Senior Associate, Communications, Ocean Action Agenda

(temporary position, November 2026 to June 2027) 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.

The Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG
14) – the ocean goal – is inextricably linked to achieving the broader sustainable development agenda. The Forum's Ocean team seats within the CNC Earth Systems Agenda to create innovative platforms at the nexus of science, business and policy and cultivates partnerships across business, government, academia and civil society to fast-track ambitious solutions for ocean health. The Ocean team hosts two key communities to achieve these objectives:
Accelerating Critical Transformations for the Ocean (ACTOcean) supports companies in identifying concrete actions that conserve and restore ocean health while creating long-term economic and social value. It brings businesses together with governments, academia and civil society to share knowledge and scale effective solutions. Friends of Ocean Action (FOA) is a coalition of 91 ocean leaders from business, civil society, international organisations, science and technology.

The members – the Friends – come from business, civil society, international organizations, science and technology and are committed to fast-tracking solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the ocean. The OAA team is recruiting a Senior Associate, Communications who will coordinate and deliver internal and external communications activities in line with agreed communications strategies, and promote the priorities, initiatives, activities and campaigns of our ocean work to demonstrate impact.

The role will be based at the World Economic Forum’s Geneva office, within the Ocean Agenda team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Programming & Strategy, Ocean Agenda. Elsewhere across the Forum, this person will work with colleagues in the ocean team, the nature pillar and broader Centre of Nature and Climate, and the Global Communications Group. Outside of the Forum, this person will work with a broad range of stakeholders, including communications teams of Friends of Ocean Action, external communications agencies and members of the media.

• Implement agreed communications plans and activities in collaboration with Ocean Agenda leadership, particularly on the strategy related to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2027.
• Support ocean project and initiative leads with the design of communications and messaging that increases the impact of their work, and ensure that all ocean project content (key messages, factsheets, websites, etc) is accurate, coherent with ACTOcean and regularly updated.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external contributors to deliver agreed communications products and announcements, ensure accurate and consistent reference to ocean priorities and stories, and leverage digital and outreach opportunities.
• Plan, coordinate and deliver communications activities for key events, milestones and report launches.
• Develop and edit communications materials, including key messages, talking points, presentations and digital content for ACTOcean Draft blogs, articles, media releases for ACTOcean priority news and developments.
• Create simple design collateral such as social media tiles.
• Work with external…