Chief Analyst - Corporate Planning - Development & Corporate Transformation

Roles and Responsibilities

StrategySupport the application of RTA’s approved Future Foresight Framework across corporate planning cycles, preparing scanning inputs and background material for each foresight round.Maintain the alignment register linking foresight outputs to the Dubai Economic Agenda (D33), Dubai Urban Master Plan 2040, UAE Centennial 2071, Dubai Future Foresight Strategy and RTA’s strategic goals.Coordinate periodic reviews of Section activities and KPIs to ensure adherence to Dubai Government Excellence Program (DGEP) and Future Readiness Index requirements.Support the preparation of foresight briefs and trend summaries requested by departments, sectors and agencies during strategic and annual planning cycles.OperationsOperate continuous horizon scanning under the Framework: collect signals from approved local, regional and global sources, screen them for relevance, and log entries in the foresight repository with full traceability of source and assumption.Maintain the trend, driver and weak-signal repository, ensuring records are classified, clustered against RTA strategic themes, and updated within each scanning cycle.Prepare scenario inputs, comparison tables and supporting analysis for scenario workshops conducted under the Framework, and document the outcomes.Maintain the foresight toolkit assets — templates, checklists and quick-reference guides — issued under the Framework, and support internal users applying them.Administer Section tasks — meetings, minutes, correspondence, workshop logistics and stakeholder inputs — ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance of administrative processes with RTA regulations and standards.Job Qualifications & RequirementsEducationBachelor’s/master’s in strategic Foresight or Futures Studies, Public Policy, Strategic Management, Economics, Data Science/Analytics.Experience3+ years in case of Master’s degree (5+ years in case of Bachelor’s degree)