## Specialized Career Stream Professionals

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Specialized Career Stream Professionals](https://www.imf.org/en/about/recruitment/working-at-the-imf/experienced-specialized-career-stream-professionals)

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- [Markdown version](/en/about/recruitment/working-at-the-imf/experienced-specialized-career-stream-professionals/index.md)
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### Overview
- The IMF seeks highly-skilled, experienced professionals from a broad range of fields to work on unique and complex issues and to support the IMF’s mission of ensuring economic stability and growth.
- The IMF emphasizes bringing new viewpoints and real-world experience from diverse personal histories and environments to its workplace.
- Opportunities are described as varied, complex, and engaging, with work that supports IMF policy, operations, and institutional goals.

### Fields and core responsibilities
- Communications
  - Further the IMF's external and internal communications strategy.
  - Shape key external messages on IMF policy and activities and advise management and staff on message delivery.
  - Monitor and respond to external stakeholders using multiple media and formats.
- Facilities Management Services
  - Ensure delivery of building facilities services at headquarters and other properties.
  - Oversee project management, engineering and architectural planning and design, construction management, operation and maintenance, and real estate management.
  - Responsible for nearly 200 residential and commercial offices around the world.
- Finance and Accounting
  - Execute financial transactions with counterparts such as central banks; maintain financial records and prepare financial statements.
  - Contribute to analysis and formulation of policies on lending facilities, income, investments, liquidity, financial risks and corporate governance.
  - Ensure effective systems and internal controls; conduct safeguards assessments at central banks; control payments, payroll, staff benefits, and allowances.
- Human Resources (HR)
  - Work on compensation and benefits, HR information systems, recruitment and staffing, staff development, and organizational effectiveness.
  - Develop, implement, and manage HR policies and programs; analyze HR metrics; advise department managers on HR issues.
- Information Technology (IT)
  - Maintain capacity and 24/7 availability of computing and communications infrastructure.
  - Protect information security and the IMF’s portfolio of applications; maintain uptime for employees working remotely and across offices in more than 80 countries.
  - Develop programs and strategies aligned with IMF business strategy and manage service delivery for cost-effectiveness and agility.
- Language Services
  - Provide interpretation and translation to facilitate IMF communication with member countries and the public; translate publications into languages other than English.
  - Core languages include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, English, and Spanish.
  - Core staff are supplemented by freelancers and possess subject-matter familiarity with finance and economics.
- Legal
  - Advise management, the Executive Board, and staff on applicable rules of law; prepare decisions and legal instruments for IMF activities.
  - Provide advice on use of IMF resources and surveillance and technical assistance on drafting legislation within IMF core mandates (e.g., central banking, financial sector regulation, AML/CFT and taxation).
- Library and Archives
  - Provide economics and banking-related content and services, a world-class archive, and records management for IMF and World Bank economists.
  - Deliver outreach, training, reference services, innovative library products, and digital preservation methodologies.
- Procurement
  - Provide strategic procurement services to minimize total cost of ownership of goods and services, promote best practices, and achieve productivity improvements.
- Security
  - Protect IMF personnel, visitors, facilities, and information at headquarters and globally.
  - Compile and analyze security data, liaise with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, identify and mitigate risks, respond to emergencies, and manage contract security officers, a 24-hour Global Security Operations Center, and executive protection.
- Transportation and Hospitality
  - Facilitate high-volume international business travel, family relocations, and individual missions; negotiate complex contracts with travel service providers.
  - Oversee catering and audiovisual services; plan conferences and major events involving sensitive protocol; manage contracts and budgets.

### Qualifications, skills, and professional profile
- For many specialized professional roles, a relevant advanced university degree is expected; for some roles, relevant expertise or certifications may be more valued.
- The IMF looks for candidates with:
  - Demonstrated competence in relevant field areas.
  - Versatility and innovation.
  - A positive work attitude.
  - Specific technical skills as required (e.g., technological/data management, policy analysis and development, written, oral and interpersonal communications, relationship building).
- Experience working in international, multicultural environments is an advantage but not a requirement.

### Recruitment, selection, and staffing logistics
- Opportunities will be advertised on the IMF Workday site as vacancies arise.
- The selection process typically includes:
  - A preliminary interview (normally held by phone or video).
  - A panel interview assessing technical and behavioral skills.
  - For most positions, a separate technical or written test pertinent to the task.
- IMF professional staff are drawn from across member country nationalities, forming a highly diverse workforce.

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## References

- [Back to Main Page](https://www.imf.org/en/about/recruitment)
- [Working at the IMF](https://www.imf.org/en/about/recruitment/working-at-the-imf)
- [Life at the IMF](https://www.imf.org/en/about/recruitment/life-at-the-imf)
- [Finding the Right IMF Job](https://www.imf.org/en/about/recruitment/find-the-right-imf-job)

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