International Monetary Fund

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Where it posts vacancies

www.imf.org/en/About/Recruitment

What it hires

• Macroeconomists (the overwhelming majority of professional hiring; PhD standard)
• Fiscal, monetary and financial-sector specialists
• Lawyers (sovereign finance, central banking law) and statisticians in small numbers

Contract types

Staff appointments under the IMF's own system; contractual (fixed-term) appointments; the Economist Program for early-career economists.

Headquarters and footprint

Washington DC HQ; small resident-representative offices in member countries; work is mission-travel-based rather than field-office-based.

Before you apply

Portals, contract names and recruitment routes change. Verify against the organisation’s own pages before relying on anything here: www.imf.org/en/About/Recruitment. This entry was last verified 2026-06.

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