public policy, statistics, or related fields from a reputable university; a postgraduate degree would be a plus;
• Relevant work experience and knowledge would be a plus, preferably related to financial market and economic research, and database and content management;
• Knowledge of and experience with third-party mainstream economic and financial markets databases such as Bloomberg, CEIC, Haver Analytics, Refinitiv, etc.; experience working with Asian economics and finance data would be an advantage;
• Strong proficiency in software applications such as Microsoft Office (Excel and Powerpoint);
• Strong data management and visualization skills;
• Familiarity with econometric packages such as EViews, Stata is essential; experience with visualization tools, such as Tableau would be a plus; ability to program in languages such as Matlab, R, Python, SQL would be a significant advantage; willingness and ability to quickly learn new tools and programming languages are mandatory.
• Strong motivation and initiative; strong multitasking skills; must be results oriented and accountable for the accuracy of both data and information;
• Strong teamwork and communication skills to interact effectively with staff (and officials) of diverse cultural backgrounds at all levels;
• High proficiency in written and spoken English.

Applicants should submit the following to amro.recruitment@amro-asia.org :

(1) An updated CV.

(2) A brief description of all relevant academic qualifications and work experience.

(3) The earliest possible start date.

(4) Referee details.