Program Overview
WRI Indonesia’s energy program works to advance reliable, clean energy and reduce carbon emissions while balancing the need for economic advancement. WRI Indonesia believes that sustainable development highlights the need for integrated approaches to finding solutions aligned with the challenge of achieving economic, social, and environmental goals that are often interlinked. Therefore, the energy program aims to work across disciplines with the cities team, climate team, and the ocean to combine low-carbon technology systems, quantitative models, and other policy-making decision tools to achieve and support critical national initiatives in Indonesia, such as the acceleration of the achievement of national renewable energy targets and net zero ambition.
WRI Indonesia is enhancing its reputation as a thought leader in industrial decarbonization. Supporting Indonesia’s pledge to Net Zero Emissions, we seek to advance private sector contribution towards net zero at any business scale. With our partners in KADIN Net Zero Hub and the Ministry of Industry, we instill the SBTi framework through training and consultations with companies, then facilitate them to develop and implement the decarbonization strategy. Moreover, we also attempt to boost sector-wide decarbonization and competitiveness enhancement through roadmap and policies, including carbon economic value, green industrial development, and carbon abatement governance.
Specifically in the energy sector, one of our flagship initiatives is the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA). CEIA is an innovative public-private partnership initiative that advances policy and financing frameworks to meet the clean energy needs of industrial energy consumers. As the largest energy consumer group, the industrial sectors could use their buying power to drive energy transition through policy advocacy, business models, and technology adoption. The CEIA focuses on critical global emerging markets, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Colombia, and Mexico. CEIA Indonesia established a Working Group consisting of large energy buyers from industrial and commercial sectors and has been holding a series of dialogues to identify and refine areas for public-private collaboration and advance optimal solutions for corporate procurement of renewable energy.
Over the years, WRI Indonesia has focused extensively on the development of green electricity through a productive partnership with Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) that has resulted in two new green electricity product options: Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) and Green Energy as A Service (GEAS). In the next five years, we are advancing our expertise in decarbonization within the manufacturing industries (e.g., F&B, chemical, iron & steel, etc.). WRI Indonesia aims to build our institutional knowledge of clean heat solutions and energy efficiency measures to strengthen our impact on industry decarbonization issues. By focusing on several industrial subsectors, we will gain an in-depth understanding of each sector’s challenges, opportunities, and pathways to maximize emission reduction from energy use.
Job Highlight
The Energy Research Analyst will be tasked to conduct research and lead the development of specific activities in collaboration with other functions within the Energy & Sustainable Business Team. The research scope will vary depending on the project aims; however, it will revolve around mainstreaming clean heat technologies, advancing corporate decarbonization, just transition, climate finance, and sustainable industrial estate and urban development, to support sound economic analysis & data-informed policy-making. The analyst must stay abreast with the climate & energy policies, technological development, and emission abatement governance, such as standards and disclosure framework. Moreover, quantitative analytics, critical thinking, stakeholder collaboration and data acquisition, are expected and highly rewarded skills for this position. In strategizing the research target, data acquisition, and analysis, the analyst will work with other analysts and senior analysts within WRI Indonesia’s Energy & Sustainable Business (ESB) Team. Occasionally, the analyst will collaborate with WRI’s International Offices, mainly SEA, India, and China, to strengthen our regional research footprints.
This position will report directly to the Senior Manager in the ESB Team and co-lead with other analysts to develop research pipelines & and projects with heavy research content. Lastly, The Energy Research Analyst must firmly commit to implementing WRI’s mission and values – integrity, innovation, urgency, independence, and respect.
What You Will Do
What You Will Need
Required qualification:
Preferred qualification:
Contract Arrangement
Full-time with fixed-term employment agreement for up to August 2025 with 3 (three) months of consultancy contract apply before the fixed-term employment agreement started.
What we offer
Must have authorization to work in Indonesia to be eligible for this position.
Final candidates might be required to take a writing test and to produce two writing samples when needed.
How to apply: In order to be formally considered, please submit an updated resume and cover letter through WRI career portal.
Application close: 17.00 (DKI Jakarta local time), 31 July 2024. We will close the advert earlier when the best candidates are identified at earlier dates.
This is a locally engaged position; Indonesian nationals are encouraged to apply.
About Us
Founded in 1982, the World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, nonprofit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. We are working to address seven critical challenges that the world must overcome this decade to secure a sustainable future for people and the planet: climate change, energy, food, forests, water, sustainable cities, and the ocean. WRI has a global staff of over 1,800 people with work spanning 60 countries. We have offices in Africa, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Colombia and the United States, as well as a growing presence in other countries and regions.
The foundation of our work is delivering high-quality research, data, maps, and analysis to solve the world’s greatest environment and international development challenges and improve people’s lives. We work with leaders in government, business, and civil society to drive ambitious action and create change on the ground. Equally important, we bring together partners to develop breakthrough ideas and scale-up solutions for far-reaching, enduring impact.
Our mission and values:
WRI’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
Our values are shared ideals that bind us together: Integrity, Innovation, Urgency, Independence, Respect.
Our culture:
WRI is committed to advancing gender and social equity for human well-being in our mission and applies this principle to our organizational and programmatic practices. We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, we embrace all diversity and encourage women, gender diverse communities, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply. Recognizing our strong commitment to gender equality, WRI has also been awarded EDGE certification.
WRI Indonesia is national entity (Yayasan) associated with the World Resources Institute (WRI), a global environmental research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. WRI work with various stakeholders in the natural resources sector to support policy and management that are both profitable and sustainable. WRI work with leaders in more than 50 countries for more than 30 years, with offices in Brazil, China, Europe, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States.
Launched in early 2014, WRI Indonesia builds on WRI’s 10-year history in the country, and strengthens our impact on the ground. In the short-to-medium term, WRI Indonesia aims to expand its presence and portfolio to include projects in the climate, energy, as well as city and transportation programs.