Community Engagement Specialist, Humanitarian and Resilience Investing
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About The Position
The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organisation for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. As part of the Centre for Regional and Geopolitical Affairs, the Forum's International Organisations team manages strategic relations with a broad group of multilateral institutions, engaging their leadership and experts on to the Forum's platforms to disseminate their message and accelerate impact, and help build effective multistakeholder coalitions in support of their mandates. The Forum's Humanitarian Agenda seeks to support the transformation of the international humanitarian system, as the scale, duration and complexity of crises urgently require more sustainable humanitarian and development responses. Within this remit, the team spearheads the Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) Initiative, launched in 2019 as an approach to unlock impact investing in frontier markets with the goal to measurably benefit and increase the resilience of at-risk and crisis-hit communities. Since inception, it has brought together over 100 partners across sectors to scale market-driven solutions by mobilizing commercial and catalytic capital, and strengthen the ecosystem for impact investment in frontier markets. The Community Specialist will be part of a team leading pioneering work that is rapidly gaining traction and importance, particularly in the current global development and aid context.
