Lead, Event Editorial, Global Programming

vor 2 Monaten

Genf, Genf, Schweiz World Economic Forum Vollzeit

About the Role

The World Economic Forum is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead the development of its global events, ensuring that they meet the highest standards of excellence and align with the organization's strategic priorities.

Main Responsibilities

  • Develop and socialize programme design frameworks, structures, processes, and tools to support the next era of the Forum's strategic direction.
  • Maintain an overarching view of the Forum's Centres and community priorities and identify opportunities for cross-centre alignment on horizontal topics in the context of events and beyond.
  • Lead collaboration with thematic Centres as well as other teams across the house to scan emerging issues, identify relevant experts, and shape a programme that delivers on Forum's strategic priorities.
  • Lead programme development and speaker selection processes for institutional events, balancing impact priorities, partnership goals, inclusion targets, and audience interests.
  • Support live session delivery for virtual and in-person events.
  • Build and maintain relevant event programme development and editorial processes, templates and databases.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant professional experience, including hands-on experience with programme development for large events with a global audience, ideally engaging business, government, and non-profit audiences in international environments.
  • Strong writing skills and demonstrated ability to identify, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate complex issues to diverse audiences.
  • Advanced university degree in business, media, communications, economics, journalism, or other relevant fields.
  • Proven track record of outstanding project management and coordination, and negotiation skills.
  • A problem-solving mindset and proven experience at identifying the strategically salient questions and marshalling the data required to answer them.
  • Excellent team collaboration, relationship development, and operational skills.
  • Proven experience thriving in a multicultural work setting that is highly collaborative, and fast-paced; flexibility and the ability to embrace ambiguity is a must.
  • Fluency in English, with excellent written, digital and verbal communication skills; knowledge of other languages would be an asset.
  • Mastery of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word); experience with Salesforce a significant plus

Why Work at the World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum believes that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to improve the state of the world by building awareness and cooperation, shaping mindsets and agendas, and driving collective action. Join us and become a driver for positive change

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