Lead, Cyber Resilience

World Economic Forum

Location:
Geneva, Switzerland
Category:
Professional Staff
Posted Jul 17, 2026Apply by Aug 1, 2026 (5d left)
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The Lead, Cyber Resilience will drive activities within the Cyber Resilience portfolio at the World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity. The role involves scaling cyber resilience initiatives, building communities of action, and developing thought leadership on cyber resilience topics, engaging public and private sector stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Scale the cyber resilience initiatives of the Centre, most notably in important critical infrastructure sectors
  • Design and execute cross-industry exchanges, with the objective of building communities of action at the ecosystem level
  • Build relationships, curate and grow the initiative participants, which include a range of public and private sector stakeholders
  • Build consensus and develop thought leadership pieces on the elements intrinsic to cyber resilience such as embedding a culture of cybersecurity, governance, cyber readiness, supply chain security, etc.
  • Understand and deploy the Forum’s digital knowledge tools such as Transformation Maps to build awareness
  • Shape 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
  • Support the strategic delivery of the Chief Information Security Officers Community by coordinating the planning and execution of CISO Community activities, ensuring smooth delivery, strong participation and effective follow-up

Requirements

  • Master's degree from a recognized university
  • 8-10 years’ work experience in a relevant organisation in cybersecurity or technology-related domains
  • Excellent presentation, community-building and facilitation skills
  • Efficiency and effectiveness in use of knowledge tools and products
  • Strategic thinking with ability to identify trends and patterns of transformation
  • Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders
  • Excellent verbal and written language skills in English; verbal proficiency in other languages would be an asset

Skills

  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyber Resilience
  • Community Building
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Knowledge Management
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Trend Identification
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Technical Communication
  • Presentation Skills
  • Written Communication
  • Verbal Communication

Languages

English