Specialist, Middle East and North Africa, Centre for Energy and Materials

The Specialist will support the delivery of the Centre for Energy and Materials' global activities in emerging markets, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. The role involves managing projects related to energy, industrial and materials transitions, coordinating stakeholder consultations, and supporting partner engagement to advance the Forum's impact in emerging markets.

Responsibilities

• Deliver energy, industrial and materials-related Forum projects based on the priorities of business and government stakeholders in the regions, with an initial focus in MENA.
• Support the engagement of the Saudi Arabia Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution through advisory and project management, ensuring their alignment with CENMAT priorities.
• Coordinate stakeholder consultations, run periodic analysis and desktop research translating insights into the production of pre-reads, internal briefings, reports, blogs, and session structures.
• Support the identification and engagement of stakeholders in programming and events to strengthen regional activities undertaken by the Centre for Energy and Materials.
• Manage regular partner retention and acquisition activities with the view to target high-quality growth advancing the Forum’s engagement and impact across emerging and developing markets, utilizing Forum tools including Tableau and Salesforce.
• Provide transversal coordination support to the wider EMD Team on regional analysis, calendars/milestones scheduling, and communications for all regional activities.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in energy, environmental sciences, sustainable development, international relations, public policy, or related fields.
• 4+ years of relevant professional experience in multistakeholder contexts.
• High level familiarity with energy, industrial and materials transition topics in the Middle East preferred.
• Understanding of local policy context, business etiquette and dynamics.
• Demonstrated experience in addressing energy or industrial transformation challenges in an emerging market context and leading complex multi-stakeholder projects in the Middle East is considered a plus.
• Purpose-driven individual, motivated by the idea of creating impact and delivering value to stakeholders in support of energy, industrial, and materials agendas.
• Ability to proactively support event planning and coordination, stakeholder engagement and trust building across cultures and sectors.
• High levels of curiosity and learning agility, comfort with ambiguity, and analytical capacity to surface, articulate, contextualize and action insights in a complex multi-issue environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Arabic is a plus.
• Self-starter with a highly collaborative, empathetic approach and a strong commitment to advancing dialogue, cooperation and innovation.
• Ability to communicate to senior-level stakeholders effectively and independently.

Skills

• Energy Transition Analysis
• Industrial Transition
• Materials Transition
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Multi-stakeholder Project Planning
• Event Planning
• Policy Analysis
• Emerging Markets Expertise
• Cross-Cultural Communication
• Analytical Capacity
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication
• Project Coordination
• Business Etiquette
• International Relations
• Sustainable Development
• Public Policy

Languages

English, Arabic