ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION JOB VACANCIES 2023
Job Title: Field Researcher
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) exists to protect the natural world and defend our basic human right to a secure environment.
EJF works internationally to inform policy and drive systemic, durable reforms to protect our environment and defend human rights. We investigate and expose abuses and support environmental defenders, Indigenous peoples, communities, and independent journalists on the frontlines of environmental injustice. Our campaigns aim to secure peaceful, equitable, and sustainable futures.
Our investigators, researchers, filmmakers, and campaigners work with grassroots partners and environmental defenders across the globe.
Our work to secure environmental justice aims to protect our global climate, ocean, forests, and wildlife and defend fundamental human rights.
EJF has worked in Indonesia since 2018 to end illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and human rights abuses on fishing vessels, build journalist capacity to report on environmental crimes and actively promote improvements to policymaking, corporate governance, and management of fisheries.
EJF is seeking to employ a full-time ‘Field Researcher’’ to work alongside our Field Research Manager and other team members to collect primary and secondary data relevant to EJF’s campaign of combating IUU fishing and human rights abuses in the fishing industry.
Successful candidates should be comfortable working independently, be adept at team coordination, conduct both desk-based and field-based research, and be prepared to travel within Indonesia, potentially at short notice.
Post Title: Field Researcher
Type of appointment: Fixed term.
Remuneration: $800-1,000 per month, depending on experience.
Duration of contract: 12 months (potentially renewable)
Location: Central Java-based with the opportunity to travel across Indonesia.
This position is open to Indonesian citizens only.
The key responsibilities:
- Traveling across Java and possibly wider Indonesia to identify and interview Indonesian fishermen who have worked on foreign fishing vessels.
- Building cooperation with EJF’s potential local partners across Indonesia to help identify fishermen and other valuable sources of informants.
- Conducting Internet and social media research, collecting and organizing collaborative evidence from primary and secondary sources.
- Maintaining good relationships with interviewees and local partners.
- Assisting field trips of national and international staff to conduct further research and produce visual and narrative campaigns.
Essential skills and experience:
- Bahasa Indonesian native speaker
- Advanced proficiency in the English language,
- A degree in any relevant discipline (journalism, international relations, development studies, social-political science, environmental science, marine sciences, etc),
- Experience working in migrant and human rights issues for at least 1 year,
- Ability to use desk-based internet research to gather information. Having a knowledge of OSINT is favourable.
- Ability to work with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, etc.) and Google-based documents (G drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc.)
- Having a good eye and skills in photography is desirable,
- Willing to travel across Indonesia.
Deadline: 15 November 2023 (applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis)
Please submit a CV with a cover letter to: recruitment@ejfoundation.org