**Description**
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (the Resource Centre), an international non-profit organization, is seeking a Researcher to support its work to promote the labour rights of migrant workers around the world.
* **Location**: London, Berlin (offices) or Global South (from home) preferred. Applicants must already have authorisation to work in preferred location
* **Salary**: GBP 26,000\-28,000, commensurate with experience and adjusted according to location
* **Contract type**: 4 days per week, one year contract
* **Closing date:** Rolling; 3rd March 2022 at 23:59:59
* **To apply:** Complete and return this application form via our jobs portal. Kindly note that the application form is required; we will not accept CVs. If you need any additional support, please reach out to Giulia Vinzi at
[email protected]
**About the organization**
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre works to put human rights at the core of companies’ business models; to empower communities and workers to secure their rights and gain accountability for abuse; and to encourage governments to create the right regulation and incentives to facilitate these outcomes. Our Global Team, based in more than 20 countries around the world, work with a rich network of activists, unions, human rights groups, and investors. Our website and publications are available in ten languages. We work across all sectors and issues related to business and human rights, with strategic focus on the rights of workers in global supply chains, the rights of communities seeking responsible natural resource use and a just transition to zero carbon economies, and the rights of people to accountable digital technologies.
The Resource Centre has helped define the growing field of business & human rights. It has put companies in all regions on notice that their human rights conduct is being watched. It has drawn attention to corporate abuses in all countries and provided increased recognition to those companies taking positive steps to promote human rights. The Resource Centre is widely respected for being fair, objective, and constructive in its approach to make change happen.
**The Position:**
The Researcher will work closely with the Senior Researcher on migrant workers’ rights based in London) and members of the wider Labour Team to support the implementation of a project to advance the rights of migrant workers, with a particular focus on migration corridors to the Gulf and Europe, within the Resource Centre’s broader labour rights strategy. Working under the direction of the Senior Researcher the Researcher will be responsible for updating the digital portal with relevant international and regional news, engaging with companies to seek responses to alleged labour rights abuses, and undertaking regular qualitative and quantitative analysis of reported rights abuses and company disclosure.
**Key competencies and attributes:**
* **Values**: Strong, demonstrated commitment to human rights. Shares values and ethos of the Resource Centre
* **Work experience**: 2+ years of work experience, with at least one year of experience in human rights, labour migration, supply chains or a related field
* **Subject matter expertise**: Knowledge and understanding of one or a combination of the following areas: migrant worker issues; business and human rights; and/or corporate supply chains.
* **Research & analytical skills**: Able to search and identify relevant information online and offline; adept at undertaking systematic data collection to a high level of detail and accuracy; ability to synthesise research and data for effective communication
* **Organisation**: Able to work efficiently and methodically to meet deliverables through strong organisation, prioritisation and proactive communication with the line manager.
* **Communications and web-savvy:** Strong English-language writing skills, including succinct writing for the web; experience in external communications, social media platforms and web management a plus
* **Team work:** Able to operate effectively and constructively as part of a multicultural and diverse global team, and ensure effective communication despite geographical distances between team members.
* **Languages**_:_ Fluent English (reading, writing, speaking); another international language is desirable, particularly Arabic.
**Roles and responsibilities:**
* **Media monitoring**: Conduct daily media monitoring online to track latest international and regional policy developments, NGO reports and news relating to migrant workers’ rights as well as cases of migrant worker abuse by companies.
* **Website content maintenance**: Publish items of interest on the Resource Centre website and wider labour team, curate information, news and resources on the online project pages/ portal.
* **Company responses**: Draft correspondence and seek response from companies to labour rights allegations and concerns from civil society; maintain contact database information.
* **Data analysis**: Conduct qualitative analysis of reported cases of abuse and company disclosure, analysing information against Resource Centre methodologies; synthesising and presenting research and data for external communications.
* **Administrative and project support:** Assist the Senior Researcher and other Labour Team members as necessary with ad hoc administrative tasks including maintaining databases, drafting outreach, updating contact information, organising travel and events.
* **Team work**: Participate in regularly scheduled Global Team and Labour team calls, and ad-hoc calls and meetings as needed.
**TO APPLY:** Complete and return this application form via our jobs portal. Kindly note that the application form is required; we will not accept CVs. If you need any additional support, please reach out to Giulia Vinzi at
[email protected]