Specialist, Cyber Resilience

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 work at the Forum

We believe 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.

Why we are recruiting

The Centre for Cybersecurity (C4C) was established by the World Economic Forum in 2018 with the aim of building a collective response to global cybersecurity challenges by leveraging the impartial, public-private platform of the World Economic Forum. The Centre for Cybersecurity is today working with over 150 organizations, from both public and private sectors, towards securing our digital future.

We are seeking a highly driven Specialist to support the various initiatives within the Cyber Resilience portfolio of activities. The ideal candidate will be technically astute and have a strong background in analysing and drafting on different aspects of cybersecurity policy and technology. In particular, the candidate would have exposure to critical infrastructure industries and their specific cybersecurity concerns.

Reporting Lines & Interactions

The candidate will work closely with colleagues in the Centre for Cybersecurity, other relevant platforms and the International Organizations team at the Forum; and externally with a broad range of stakeholders including business partners, research institutions, academia, and expert communities.

The Specialist will report to the Lead, Cyber Resilience, Centre for Cybersecurity.

Breakdown of main responsibilities 

• Support the cyber resilience initiatives of the Centre, most notably in critical infrastructure industries, with a view to impact policy and regulation.

• Design and execute focused industry-specific exchanges, with the objective of building communities of action at an industry ecosystem level

• Contribute to thought leadership pieces on the elements intrinsic to cyber resilience such as embedding a culture of cybersecurity, governance, cyber incident reporting, supply chain security etc.

• Understand and deploy the Forum’s digital knowledge tools such as Transformation Maps to build awareness

• Work on shaping the design and content of sessions for the Centre and Forum events and produce relevant insight to be used in products for various audiences such as white papers, infographics and reports

The successful candidate will be assessed on

• Quality of interactions with internal and external stakeholders

• Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders

• Quality of strategic analysis and intelligence generated to support Forum’s activities in this space

• Efficiency and effectiveness in use of knowledge tools and products

Preferred requirements and experience

• Broad intellectual background with a Masters degree from a recognized university 

• 3-5 years' work experience in business, strategy consulting, journalism, academia, international organizations; experience in a specific research capacity related to digital/ cybersecurity issues is welcome

• Excellent verbal and written language skills in English; verbal proficiency in other languages would be an asset 

• Strategic thinking with ability to identify trends and patterns of transformation

• Strong interpersonal skills and contextual and emotional intelligence

• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills

Why work at the Forum:

The 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!