Specialist, Aviation Decarbonisation

Primary Responsibilities 

Main responsibilities - in collaboration with the Aviation Decarbonisation team, based in Geneva, and a project team lead based in Singapore, the Specialist will focus on the below deliverables and activities: 

Content curation and thought leadership: 

• Communicate key findings from SAF discussions in Asia Pacific in briefing papers and event summaries. 

• Identify best practice, guidance and lessons learned that can feature in the initiative’s annual report, and coordinate the drafting of this report alongside other thought leadership articles, briefing documents and papers, reporting templates for SAF usage and other formats, documenting and sharing outcomes and insights from the community. 

• Conduct regular market sounding, background research and horizon scanning to provide forward-looking insights and strategic guidance to the initiative.  

Support virtual meetings and in-person events: 

• Organize, curate and support virtual meetings of the new initiative, including quarterly deep dives, steering committees and technical advisory council meetings.  

• Organize one or more in-person events, including group meetings, panel debates and public sessions.  

• Prepare meeting materials, take minutes during sessions and circulate post-meeting outputs.  

Stakeholder management and engagement: 

• Build and maintain relationships with a new community of Asia Pacific stakeholders across the SAF value chain as well as Scope 3 buyers.  

• Support the project lead in engaging with prospective stakeholders who may be interested in the new initiative contributing to the development of the value proposition as well as the successful recruitment and onboarding of new coalition members.  

• Engage with corporates and wider stakeholders including value chain partners, financial institutions, governments and civil society organisations, working with the Aviation Decarbonisation team and relevant Forum business engagement colleagues, industry teams and heads of centres. 

The successful candidate will be assessed on 

• Project management: extent to which the planned milestones and overall objectives of the new SAF initiative in Asia Pacific are achieved. 

• Impact and visibility: ability to elevate the new initiative and attract participation from a wide range of local and global stakeholders that would commit to purchasing SAF, strengthening the demand signal for this technology in Asia Pacific. 

• Contributions to guidance drafting, regular reporting and thought leadership. 

• Business development and refinement of the initiative and the Forum’s aviation decarbonization value proposition, and linked activities.  

• Forum-wide support: supporting the delivery of activities advancing the Forum’s aviation decarbonisation agenda, including project and institutional events.  

• Ability to articulate and foster commitment to a joint vision, strategy and work plan with partners and stakeholders as well as implement engagement strategies, incorporating Forum-specific know-how and project management best practices across the team in the different offices and locations. 

• Quality, responsiveness, resourcefulness, and overall support of engaged initiatives. 

• Level of collaboration, internal and external. 

Preferred requirements and experience 

• Broad intellectual background with a master’s degree or equivalent in engineering, aviation, energy, political or environmental sciences; and a proven understanding of global energy transition issues and corporate sustainability. 

• Knowledge and experience on sustainability acquired through 1-3 years of professional international experience preferably in aviation decarbonization, sustainable transportation, ESG, carbon markets, industry decarbonization, renewable energy, or emissions mitigation. 

• Experience fostering collaboration across various stakeholder groups acquired from growing partnerships and alliances, solid understanding of value drivers in partnerships. 

• Outstanding communication skills in English, both verbal and written; any other language is a plus. 

• Strong presence and ability to research, analyse, synthesize, and communicate topics to corporate executives and multi-stakeholder audiences. 

• Excellent time management and coordination abilities and a track record of achieving results through persuasion, negotiation, and indirect influence. 

• A clear service orientation and strong social influence and leadership; collaboration abilities to work within the team, across Forum teams and with external parties. 

• Capacity to innovate, apply systems and critical thinking, and meet tight deadlines while delivering to the highest quality standards. 

• High level of adaptability and flexibility; autonomy and initiative, self-motivation, persistence and results orientation, collaboration, and “can-do” attitude.