Global Policy and Metrics Lead, Global Plastic

This role is effective September '23 ending August '24

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.

The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) is a neutral and independent multistakeholder platform hosted by the Forum that aims to eradicate plastic pollution. It works through both a global and national platform, bringing together public, private, and civil society leaders to develop joint solutions to the plastic pollution crisis, which are both pragmatic and ambitious.

Why we are recruiting

The World Economic Forum is host to the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP), which is a public-private collaboration platform to help translate political and corporate commitment to address plastic pollution into concrete action plans. GPAP has been established in collaboration with the governments of Canada and United Kingdom, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the World Resources Institute, as well as businesses along the plastics value chain. GPAP harnesses the convening power of the World Economic Forum to bring together governments, businesses and civil society to collaboratively identify and scale solutions to the issue of plastics waste pollution.

The GPAP platform is designed to bring together a diverse and committed group of stakeholders and decision-makers, providing an opportunity to coordinate action, amplify efforts and catalyse impact to address the plastic waste and pollution crisis. At the global level, GPAP and the Forum have served as leading conveners of multistakeholder conversations related to the global plastic treaty process underway, including at key global events such as INC meetings, the Forum’s Annual Meeting and its Sustainable Development Impact Meetings during UNGA/UN Climate Week. At the country level, GPAP supports multistakeholder platforms in currently over 10 countries, with additional partnerships expected in the months ahead. A central element of GPAP’s country engagement is to support local stakeholders in conducting baseline assessments to understand the country’s plastic footprint, developing future scenarios and drawing up action roadmaps for holistically tackling the plastic pollution challenge.

GPAP is now seeking a maternity cover to help the team deliver national baseline analysis and action roadmaps and lead coordination of engagement with the UN treaty process. This role will include acting as the GPAP focus point for the treaty, providing technical metrics support to national partnerships, managing consultantsand engaging with relevant global and local stakeholders.

Reporting lines and interactions

The Global Policy and Metrics Lead will be based at the World Economic Forum’s Geneva or New York office, within the Global Plastic Action Partnership team, reporting to the Head of Community Engagement and Impact. Internally, this person will work with colleagues in GPAP, the broader Centre for Nature and Climate, as well as a wide range of other colleagues in Partner Development, Business Engagement, Regional Agenda and Programming teams.

Main responsibilities include:
National Metrics

As a core part of delivering national baseline assessments and roadmaps, provide technical metrics support for GPAP’s National Analysis and Modelling (NAM) tool
- Provide strategic oversight and updates for GPAP’s NAM tool.
- Present the NAM tool and methodology to key governments and other partners.
- Regularly update NAM tool communications materials
- Primary point of contact with key consulting partner. This includes monthly strategy meetings and weekly check-ins to ensure consultants provides the right support to the NPAP analysis and roadmap development projects.
- Responsible for consultant contract management.
- Responsible for coordinating with the NAM tool technical provider and hosting platform, in close collaboration with Operations Lead.

Manage delivery of NAM tool and national roadmaps
- Support capacity building for GPAP and NPAP teams to deliver the baseline analysis and national roadmaps using the NAM tool.
- Provide strategic oversight and management of NAM tool to ensure final roadmaps are delivered to the highest quality and are aligned with the GPAP approach.
- Primary point of contact for national NAM consultants. This includes responsibility for managing NAM consultant proposal and selection process in new national partnerships.
- Lead regular project reviews and debriefs to ensure learnings are captured and continuous improvement of the NAM methodology.

Global Policy

Serve as key coordinator and strategic point of contact for the UN global treaty to end plastic pollution.
- Responsible for developing and updating the GPAP treaty strategy. This includes incorporating latest treaty developments and regular consultatio