Anglophone Southern & Western Africa Researcher & Representative

Fees: 190,000 South African rand per year for working 21 hours per week - Fees are equivalent of R316,667 for full-time work.

closing date: 3 July 2012

Applicants must have:

• excellentEnglishlanguageskills;

• therighttoworkinSouthAfrica(youmusthavethisnow);and

• previousworkorvolunteerexperienceinanon-profit organization addressing human rights, labour rights, development, environment, or other social issues.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, the international NGO tracking the social & environmental impacts (positive & negative) of 5100 companies, is seeking a highly-motivated person to be its Anglophone Southern & Western Africa Researcher & Representative. The Centre’s website is the leading information hub on this subject. The United Nations & ILO link their websites to ours. 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.

We also have an Eastern Africa Researcher based in Kenya; a Francophone Africa Researcher in Senegal; and eight other regional researchers across the world.

The focus of your coverage will be Anglophone Southern & Western Africa. 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.

You must have an ability to represent the organization in Anglophone Southern & Western Africa and build a broad range of contacts. You will need strong research and analytical skills to identify relevant materials for the website, categorise the information, and compose brief summaries. You will need to be willing to do a significant amount of online input to help keep the website updated. Rigorous attention to detail, sound political judgment, and the ability to present information objectively and impartially are also required.

You must have good word processing skills, and the ability to function under pressure and manage a heavy workload. Good organizational, communication & interpersonal skills, and strong commitment to human rights, are essential. You must be willing to work on your own initiative, prioritise with minimal supervision, and work independently as well as function as part of a team. You must be self-servicing in terms of administrative tasks. As we do not have office premises in South Africa, you will need to be willing and able to work from home and/or from a host institution (e.g. if a university or NGO is willing to provide office space).

Further details about this post (including job description & application form) can be found via the “Announcements” box on our homepage: www.business-humanrights.org. 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 e-mail Danielle McMullan (mcmullan [at] business-humanrights [dot] org) with “Africa Researcher” in the subject line.