Global Leadership Fellow, Acceleration TeamJob category Global Leadership FellowGroup People & CultureLocation GenevaApply Now GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FELLOW, MEMBER OF FORUM ACCELERATION TEAM The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation. Governments, business or the civil society alone cannot sustainably address the challenges of a multi-disciplinary and fast transforming world. The World Economic Forum builds and curates impartial and independent platforms to address the global challenges. You will join the Forum as a member of the Acceleration Team and as a participant of the Global Leadership Fellow Programme. Your role would be to work on projects on issues of regional relevance, industry platforms or public goods amongst others. Your job will combine on-the-job training in roles that vary from knowledge creation to project management to insight generation to community and platform curation. Through the Global Leadership Fellows Programme, you will benefit from rigorous training in Systems Leadership through a customized learning programme established in partnership with leading global universities, and you will have the opportunity to work on your individual development through tailored coaching interventions. As a Global Leadership Fellow, you will learn to manage complexity and ambiguity, work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, become an agile and resilient leader, earn a Master’s in Global Leadership, and interact with some of the world’s most influential individuals and institutions. The programme is co-designed and co-developed in association with some of the world’s foremost experts in leadership, management, organizational behaviour and experiential learning. Fellows are trained at universities and institutions such as CEIBS, Columbia University, INSEAD, London Business School and THNK School of Creative Leadership and Innovation. What your role might look like You will join the World Economic Forum’s Acceleration Team on a contract for 18 months. The Acceleration team will help the organization drive high impact projects across the various teams. The Forum platform approach envisages engagement and community building through impact platforms such as Global Public Goods, Global Industries and Fourth Industrial revolution amongst others. Your responsibilities could include the following • Drive effective project delivery, integration and coordination through a highly collaborative approach and effective resourcing, budgeting, project and process management, communication and reporting• Manage, collaborate and coordinate public and private partnerships in the development, leadership and management of the platform/community, as well as proactively drive insights, conclusions and delivery• Build and maintain positive relationships with high-level stakeholders, such that they feel their interests are understood and respected and that they can achieve value• Manage multiple stakeholder relationships and balance competing priorities• Design and facilitate dialogue between individuals from across all sectors of global society, with a focus on scaling impact and leading to actionable outcomes• Create and produce regularly distributed content via the Forum’s distribution channels• Coordinate across Forum teams and relevant partners to understand priorities and requirements to increase the impact of the Forum’s platforms What we would like from you • Between three and five years of full-time work experience• Master’s degree, from an accredited university, in any discipline• A high level of intellectual curiosity and humility• Excellent verbal and written communication skills• Strong organizational and project management skills• Ability to think conceptually and globally about a broad range of issues• Comfortable communicating with senior leaders across the public and private sectors, strong public speaking skills, ability to influence at all levels.•Experience in writing briefs, capturing information and generating insights• Adaptable, resilient and a risk taker; able to thrive in an ambiguous and dynamic environment• A high degree of energy, enthusiasm and positivity The job would require you to work on projects in our various offices of Geneva, New York, San Francisco, Beijing and Tokyo. The start of the job would be in our headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. What happens after the programme? You are in the driver’s seat of your own development from the day you start at the Forum. You have all the skills and tools to shape the direction of your career and we support you along the way with development opportunities and personal growth. Once you are in the Acceleration team and gain exposure to various projects, where you go within the Forum - or outside - is entirely up to you and the opportunities available. How does the application process work? The online application is open from 23rd July 2019 and the deadline for applying is 15th September 2019. Once you have completed the application form online, you will receive an email acknowledging receipt. We will review your file carefully and come back to you within two weeks to let you know whether you will be proceeding to the next stage of the process.BackShareApply Now
