Ocean Economy and Finance Lead
vor 3 Monaten
This is a fixed-term contract that will end on July 31, 2027. The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation.
The Forum engages the foremost political, business, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
Why we are recruiting
The Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14) - the ocean goal - has the lowest level of financial investment of any development goal despite being inextricably linked to achieving the broader sustainable development agenda. The private sector and philanthropic capital are not moving at the pace and scale needed in the ocean space to enable its role as an engine for economic growth, social prosperity, and the conservation and restoration of natural capital. A new economic and financial system for the ocean is required to achieve this potential.
The World Economic Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate (CNC) is working on the finance and philanthropic agendas to develop thought and action leadership, with the aim to catalyse impact at speed and scale through multi-stakeholder collaboration to achieve critical goals across the climate and nature agenda.
The Forum's Ocean Action Agenda (OAA) seats within the CNC Nature Pillar 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 OAA team does this by: (1) supporting industry transitions towards nature-positive operations, (2) guiding investments into marine and coastal ecosystems, and (3) fostering an ecosystem of ocean innovation, enabled by financial opportunities.
The
- Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA)_
is a global initiative that looks to build successful philanthropic-public-private collaborations across climate and nature. According to the Climate Works Foundation, out of all global philanthropic giving in 2021, less than 2% goes to climate mitigation. GAEA wants to first work on inspiring the world of giving to increase their annual contributions beyond the annual 2%, and secondly, help inform philanthropists who are the leading corporates and governments wanting to step up if their raise their game, designing a new generation of Philanthropic-Public-Private Partnerships (PPP Partnerships) for people and planet.
Through working closely with the Forum’s exclusive partnerships network, the initiative seeks to help design the enabling environment for a new generation of philanthropic-public-private partnerships (PPP partnerships) for climate and nature, where together we will be producing a series of key deliverables around how philanthropic-public-private collaborations can be designed globally and where to identify the critical areas of intervention in the ocean agenda to understand where PPP partnerships can have the biggest catalysing and unlocking effect.
The OAA and GAEA teams are collaborating to hire a Blue Finance Lead to spearhead the mobilization and direction of the private and philanthropic sectors investments into blue finance opportunities, enabling a wider ocean investment ecosystem.
Reporting Lines & Interactions
This position will sit between the OAA and GAEA teams within the Centre for Nature and Climate, and report to the Head, Ocean Action Agenda with a dotted line to the Head of GAEA. Internally, this position also requires interaction with the OAA, GAEA and other CNC teams, as well as colleagues across the Forum, especially from Philanthropic Organizations, Financial and Monetary Systems, Business Engagement and Partner Development teams, as well as Public Engagement team, Global Programming Group and others as relevant. Externally, you will work closely with Dalio Philanthropies, a key partner for these efforts, as well as with a broad range of international stakeholders and partners focusing on ocean financing, including international organizations, financial institutions, philanthropists, corporates, private investors and more.
Breakdown of main responsibilities
Project management:
- Building the direct link between the Dalio Philanthropies team and the OAA and GAEA teams at the Forum to set the strategic direction of the work to build the foundations and enabling environment to incubate the right Philanthropic-Public-Private Partnerships in the ocean finance space.- Contributing to the development of research and knowledge products, as needed, on how to enable an ocean investment ecosystem to accelerate and scale funding to key ocean solutions.- Identifying communications opportunities to further the blue finance narrative in international sustainability fora and other relevant events, such as the Blue Economy Finance Forum.- Defining a workplan and clear roadmap that leverages opportunities in the ocean space to scale up investments.- Exploring and incubating ideas for potential initiatives that, through p
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