Chief Analyst - Corporate Planning - Development & Corporate Transformation

Roads and Transport Authority; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Roads and Transport Authority is seeking a strategic foresight professional to support planning cycles with foresight inputs and trend summaries. The role focuses on aligning foresight outputs with Dubai’s strategic plans and national agendas.

Applicants should have a strong background in futures studies, policy analysis, and data analytics, with relevant experience in government or large-scale planning environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in strategic foresight, futures studies, public policy, or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience (5+ years with a Bachelor’s) in a relevant role.

Responsibilities

• Support the application of the Future Foresight Framework across corporate planning cycles.
• Maintain alignment between foresight outputs and strategic plans and city initiatives.
• Coordinate KPI reviews to ensure adherence to DGEP and Future Readiness Index requirements.
• Prepare foresight briefs and trend summaries for internal departments and agencies.

Skills

Strategic foresight

Policy analysis

Data analytics

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in strategic foresight or futures studies or related fields

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Support 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.

Operations

• Operate 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 & Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s/master’s in strategic Foresight or Futures Studies, Public Policy, Strategic Management, Economics, Data Science/Analytics.

Experience

• 3+ years in case of Master’s degree (5+ years in case of Bachelor’s degree)