Consultant As Industrial Policy Analyst

**Program Overview**

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent national research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. The Energy and Sustainable Business (ESB) program works to advance decarbonization among corporates, accelerating a just transition towards net zero emission in Indonesia, while balancing the need for economic development. In achieving that, WRI introduces two of its flagship products which are: Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) for emission accounting and Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) for ambitious and science-aligned emission reduction target setting, within and beyond its value chain. By adapting the tools to the national context, WRI Indonesia guides corporates towards their complete net zero journey, aiming to increase Indonesia corporates’ competitiveness through strengthened standards and climate mitigation/adaptation measures which ultimately significantly contribute to Indonesia’s emission reduction.

WRI Indonesia believe that sustainable development highlights the need for integrated approaches to finding solutions that are aligned with the challenge of achieving economic, social, and environmental goals that are often interlinked. This can be a daunting task, as the interlinkages are complex and context specific and depend on the issues under consideration, the geographic and temporal scales, sector of the industry, and the existing technologies. Therefore, the ESB program aims to work across disciplines with the cities team, climate team, forest and land use team to combine decarbonization framework, quantitative models, low carbon technology solutions, and other policy-making decision tools to support and achieve key national commitments, such as Indonesia net zero ambition.

**Job Highlight**

The Industrial Policy Analyst is expected to develop and strengthen WRI Indonesia’s research excellence on green industrial policy issue in collaboration with other functions within the ESB team. The research scope will vary depending on the project aims; however, revolve around these policy issues: sectoral industrial decarbonization policy, national emission reduction governance, energy policy, trade and economic policy, as well as carbon pricing mechanism. The analyst must stay abreast with the climate policies, solutions, and trends relevant to industrial decarbonization landscape. Moreover, quantitative analytics, critical thinking, stakeholder collaboration and data acquisition, are expected and highly rewarded skills for this position. In strategizing the research target, data acquisition, and analysis, the analyst will work with other analysts and senior analysts within WRI Indonesia’s ESB Team, and other teams in the institution.

This position will be based in Jakarta with office-flex working arrangement. Reporting directly to Senior Manager for Energy and Sustainable Business while working very closely and collaboratively with research team within the Energy and Sustainable Business portfolio. In support of WRI's DEI commitment, you are responsible for actively participating in these collaborative efforts by integrating equity into your work, our workplace, and the organizational culture.

**What You Will Do**

**Knowledge and Research Work (70%)**
- Support the development of policy research, analysis, and briefs to enable industrial decarbonization roadmap for 9 priority subsectors (e.g., cement, iron and steel, chemicals, pulp and paper, fertilizer, têxtile, food and beverages, automotive, and glass and ceramics).
- Support the development of policy research, analysis, and briefs to establish elements of national emission reduction governance (e.g., emission inventory mechanism and methodology, legal standing of emission reduction trajectory, mitigation action implementation mechanism, and carbon pricing).
- Support legal draft, regulatory impact assessment, and other administrative documents required for policy development.
- Support and conduct new lines of policy research to enhance the national policy ecosystem towards net zero.
- Conceptualize and conduct internal capacity building for ESB team or other WRI teams on industrial policy.
- Conceptualize and write ESB research products and evidence-based narrative, promote them in various speaking and training opportunities.
- Provide strategic advice to ESB manager and leads on improving ESB research priorities and effective implementation.

**Stakeholder Engagement (30%)**
- Initiate communication and maintain good relationship with government and key research partners.
- Facilitate meetings and workshops with key partners from government, NGOs, and private sectors.
- Co-develop collaborative proposals and reports with key partners.
- Drive development of messaging strategy based on data analysis from government being supported.

**What You Will Need**
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental economics, environmental policy, pub