Communications Specialist, Foundations

The World Economic Forum is an independent, not-for-profit organization, headquartered in Geneva, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Beijing, and Tokyo.

We are the trusted platform for public-private cooperation where leaders come together to understand global challenges and drive action across sectors and regions. We create spaces where different stakeholders engage openly, build trust, and collaborate to help solve shared global challenges.

Together, The Global Shapers Community and The Forum of Young Global Leaders work towards a more just, sustainable, and equitable world. The Forum of Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers community work in alignment with the World Economic Forum's overall goals of improving the state of the World and support innovative changemakers in driving significant impact through global visibility, knowledge building, leadership development, partnership curation, and collective action.

The role will be based in Geneva, reporting to Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders and working closely with Global Shapers Community and Forum of Young Global Leaders team members - (especially the Event Editorial Lead and Communications Lead). Across the Forum, this individual will work closely with the Global Programming Group and the Global Communications Group teams.

• Prepare communication products for different audiences, including delegation communications, newsletters, participant communications and other editorial materials.
• Lead the editorial calendar and content creation across digital channels, including social media, websites, newsletters and Salesforce Marketing Campaigns, leveraging AI-enabled tools and other emerging digital technologies to enhance content creation, workflow efficiency and audience engagement.
• Develop and execute communications campaigns that showcase the impact, initiatives and leadership of the Young Global Leaders Foundation and the Global Shapers Community.
• Identify, develop and amplify compelling stories that demonstrate the impact of both communities, translating complex initiatives and leadership insights into engaging narratives for diverse audiences.
• Coordinate communications before, during and after major Foundation convenings and milestones, ensuring consistent messaging and timely delivery across channels.
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across the Foundations team, Global Programming Group, Global Communications Group, Centres, Regional Teams and other colleagues to source content, coordinate communications activities and amplify community achievements.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of communications activities across digital channels, using insights and analytics to continuously improve content, audience engagement and communications effectiveness.
• Ensure consistency of messaging, branding and editorial quality across all communications in accordance with the Forum's editorial and brand standards, acting as a custodian of the Forum's, the Young Global Leaders Foundation's and the Global Shapers Community's reputations.
• Support the continuous development of communications approaches by identifying opportunities to strengthen audience engagement, enhance storytelling and improve the effectiveness of communication products and channels.

• Advanced university degree in communications, journalism, media, business, economics or another relevant discipline.
• Hands-on professional experience in communications for a global audience.
• Demonstrated experience developing engaging editorial…