Program Overview
The Energy and Sustainable Business (ESB) program works to advance decarbonization among businesses, accelerating a just transition towards net-zero emissions in Indonesia while balancing the need for economic development. Supporting Indonesia’s pledge on Net Zero Emissions and energy transition, we are seeking to advance the private sector's contribution towards net zero, at any scale of business. With our partners in the companies, KADIN Net Zero Hub, business associations, industrial parks, PLN, and key ministries, we instill the decarbonization journey framework through training and technical assistance with the private sector. This long-term effort requires both policy and technical knowledge, combined with WRI’s convening power, to ultimately move the key stakeholders to take action and achieve the intended emission reduction.
One of our projects, Sustainable Energy Transition in Indonesia (SETI), has the main objective to support Indonesia’s energy transition by increasing the share of renewable energy and improving the energy efficiency of key industries, as well as the built environment. To achieve this, SETI follows a multi-level approach that focuses on the demand perspective: it demonstrates innovative technologies and business cases to encourage private sector actors to replicate successful renewable energy and energy efficiency approaches in industry. This is accompanied by improving the readiness of financial instruments for sustainable energy investments. Through piloting integrated energy planning and its implementation on the municipal level, SETI will also bring the topic of decarbonization to the sub-national level. Finally, SETI loops back results, lessons learned, and experiences to the national level to design a relevant and fertile policy framework.
The WRI’s ESB team is advancing our expertise in nurturing the ecosystem of decarbonization within manufacturing industries (e.g. cement, chemical, iron & steel, etc.), strengthening our institutional knowledge on clean heat solution and energy efficiency, and to co-create energy supply strategies to meet the industries’ demand for clean energy with our partners. Industrial Park is an important part of the industrial climate transition where innovations are urgently needed. Its unique nature of operation -clusters of industries, managed by an industrial park management company- opens opportunities for more integrated climate solutions such as integrated energy planning, circularity, district heating/cooling, and integrated green procurement. Through the ESB program, we aim to support industrial park transformation by adopting a sustainable framework for industrial parks and implementing more climate solutions to provide replicable best practices.
Job Highlight
The Industrial Park Analyst will play a key role in shaping WRI Indonesia’s strategy and research on industrial decarbonization within industrial parks. This role directly supports the organization’s mission to reduce emissions, increase clean energy adoption, and improve productivity across high-emitting industrial zones.
At the project level, the analyst will work closely with the SETI Senior Project Lead to provide technical, analytical, and strategic input for activities targeting energy transition in industrial parks. These include industrial profiling, energy audits, mapping infrastructure needs, identifying investment barriers, and assessing the potential for low-carbon technologies. The Analyst will support the development of decarbonization pathways and help design enabling frameworks that promote cleaner production systems in collaboration with industrial park managers, tenant companies, and government stakeholders.
Beyond SETI, the Analyst is expected to contribute to WRI’s broader energy and sustainable business agenda by supporting research publications, policy recommendations, knowledge-sharing platforms, and stakeholder engagement.
The Industrial Park Analyst will be reporting directly to SETI Senior Program Lead while expected to work closely and collaboratively with Energy Effciency Senior Specialist and other relevat personnel within the team. This position will be based in Jakarta with office-flex working arrangement and travel requirement as needed. In support of WRI's DEI commitment, you are responsible for actively participating in these collaborative efforts by integrating equity into your work, our workplace, and the organizational culture.
What You Will Do
Research
Project Coordination
What You Will Need
Contract Arrangement
Full-time with fixed-term employment agreement up to 30 April 2026 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), 28 May 2025. 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.