The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is seeking a Senior Researcher join our team in delivering high quality research, analysis, interventions, and strategies on a full range of labour rights issues, with particular focus on freedom of association and collective bargaining, living wage, and forced labour and modern slavery in supply chains. All work will be done in active collaboration with trade unions, labour and women’s organisations in the Global South, and will involve engagement with companies, investors, and policy makers.
The successful candidate will play a key strategic role in our growing Labour Rights Team composed of researchers and project managers. The successful candidate will report to the Director for International Programmes, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
About the organization
The 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. We are a global organization that is rooted in fifteen regions, and committed to cooperation with diverse actors in our movement. We have over 80 members of our Global Team based around the world who work with a rich network of human rights advocates in eight languages. Our work covers the full gamut of human rights in business, with three priority issues: labour rights; responsible resource use; and protection of civic freedoms and human rights defenders.
Our three primary global approaches to deliver this vision are:
We place strong emphasis on our alliance with grassroots organisations facing often profound inequalities of power in protecting their rights; alongside our ability to influence responsible business, investors, and governments for transformative change. Our three primary approaches to deliver this vision are to: strengthen allies and movements; drive accountability for abuse; and influence decision-makers.
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The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is a diverse, global team. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone and we acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in progressive movements. We particularly encourage applications from the Global South, and from Black, Asian, Latinx and other minorities, people with disabilities, and people who identify as LGBTQ+.