DFF - Associate Strategy Manager - Strategic Opportunities and impact

Organization: Dubai GovernmentEducational-level Beginning of the main content section.Return to the home pagePrintable Format Job Description - DFF - Associate Strategy Manager - Strategic Opportunities and impact (26003139)Job Description DFF - Associate Strategy Manager - Strategic Opportunities and impact - (26003139) About Dubai Future Foundation:Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) was established in 2016 to institutionalize future-shaping for Dubai and strengthen the city’s position as a leading global city of the future. The Foundation works in partnership with government and private-sector entities to imagine, design and accelerate Dubai’s future. Its work spans five strategic areas: future foresight, knowledge dissemination, capacity building, future design and future acceleration. At the heart of DFF’s mandate is turning future-focused ideas and opportunities into tangible outcomes. The Foundation embraces risk-taking, agility and foresight as key attributes in navigating emerging opportunities and challenges. DFF is guided by a core belief that leading in the present is not enough; the future must be actively imagined, designed and executed.Job Description LIFE AT DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATIONDubai Future Foundation (DFF) aims to realize the wise vision of Dubai’s leadership to keep Dubai 10 years ahead, institutionalizing future-oriented thinking and forward-looking methodologies that position Dubai as the leading city of the future.In collaboration with government entities, global institutions, startups, and innovators, DFF drives collective efforts to 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 Foundation oversees a portfolio of initiatives that include the Museum of the Future, Area 2071, Dubai Future Accelerators, Dubai Future Labs, Dubai Future Academy, Dubai Future Forum, Dubai Centre for AI, and the Dubai RDI Program.Through these platforms, DFF institutionalizes foresight, enables innovation, builds talent, and designs the systems and industries that will keep Dubai 10 years ahead in every dimension of its future.For more information on the initiatives, projects, and programs of Dubai Future Foundation, please visit: www.dubaifuture.aeWHERE DOES THIS ROLE FIT INTO THE BIGGER PICTURE?The Associate Strategy Manager, Strategic Opportunities and Impact reports directly to the Director of Strategy, within the Strategy and Strategic Capital Department at DFF.This vertical sets DFF’s strategic direction and futures agenda, identifying and sizing high-value opportunities, shaping corporate strategy and governance, and embedding strategic and analytical firepower across the organisation’s most important initiatives.ABOUT THE ROLEAs the Associate Strategy Manager, Strategic Opportunities and Impact, you will help define where DFF aims next, identifying bold, high-value opportunities, sizing their potential impact, and translating them into strategic direction, transformative roadmaps, and executive-ready cases for leadership and the board.The role blends the toolkit of a top-tier strategy consultant with the rigour of an economist: structured problem-solving and compelling storytelling on one side, and quantitative impact assessment, financial modelling, and investment thinking on the other.You will work across multiple horizons, from long-term strategic vision to near-term execution, and embed directly with project teams when the hardest strategic questions need to be addressed.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES1. High-Value Opportunity Identification & Impact Assessment• Scan global trends, technologies, and futures signals through environmental scanning, competitive benchmarking, and horizon analysis to identify high-value opportunities, white spaces, and emerging strategic opportunities for DFF.• Define what qualifies as a high-value opportunity for DFF, including the criteria, ambition threshold, and strategic fit, and build a structured pipeline of opportunities for leadership consideration.• Assess the potential impact of each high-value opportunity both qualitatively — strategic significance, transformative and societal potential, and contribution to keeping Dubai 10 years ahead — and quantitatively, including economic value-at-stake, sizing, return on investment, and measurable impact metrics.• Support investment thinking on high-value opportunities, strategic partnerships, new initiatives, and programme expansions by contributing to business-case development, DCF and payback analysis, and scenario modelling.• Build the evidence base behind each high-value opportunity, bringing an economist’s rigour to sizing impact, modelling scenarios, and turning bold ideas into quantified, defensible cases for investment.2. Corporate Strategy & Direction• Lead and contribute to defining DFF’s overall