Consultant As Research Analyst

**Program Overview**

WRI Indonesia is an independent research organization that works with governments, businesses, multilateral institutions and civil society groups to develop practical solutions that improve people’s lives and ensure nature can thrive in Indonesia. WRI works to make gender, equity, and social inclusion a standard practice in environment and sustainable development initiatives. We believe that access to a clean, healthy, safe environment is a human right. Safeguarding these substantive rights for all communities benefits the planet and moves us toward a more just future. Ensuring that everyone, everywhere, has the voice, power, and information to steer environmental decision-making are critical to advancing sustainable, equitable development. Therefore, we work across programs, initiatives, and centers across the institute to ensure our environmental projects are inclusive of social issues like gender and equity. The program has three main areas of work: (i) Ensuring that energy system and cities empower women and marginal groups (and take their safety concerns) into account through our work on e-mobility strategy and air quality; (ii) Promoting gender, equality, and social inclusion throughout our knowledge products and ensuring gender and social inclusion balance in public events, guided by a set of recommendations for our staff and others.

Standing Together for Environmental Defenders (The STAND Initiative)

Grassroots Environmental Defenders (GEDs) and their families face significant security risks, criminalization, loss of livelihoods, and even extrajudicial killings due to their advocacy. Standing Together for Environmental Defenders (The STAND Initiative) is designed to expand available resources and strengthen the ability of GEDs to access legal mechanisms, participate in environmental decision-making processes, seek justice, and leverage coalitions and platforms as part of their advocacy, while using appropriate safety and protection strategies. The STAND Initiative is a global initiative that will create differentiated capacity-building programs in Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Philippines and a global Defender Small Grant Fund.

WRI Indonesia as the Country Lead Organization (CLO) will manage the development and implementation of the country capacity building program and act as country security coordinator. Specifically, this role includes:

- Identifying and engaging with GEDs, GED networks, and current partners already providing support to GEDs to co-create the training program and ensure it incorporates the skills, knowledge, and strategies needed and requested by defenders.
- Designing a training program including identifying technical training partners who can provide GEDs with legal assistance, digital and physical security, media support, psychosocial support, and emergency financial support for protection needs with the support ALLIED, WRI and other partners.
- Ensuring the program safely meets the needs of wide range of defenders including those of varying religion, sex, disability, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age.
- Assist in developing the Defender Small Grant Fund (DSGF) including themes, criteria, grantee decision, and supporting grantees during grant period including optional storytelling and security.
- Supporting project management including Department of State, subgranting, MEL and reporting requirements.

**Job Highlight**

The Research Analyst will be responsible to support the implementation of STAND initiative in Indonesia. This position will work to achieve the project’s goal which is to strengthen the long-term ability of GEDs to engage in evidence-based advocacy campaigns and coalitions addressing environmental and development impacts. This position will work with diverse stakeholders, mainly civil society organizations and government agencies, to identify and address potential social inequities that may arise during the transition.

The Research Analyst will be based in Jakarta with an office-flex working arrangement, reporting directly to the STAND Initiative Project Lead and will be under the supervision of Forest and Peat Monitoring Senior Manager. He/she will work with the STAND project team in the Jakarta office and regional office, as well as collaborate with the rest of the relevant program team. This position will also coordinate with the Center of Equitable Development at the WRI Global office.

In support of WRI's DEI commitment, this position is also expected to actively participate in these collaborative efforts by integrating equity into your work, our workplace, and the organizational culture.

**What You Will Do**

**Technical Works and Research (**7**0%)**
- Conduct data collection and research for socio-political context analysis, stakeholder mapping, and needs assessment analysis for the STAND initiative.
- Develop and produce report on socio-political cont