Specialist, Middle East and North , Centre Energy and Materials

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Within the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Energy and Materials (CENMAT), the Emerging Markets Deployment (EMD) Team equips emerging and developing economies with insights, dialogues, and partnerships tailored to advancing their unique energy, materials, and industrial transitions. Reporting to the Emerging Markets Head, this role focuses on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and supports CENMAT’s global activities in the region.

• Deliver energy, industrial and materials‑related Forum projects based on the priorities of business and government stakeholders in the regions, with an initial focus in MENA.
• Support the engagement of the Saudi Arabia Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution through advisory and project management, ensuring alignment with CENMAT priorities.
• Coordinate stakeholder consultations, run periodic analysis and desktop research translating insights into pre‑reads, internal briefings, reports, blogs, and session structures.
• Identify and engage stakeholders in programming and events to strengthen regional activities undertaken by the Centre for Energy and Materials.
• Manage partner retention and acquisition activities to target high‑quality growth, advancing the Forum’s engagement and impact across emerging and developing markets, utilizing Forum tools including Tableau and Salesforce.
• Provide transversal coordination support to the wider EMD Team on regional analysis, calendars/milestones scheduling, and communications for all regional activities.

• Domain Knowledge and
  
  Experience:
  
  Master’s degree in energy, environmental sciences, sustainable development, international relations, public policy, or related fields.
• 4+ years of relevant professional experience in multistakeholder contexts.
• High level familiarity with energy, industrial and materials transition topics in the Middle East (preferred).
• Understanding of local policy context, business etiquette, and dynamics.
• Demonstrated experience addressing energy or industrial transformation challenges in an emerging market context and leading complex multi‑stakeholder projects in the Middle East (considered a plus).
• Purpose‑driven individual motivated by creating impact and delivering value to stakeholders in support of energy, industrial, and materials agendas.
• Core
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to proactively support event planning and coordination, stakeholder engagement and trust building across cultures and sectors.
• High levels of curiosity and learning agility, comfort with ambiguity, and analytical capacity to surface, articulate, contextualize, and action insights in a complex multi‑issue environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Arabic language skills are a plus.
• Self‑starter with a highly collaborative, empathetic approach and a strong commitment to advancing dialogue, cooperation and innovation.
• Ability to communicate to senior‑level stakeholders effectively and independently.

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