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About the Role
The Senior Associate, City Strategy and Ecosystem Engagement, will help the Centre identify, assess and develop strategic opportunities with cities. Sitting within the Yes/Cities team, the role will connect city priorities with relevant Forum programmes, industries, partners and initiatives, while supporting a coordinated approach to city engagement across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain a prioritized list of approximately 20–30 cities for potential Yes/Cities engagement, using agreed criteria and evidence, such as city priorities, development plans, institutional structures, challenges and opportunities
- Maintain visibility of city opportunities, owners, next steps and handovers across the Centre.
- Build relationships with mayors, senior city leaders and relevant government departments.
- Develop an understanding of local government priorities, institutional structures and decision-making processes.
- Map existing Forum relationships and activities across priority cities
- Connect city priorities to relevant Forum industries, Centres and initiatives and serve as a conduit accordingly
- Support partner proposals and business cases where city-level alignment is central to the value proposition.
- Feed city intelligence into the evolution of the Yes/Cities product offering, engagement model and business plan.
- Assess city readiness, government commitment, local leadership, partner presence, local anchor capacity and potential funding.
- Support the development of city qualification criteria and engagement standards.
- Prepare evidence-based recommendations for the Senior Manager, Yes/Cities and relevant regional leads on whether and how an opportunity should progress.
- Coordinate with the Senior Associate, Yes/Cities responsible for the Global Network to transition cities suited to entry-point engagement documenting context, contacts, next steps and ownership.
- Coordinate with regional ecosystem leads to transition qualified opportunities into regional or city-level engagement, ensuring relevant materials and intelligence are complete.
- Maintain clarity on ownership, next steps and accountabilities for each priority city.
- Support connections between city priorities and global Forum programming.
- Identify opportunities for cross-city learning and replication.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant experience in city strategy, government engagement, public-private partnerships, ecosystem development, consulting or a related field.
- Experience working with cities, governments, public institutions, economic development organizations or place-based partnerships.
- Strong understanding of how economic development, infrastructure, innovation, workforce, resilience and public-sector decision-making shape city priorities.
- Ability to assess cities and ecosystems and translate complex information into clear profiles, recommendations, opportunity briefs and business cases.
- Strong stakeholder-management and project-management skills, with experience coordinating across teams, organizations and sectors and managing multiple workstreams.
- Sound judgement and diplomacy, and the ability to connect local priorities with broader strategies, partnerships and investment opportunities in an international, matrixed organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Location
- New York
- Geneva
Work Type
- Fixed term
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000-115,000
About the Company
- Join an independent and impartial organization with over 55 years of connecting leaders to make sense of global challenges and move the world forward together.