Insight Lead, Skills Initiatives

Please Note: This role requires the ability to work on site 3 days per week per company policy._
- Maternity cover, from October 2025 to May 2026, Geneva based_

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 Centre for the New Economy and Society provides a trusted platform to build prosperous, innovative and resilient economies that create opportunities for all. It enables leaders to understand, shape and navigate a new social and economic context through insights, action and dialogue for:
- Fostering economic growth and risk preparedness- Investing in talent and human capital- Promoting equity and inclusion

The Centre has over 40 staff in a mix of permanent, grant-funded and fellow roles working across these themes. Its work and methods are enabled by functional practices that encompass Impact Design and Coordination as well as Community Engagement activities. The Centre also hosts the institutional team responsible for embedding experts, universities, think tanks and Global Future Councils across the Forum's work.

We are hiring a maternity cover Insights Lead to help strengthen the World Economic Forum’s Reskilling Revolution initiative.

Reporting lines and interactions

The Insights Lead will report to the Manager of the Reskilling Revolution and Skills Initiatives and will work closely with other staff across the Centre and the organization to deliver outcomes efficiently.

Main responsibilities:
- Support the annual impact communication strategy for the Reskilling Revolution Initiative. Contributions will include developing key narratives and impact stories in collaboration with the communication team, disseminating the impact survey to partners, ensuring sufficient data collection, supporting data analysis and drafting relevant materials for communication.- Support the development of key sessions and meetings related to the Reskilling Revolution Initiative, including drafting key talking points and presentations on insights and trends related to education, skills and learning. This includes the development of key sessions to be held at the Annual Meeting in Davos.- Support the development of the Future of Jobs survey in collaboration with colleagues in the Mission on Work, Wages and Job Creation.- Lead the development of the New Economy Skills Series instalment on Green Skills.- Support the centre-wide development of an integrated data dashboard.- Support the development of additional insights on education, skills and learning, as needed.- Strong knowledge on the education, skills and learning agenda, relationships and experience with public-private collaboration on this thematic and keeping abreast of issues relevant to this portfolio and to the borader socio-economic agenda.- Focused approach to applied research, analyzing, synthesizing and leveraging quantitative and qualitative data.- Fluency in the use of internal and external digital platforms and tools for data analysis, activity design and project management.- Formulating strategies and workplans for activities within their thematic portfolio of work, integrating multiple views.- Agile coordination and management of insight methodologies, benchmarking frameworks, and data-based narratives within their thematic portfolio of work.- Outstanding writing and editorial skills; analyzing and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative data in support of insight development; data visualization.- Ability to collaborate efficiently and transparently within the team as a strong team player.

Requirements and preferred experience- Advanced university degree in public policy, economics, social sciences, or other relevant fields, including substantive knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Focus on labour economics would be a plus.- 8+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally across business, government, non-profit, international organization and/or think tanks.- Proven track record and interest in driving impact and systems change in the areas of Education, Skills and Learning and dedication to interdisciplinary approaches.- A proven track record in the drafting of thought leadership, familiarity with using data to build strong narratives and experience in creating global partnerships.- Fluency with statistical tools such as R, Python, STATA and advanced knowledge of Excel.- and short-term objectives in a fast-paced environment.- Excellent teamwork, collaboration and operational management skills.- Fluency in English, with excellent written, digital and verbal communication skills; knowledge of other languages would be an asset.

Linkedin

Why work at the Forum:
The Forum believes that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive a