Division Chief/Assistant Director (Publishing Division) - COMPD

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The Communications Department (COM) is the IMF’s center for strategic communication. It develops and coordinates the IMF’s external and internal communications strategy, shapes key messages, advises IMF Management and staff on how best to convey those messages, and monitors and responds to what is being said and written about the institution and its activity.

COM is looking for a strategic, people, and operational leader to head its Publishing Division (COMPD). COMPD produces a wide range of publications, manages the IMF’s public website (IMF.org) and digital online library (eLibrary.IMF.org), and oversees marketing and distribution of IMF metadata and content through various digital platforms and scholarly and commercial publishing channels. COMPD strives to ensure that Fund publications and digital content are aligned with strategic institutional priorities and support the Fund’s larger outreach efforts. Working closely with staff in other departments, the division helps to promote knowledge sharing with both internal and external audiences, including for the preparation, release, and supporting outreach of publications and online content under tight deadlines. COMPD also tracks distribution and use of IMF publications and online content in various digital and print formats.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the general supervision of COM’s Director and other senior staff,  this person will be responsible for the following activities, working in collaboration with others in the Communications Department, with colleagues throughout the institution, and with IMF vendors.

• Manage the Publishing Division team, with outstanding people leadership skills.
• Lead the strategy, work plan, and operations of the Publishing Division, setting clear priorities while remaining agile to evolving needs.
• Advise the Director and senior COM leadership on the strategy and direction of the IMF publications program, the IMF’s public website (IMF.org) and eLibrary site (elibrary.IMF.org), and on the divisional work program.
• Collaborate closely within COM and with other IMF departments and stakeholders to strengthen the role, awareness, and governance of institutional publishing and digital content distribution and dissemination.
• Lead modernization, innovation, and change to continually align the institution’s publications program and external digital presence with IMF’s strategic priorities.
• Coordinate COMPD’s work with authoring departments, other COM and Fund staff, and outside vendors to manage the IMF’s publication pipeline and coordinate publications’ preparation, release, and supporting outreach under tight deadlines.
• Oversee relationship with, and work of, internal and external service providers, including to manage resources to ensure effective implementation of publishing and digital projects, engage with implementation partners, and provide guidance and input to all parties.
• Manage the IMF institutional budget for the publications program.
• Contribute to various high-level IT policy and funding bodies, effectively representing and advocating for COM’s publishing and digital content vision and work.
• As a member of COM’s management team, substantively contribute to broader departmental strategy and operational direction.
• Continue to improve the discoverability, presentation, and usability of the Fund’s publications and online digital platforms and strengthen digital metrics and impact reporting, with a view to applying lessons learned and growing the reach of the IMF’s messages.

Minimum qualifications

In addition to the competencies outlined in the Fund’s Leadership Framework, the successful candidate will have an advanced university degree in Economics or related subject, supplemented by a minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience, with supervisory/managerial experience.

​The ideal candidate will be a communications expert with in-depth knowledge of the IMF’s mission, priorities, and policy work as well as of global economic and financial issues. She/he will have proven and extensive experience in the rapidly evolving publishing and digital communications fields. She/he will be a highly strategic thinker with the ability to execute very effective operatio