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Jobs

Anglophone Southern & Western Africa Researcher & Representative

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

2012-06-13, Issue 588

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/82904

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, an independent charity, tracks the social & environmental impacts of 5100 companies worldwide. We seek a highly-motivated person, based in South Africa, to lead our work on Anglophone countries in Southern & Western Africa. NGO experience, excellent English language skills, and the right to work in South Africa are required. Fees: R190,000/year for 3 days per week work. Further details are below. Closing date 3 July.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s website is the leading information hub on this subject. The United Nations & ILO link their websites to ours. Mary Robinson chairs the Centre’s International Advisory Network. 23 academic institutions comprise our Academic Partners, including Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand; Centre for Corporate Citizenship, University of South Africa; Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria; Socio-Economic Rights Project of Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape.

You will be responsible to the Centre’s Director, Deputy Director & Research Director, working with them and other staff to further develop the organization, its website, its company response process, and its outreach.

Your responsibilities will include:
• Online research and input of information onto the Resource Centre website;
• Inviting companies to respond to civil society concerns about their conduct; allegations and company responses are posted on our website and in our Weekly Updates (sent to 14,000 opinion leaders worldwide);
• Representing the Resource Centre regionally, at meetings & conferences;
• Building contacts with, and seeking information from, a broad range of people working in African NGOs, companies, media, investment firms, universities, governments, etc;
• Conducting regional research missions;
• Making a special effort to draw attention to under-reported issues & cases in the region;
• Participating in Skype meetings with all the Centre’s global staff, every two weeks.

The location of this post within South Africa is flexible, depending on where the applicant is based.

Further details about this post (including job description & application form) can be found via this link:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/AnglophoneSouthernWesternAfricaResearcher

The application form is required; we do not accept curriculum vitae or résumés.

For further information about the Resource Centre, see “About us” on our website. If you need to contact us, please email Danielle McMullan (mcmullan@business-humanrights.org) with “Africa Researcher” in the subject line.

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