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  "title": "Compensation and Benefits",
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  "summary": "Our package is extensive, adjusting to reflect appointment types and personal circumstances.",
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      "heading": "Salary benchmarking and career progression",
      "content": "- Salaries are benchmarked against several comparator markets from around the world to ensure they are competitive.\n- Salaries will grow as you progress in your career."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Medical coverage and health benefits",
      "content": "- Medical Benefits Plan provides flexible and comprehensive global coverage for you and your family."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Leave, flexible work arrangements, and parental supports",
      "content": "- Annual leave initially includes up to 26 annual leave days per year, increasing to 30 days with long service.\n- Sick leave: 15 days of sick leave per year.\n- You may be eligible for parental leave.\n- Flexible work arrangements may include working from home (teleworking), flexible start dates, and compressed work schedules."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Retirement and savings",
      "content": "- Retirement benefits include a generous final salary, defined contribution pension plan, and voluntary retirement savings plans for all employees."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Family supports and expatriate assistance",
      "content": "- Support for families includes the IMF Spouse and Partner Association, which provides a support network for partners offering:\n  - Advice on living and working in the area.\n  - Career services and personal development.\n  - English language courses.\n  - A school counselor to help children settle into school.\n  - An onsite childcare center.\n- Expatriate benefits for staff who are not from the U.S. include support for regular visits home and child education."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Appointment types, durations, and contractual limits",
      "content": "- Staff appointments are normally for an initial term of up to three years.\n- Subject to performance indicating potential for a successful IMF career and considering institutional needs, staff may be offered either:\n  - An extension to their term appointment, or\n  - Appointment to a regular staff position (an indefinite appointment).\n- Contractual positions may vary in initial appointment length but can be extended based on need, for up to a cumulative maximum of four years.\n- Eligibility for certain contractual benefits may vary by length of service and position type."
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    "Annual leave initially includes up to 26 annual leave days per year, increasing to 30 days with long service.",
    "Sick leave: 15 days of sick leave per year.",
    "You may be eligible for parental leave.",
    "Flexible work arrangements may include working from home (teleworking), flexible start dates, and compressed work schedules.",
    "Retirement benefits include a generous final salary, defined contribution pension plan, and voluntary retirement savings plans for all employees.",
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    "Expatriate benefits for staff who are not from the U.S. include support for regular visits home and child education.",
    "Staff appointments are normally for an initial term of up to three years.",
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    "Contractual positions may vary in initial appointment length but can be extended based on need, for up to a cumulative maximum of four years.",
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