Policy Analyst, Trade in Services

☞ World Economic Forum LLC

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Dia de atualização: 03-04-2024

Localização: Genève Genève GE

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Policy Analyst, Trade in Services
Centre for Regions, Trade, & Geopolitics
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 we are recruiting
The Forum’s Trade and Investment team, within the
Centre for Regions, Trade, & Geopolitics
, aims to (a) create open and resilient markets; (b) ensure efficient physical, capital and digital flows, and (c) support equitable and sustainable value chains.
The Centre is responsible for relationships with governments around the world, allowing the Trade and Investment team to effectively collaborate with policymakers on driving reforms.
Trade and Investment team outputs range from creating communities of purpose and catalysing collaboration, to thought leadership and original publications, to delivery of country-level public-private regulatory reform and capacity building projects in emerging and developing economies.
Within the Trade and Investment team, one of the core areas is growing and facilitating
investment and services trade
. The aim is to increase the quantity and quality of investment and services flows through enabling reforms in emerging and developing markets.
Working on making investment and services easier and better contribute to societal goals and corporate growth requires public-private cooperation par excellence: business can help identify challenges; experts inform good-practice solutions; and governments enact requisite reforms.
The team is looking to hire a Policy Analyst for Trade in Services to support the growing work on facilitating services trade through the recently launched
Streamlining Services Initiative
.
The Streamlining Services Initiative aims to leverage two new agreements to grow services trade: the WTO’s Services Domestic Regulation (SDR) Reference Paper and the African Continental Free Trade Area’s (AfCFTA) Protocol on Trade in Services. These two agreements hold great potential to help unlock services-driven diversification, competitiveness, and growth, but only if implemented in practice. Services account for 2/3 of global GDP and 6 out 10 jobs, yet the costs of services trade are twice that of goods, and 40 percent of those costs come from burdensome regulations. Estimates place the global savings from implementation of only the WTO SDR agreement at over $150 billion. Projects to help improve services regulatory frameworks and grow services trade will take place in Saudi Arabia and several African economies, in cooperation with the AfCFTA Secretariat, the World Bank Group, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Reporting lines and interactions
The Policy Analyst for Trade in Services will report to the Lead for Trade in Services, and through the Lead to the Head of Investment and Services (Matthew Stephenson). The Policy Analyst will work closely with the Forum’s broader Trade and Investment team as well as colleagues throughout the Centre and the wider World Economic Forum.
Preferred start date and initial duration: 15 October 2023, 2 years
Key responsibilities
  • Project management: Be responsible for project management of the Streamlining Services Initiative, including helping to drive progress on activities and deliverables, reviewing and drafting project-related policy reports, and coordinating multi-stakeholder public-private working group members.
  • Analytical tools: Apply existing analytical tools to analysing and helping reform services regulatory frameworks, and/or create new analytical tools to help carry out this work, providing a quantitative analytical lens to complement qualitative approaches.
  • Policy outputs: Develop policy guidance publications and other outputs to help drive services growth through good practice reform agendas.
  • Community development: Assist the development of the services community, including through identifying and engaging relevant businesses, policymakers, and experts.
Key skills
  • Ability to quickly and accurately analyse policy regimes through both quantitative and qualitative means to help identify potential policy reform options.
  • Ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders, including private and public sector representatives – client-facing comfort and skills a must.
  • Strong project organisation skills and ability to adapt strategy and deliverables to evolving needs and contexts.
  • Good written and oral communications skills to shape content for different audiences.
  • Team player, hardworking, entrepreneurial, creative, diplomatic, and solutions oriented.
Preferred requirements
  • 4+ years working on investment policy and services trade, including analysis, policy recommendations, and supporting reform agendas.
  • Publication record in investment and services area a plus.
  • Master’s degree in business, economics, law, development, public administration, public policy, international development, or equivalent.
  • Project management experience a plus.
  • Interest to work in fast-paced, multi-national, dynamic environment.
  • English fluency.
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 mind-sets and agendas and driving collective action. Join us and become a driver for positive change.
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!
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