Life at Dubai Future Foundation
Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) aims to realize the wise vision of Dubai’s leadership to institutionalize the envisioned future and forward-thinking methodologies, while positioning Dubai as the leading city of the future. In partnership with its local and global partners from governments, companies, startups, and entrepreneurs, DFF drives joint efforts to collectively imagine, design, and execute the best possible future for humanity.
Under the supervision of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of DFF, the DFF runs and oversees many futureproofing projects and initiatives, such as the Museum of the Future, Area 2071, The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution UAE, Dubai Future Accelerators, One Million Arab Coders, Dubai Future Academy, Dubai Future Solutions, Dubai Future Labs, Dubai Future Forum, etc. DFF’s efforts to share knowledge, adopt innovation, support entrepreneurs and innovative startups, build capacity, and promote forward-thinking and foresight principles contribute to Dubai’s ambitions to be a role model for the cities of the future through the power of unlimited imagination, innovation, foresight and disruptive mindset.
For more information on the initiatives, projects, and programs of Dubai Future Foundation, please visit the website: www.dubaifuture.ae
Where does this role fit into the bigger picture?
The Senior Analyst for Corporate Strategy reports directly to the Chief of Corporate Strategy, within the Strategy and Strategic Capital department of Dubai Future Foundation.
The Corporate Strategy and Strategic Capital department ensures all efforts and resources of the Foundation are oriented towards creating significant, tangible value for Dubai’s sectors, people and government, both in today’s terms and for what the emergent future needs and opportunities may be. The activities of the Corporate Strategy team can be categorized as two primary areas of focus: Strategy Design and Strategy Execution. This department drives the organization’s strategic direction by guiding initiatives and implementation, by ensuring KPIs and processes for in-house innovation, all exist. As a critical impact, the Corporate Strategy department supports decision makers by building an understanding of what is happening within the economy and business sectors across Dubai that will affect the future.
Senior Analyst
As the Senior Analyst for Corporate Strategy within the Dubai Future Foundation, you will support the Strategy function in defining the way forward through desk-based and primary research (both qualitative and quantitative), managing project performance and focusing on data collection. The role will require strong planning, research, storytelling and presentation capabilities and the use of project management tools for tracking. Overall, you will explore and develop ideas, systematically manage the implementation of projects and support the innovation process.
Your duties and responsibilities:
Strategy
• You will be responsible for supporting the strategic planning process through researching long, medium, short term trends and collecting relevant information, including the preparation and facilitation of workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
• You will be accountable to follow up and measure performance and progress towards organizational strategic goals.
• You will be expected to present your projects ideas by creating strategic well-thought, evidence-based proposals including provisional budgets, resource requirements and timelines.
• You will also strategically and critically assess ideas to understand the risks, benefits and opportunities of all projects and ensure all ideas are fully explored.
• You will also execute any additional projects or tasks as requested by the Chief of Strategy and/or senior members of the team.
Project Management
• You will contribute to the execution of the strategy by working on strategy components such as templates, KPI scorecards, management tools. You will work collaboratively with the other departments, ensuring that the strategy is communicated and easily understood by all throughout the organization.
• You will monitor and assess all projects, acting as a consultant, challenging the business to align with strategic goals and targets.
• Your role will include providing support to the business units on project management, tracking and following processes to relay status at the corporate level.
• You will proactively update dashboards that monitor high-level project updates to ensure the Project Managers has real time project information
• Your role will be to support and contribute to the organization’s approach to the measurement and evaluation of projects with a focus on the contribution to an organizational dashboard for impact and organizational effectiveness.
• Your role will emphasize documentation and tracking to support CEO level updates.
Ideation
• You will be expected to present your projects ideas by creating strategic, well-thought, evidence-based proposals including validated research, economic information alongside technical project details such as budgets, resource requirements and timelines.
• You will also strategically and critically assess ideas to understand the risks, benefits, and opportunities of all projects and ensure all ideas are fully explored.
• You ensure the idea bank and pipeline is managed for tracking.
• You will proactively stay aware of regional and global situations, economics and research to bring ideas, concepts and trends into the innovation process.
Internal Partnerships & Third Party Relationships
• You will build strong partnerships within the business to encourage ideation and shared brainstorming that can lead to innovative and disruptive idea generation.
• You will work closely with the project teams to ensure projects consistently align with the strategic aims of the business and achieve the expected results.
• You will support in engaging with external partners and stakeholders to learn and influence business strategies, while constantly remaining alert and forward-thinking about opportunities and risks in the external environment is key to your role responsibilities.
• You will partner with internal stakeholders to support projects and initiatives, ensuring that they stay focused and deliver results that are aligned with the Dubai Future Foundation’s strategic objectives.
Why this role is important?
This role makes the biggest impact by being strategic, focused and curious about trends and future-focused technology or advancements. You will be proactive, organized, detail oriented and able to deliver results. You will encourage those around you to innovate, brainstorm and think outside the box to disrupt processes and create new ideas. You will be part of the team that drives innovation throughout the business and involved in many high-impact projects that deliver real future change to Dubai.
What Dubai Future Foundation offers?
We will offer you a unique opportunity to work with passionate people and support shapers of the future, as well as work that has an impact not only on the organization or the UAE but on all of humankind.
You will have the chance to work on exciting and new projects and work in a highly diverse and fast-paced environment that fosters creativity, disruptive ideas, and innovation.
