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Embode Limited

ตำแหน่งงาน : Consultant – Business & Human Rights
ช่วงเวลาประกาศ : Aug 16 – Sep 30, 2023
ประเภทงาน : โปรแกรม
ติดต่อ : applications@embode.co

รายละเอียด :

Job title: Consultant – Business & Human Rights

Reports to: Associate Director

Location: Remote-based, with national travel

Date of Deadline: Ongoing

Candidates who possess experience working in the regions of SE Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, South America, and East and Central Africa are strongly encouraged to apply and will be given preference.

Overview

Embode is an international human rights consulting agency focusing on social protection, responsible business, labour, migration, and corporate accountability. With 8 years of experience, we have conducted groundbreaking work in Asia and Africa’s agricultural and manufacturing sectors. As an independent expert voice, we bridge the gap between industry, governments, and civil society. Our diverse clientele includes UN organisations, NGOs, and corporations. Through research, field assessments, training, and policy development, our growing virtual team based in over 15 countries ensures the highest standards of accountability and worker protection.

Embode offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. We offer a stimulating work environment, opportunities to lead and innovate, and a commitment to growing your skills in a fulfilling and international working environment.

See www.embode.co for more details about our work.

Types of Projects

Embode engages in diverse projects involving local businesses in your assigned country on subjects of labour standards and other human rights. This may include engaging with manufacturing and agricultural businesses, plantations, farmers, and workers from various backgrounds. The diversity of supply chains means that supply chain actors can come from all backgrounds across gender, socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicities, nationals or migrant workers. Consultants must have excellent communication skills to interact with communities, rights holders, and supply chain actors, ensuring a thorough understanding of their perspectives and developing collaborative action plans for improvements. Consultants will conduct research using agreed-upon tools, collect data, and present insightful recommendations and reports.

The Consultant will be responsible for:

Project management: Proven experience in managing projects and client portfolios, including resource management and adherence to timelines with minimal supervision.
Research and Field Data Gathering: Demonstrated capacity to conduct research using both qualitative and quantitative methods, efficiently coordinate fieldwork, and analyse gathered data to produce valuable insights.
Desk Reviews: Demonstrated ability to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, analysing and synthesising existing data from diverse sources, and effectively report findings that assess and address business and human rights issues.
Data Analysis and Report Writing: Proven experience in proficiently analysing data, distilling voluminous information into concise and well-organised reports, and effectively presenting findings to diverse audiences.
Supplier Engagement: Tangible experience interfacing with supply chain actors, such as manufacturing site managers and workers, or agricultural plantation managers, supervisors, or workers. This may also include interacting with farmers and other direct income earners in a supply chain.
Community Engagement: Experience and skills in being able to access and sit with rights holders and other stakeholders in local communities, both urban and rural. These may include workers (formal, informal, men, women etc) as well as their families, local community members and duty bearers.
Training and Capacity Building: Demonstrated ability to engage with participants in research and engagement, provide technical coaching, and facilitate collaboratively agreed action plans, as well as develop and deliver training and capacity building both online and in-person.
Organisational Aptitude: Proficient in planning, workflow structuring, and establishing clear priorities to maximise efficiency and productivity, while also being adaptable and skilled in navigating the dynamics of a virtual organisation, fostering effective communication, collaboration, and productivity within remote teams.

Required Competencies and Qualifications

Relevant qualifications: In the area of social sustainability, human rights, political science and/or international development, etc. Excellent knowledge of international standards related to business and human rights as well as labour rights, and progress in the global and local application of those standards.
English skills: Excellent level of fluency in spoken and written English and an ability to communicate in articulate and culturally-adaptive ways.
National language: Fluency in the national language, both written and spoken, is essential. Familiarity with any other regional languages or dialects is considered a bonus.
Communication: Proactively maintains regular and effective communication within the team through email, online platforms, and meetings, ensuring a collaborative and informed working environment.
Technical experience: At least 3 years’ experience in a relevant social field of business and human rights, labour rights and/or social protection (or child protection).
Field experience: At least 3 years’ experience working in communities, programme implementation, in direct service provision or case work. Capacity in monitoring and evaluation is an advantage.
Solution-oriented approach: Willingness to work flexibly within a small team where task-based work is often shared across a team depending on availability more than strict adherence to job descriptions. Confident in the ‘learning by doing’ approach.
Business Acumen: Familiarity with business practices, corporate social responsibility, and the ability to navigate the intersection of human rights and business.
Reliability: Ability to deliver to deadlines, work to agreed timeframes and take accountability for deliverables. Maintain strong boundary relationships with clients and partners.
Travel: Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as needed.