Indonesia Researcher

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is seeking an Indonesia Researcher to contribute to our work on advancing corporate respect for human rights and the environment by companies in and from the country, with a focus on contributing to our work on just transition, including monitoring human rights impacts linked to extraction of transition minerals and renewable energy installations.

Details

• Salary: GBP 24,000 – 26,400 (prorated to 28hrs/week of work)
• Closing date: 20 November 2024
• Location: Indonesia (remote); with ability to work at least four hours per workday in the CET time zone
• Contract type: 4 days per week (28 hours), 1-year (with possibility of extension)
• Annual leave: 19 days/year (prorated in the first year depending on the start date)
• Start: As soon as possible

About the organisation

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre works with diverse allies and partners to put human rights at the core of companies’ business models and end abuse; to support communities and workers in securing their rights and accountability for corporate abuse; and to encourage governments to create the right regulation and incentives to uphold human rights in business. We are a global organization rooted in five continental regions, comprised of a Global Team of 80. Global Team members work with a rich network of human rights advocates in ten languages, and place strong emphasis on our alliances with grassroots organisations facing often profound inequalities of power in protecting their rights. The efforts inform our ability to influence responsible business, investors, and governments for transformative change.

Our work covers the full gamut of human rights in business, with particular focus on three thematic programmes: just energy transition and natural resources; accountable digital technologies; and workers’ rights in global supply chains. These are strengthened by three cross cutting themes: civic freedoms and human rights defenders; corporate legal accountability; and racial and gender justice.

While this post covers our general scope of work, it is particularly focused on our programme supporting a fast and fair transition to clean energy and zero carbon economies. We seek to promote human rights across the renewable energy value chain. We are focused on transition minerals, the installation of renewable energy where the fast transition is increasingly endangered by companies’ poor human rights record, the lack of investor due diligence, the absence of adequate regulation, and the impact on communities.

The position

The successful candidate will work closely with the Southeast Asia and East Asia teams to contribute to our work in the greater Asia region, with a particular focus issues surrounding just transition, including transition mineral mining and renewable energy deployment. The Researcher will be responsible for updating and maintaining the digital portal with relevant news items and information on policy trends related to Indonesia, engaging with companies operating in Indonesia to seek responses to allegations of human rights abuse, both within the country and in their value chains, and coordinating closely with partners on the ground to effectively advance our just transition work in the region and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Media monitoring: Conduct media monitoring online in English and Bahasa Indonesia to identify news reports, NGO/civil society/trade union statements and reports, and policy development relating to business and human rights in the country as well as cases of alleged human rights abuse by Indonesian companies.
• Website content maintenance: Publish relevant items in English and possibly in Bahasa Indonesia on the Resource Centre website, curate information, news and resources on relevant online portal pages.
• Company responses: Invite Indonesian companies in English and Bahasa Indonesia to respond to allegations of human rights abuse and concerns raised by civil society about their conduct; maintain contact database information, continue engagement on behalf of affected groups when appropriate.
• Contribute to regional strategies and priorities: With partners and colleagues, support the Asia team to implement our regional strategy.
• Develop high quality written materials: (Co-)author materials for our website, including newsletters, blog posts, workshop summaries, guidance documents, briefing notes and papers.
• Outreach and representation: Help sustain and build a network of contacts in Indonesia, including staying in regular and close touch with identified key partner organisations. Occasionally represent the Resource Centre at meetings, conferences and workshops in-region.
• Administrative and project support: Assist as necessary with ad-hoc administrative tasks including donor reporting, organising travel, events and workshops.
• Team work: Participate in regularly scheduled Global Team and Asia team calls, and ad-hoc calls and meetings as needed.

Essential skills and experience

• Experience: Experience working on business and human rights issues or in a related field; understanding of relevant international standards, experience working on Just Transition or climate justice issues is a plus.
• Research and analytical skills: Ability to search and identify relevant information online, and to synthesise and present information accurately with a high level of attention to detail.
• Communication: Strong writing skills in English and Bahasa, including succinct writing for the web
• Values: Strong, demonstrated commitment to human rights. Shares values and ethos of the Resource Centre
• Team player & organisation : Able to work both independently and as part of a diverse (global) team, interacting in person and online, with good organisation and prioritisation skills as well as a proactive approach
• Languages: Fluent English and Bahasa Indonesia (reading, writing, speaking)