Program Overview

The Energy and Sustainable Business (ESB) program works to advance decarbonization among businesses, accelerating a just transition towards net zero emission in Indonesia while balancing the need for economic development. Supporting Indonesia’s pledge on Net Zero Emission, we are seeking to advance private sectors contribution towards net zero, at any scale of business. With our partners in KADIN Net Zero Hub, PLN, and key ministires, we instill the decarbonization journey framework through trainings and technical assistance with companies, including facilitating the development and implementation of decarbonization strategy for companies. This long-term effort requires both policy and technical knowledge, combined with WRI’s convening power, to ultimately move the key stakeholders to take actions and achieve the intended emission reduction.

As the co-founder of Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi) and Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), we utilize these framework and tool that facilitate ambitious companies for near to long-term climate targeting driven by research, as to reach net zero emission (NZE) commitments toward limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 C, within and beyond the companies’ value chain. SBTi provides global net zero standard that is implemented by WRI, among its partners, as think tank that provides best available guidance and quality assurance for net zero journey by businesses. By adapting the tools to the national context, WRI Indonesia aims to increase Indonesia industries’s competitiveness through strengthened standards and climate mitigation/adapation measures which ultimately significantly contribute to Indonesia emissions reduction.

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 commercial and industrial energy consumers. We believe that as the largest energy consumer group, the commercial and industrial sector could use their buying power to drive energy transition through policy advocacy, business model and technology adoption. The CEIA focuses on key emerging markets across the globe including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Colombia, and Mexico. CEIA Indonesia established a Working Group, consisting of energy large 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.

In the next 5 years, we are advancing our expertise in decarbonization within manufacturing industries (e.g. F&B, chemical, iron &steel, etc.). WRI Indonesia aims to build our institutional knowledge on clean heat solution and energy efficiency measures to strengthen our impact in industry decarbonization issue. By focusing on several industrial subsectors, we will gain in depth understanding about each sector’s challenges, opportunities and pathway to maximize emission reduction from the energy use.

WRI Indonesia believe that sustainable development highlights the need for integrated approaches to finding solutions that are aligned with the challenge of achieving economic, social and environmental goals that are often interlinked. This can be daunting task, as the interlinkages are complex and context specific and depend, inter alia, on the  issues under consideration, the geographic and temporal scales, sector of the industry, and the existing technologies. Therefore, the ESB program works 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 key national initiatives in Indonesia such as the acceleration of the achievement of national renewable energy targets and net zero ambition.

Job Highlight

As the low-carbon technology analyst, you will be tasked to conduct research and advisory on low-carbon development strategic analysis through EE and RE technologies for corporates and industrial sectors. This includes mapping the decarbonization technologies in strategic industrial sectors, contributing to developing the industrial decarbonization roadmap and conducting techno-economic analysis for particular project implementation.

This position will be based in Jakarta with office-flex working arrangement. Reporting directly to Senior Manager for Energy and Sustainable Business while working very closely and collaboratively with research team within the Energy and Sustainable Business portfolio.

What You Will Do

Knowledge and Research (70%)

• Compare and benchmark with current and technologies under development
• Conduct technology and market landscape analysis scanning for companies and institutions involved in various technology areas (for foresight analysis)
• Contextualize technology analysed into industrial decarbonization roadmap
• Conduct a techno-economic analysis of low-carbon technology installation
• Contribute to the development policy recommendations for just and accelerated industrial decarbonization.
• Support the development of lucrative business models of low-carbon technology
• Support JETP Secretariat and Working Group’s analysis and development of investment plan, specifically on the topic of industrial decarbonization

Stakeholder Engagement (20%)

• Stay abreast with technology trends, key initiatives/actors and technology providers.
• Initiate and maintain collaboration with the scientific, expert community, and other key research partner
• Facilitate any meetings and workshops as per project plan
• Represent WRI Indonesia in JETP Secretariat and Working Group’s meetings and events

Management Support (10%)

• Co-coordinate project timelines and responsibilities for effective project delivery, in coordination with project leads.
• Co-develop proposals, progress updates, and reports to donors.
• Actively contribute in ESB strategy development, capacity building, and program expansion.
• Closely engage with relevant WRI researchers, operations, and business support teams.
• Support administrative tasks for activities implementation as necessary.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant full-time work experience in industries with energy-related job desks, energy consulting firms, or think tanks.
• Background and expertise on one or more of the following topics would be considered an asset:
  1. Renewable energy technologies for power or heat.
  2. Energy efficiency
  3. Specific knowledge of process technology in energy-intensive industries, such as iron & steel, cement, and chemicals.
• Ability to conduct quantitative analysis and contextualize the findings from the research.
• Ability to support discrete elements of research projects with manager guidance, e.g. systematically reviewing and synthesizing existing literature; collecting, cleaning, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing data; defining research questions.
• Ability to communicate research approach and findings effectively to internal and external audiences.
• Excellent communication, listening, and interpersonal skills to maintain positive coordination within the team and with external counterparts.
• Experience in writing and/or reviewing research papers and scientific articles pertaining to research topic.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced office environment and cross-sectoral themes independently and as part of a global team across time zones.
• Adaptable to rapidly changing priorities and able to manage multiple deadlines and deliver high-quality work products.
• Highly motivated, can-do attitude, proactive work style, organizational skills, and work ethic.
• Detail-oriented and organized thinker who can juggle multiple competing priorities.
• Ability and willingness to travel when assigned
• Legally able to work in Indonesia

Preferred qualification

• Master’s Degree in advanced engineering or low-carbon technology.
• Experience in manufacturing industries.
• Experience in energy modelling, such as LEAP.
• Knowledge of the fossil fuel industry, hard to abate and fossil-dependent sectors.

Performance Standard

• Knowledge products show rigorous analytical content.
• All deliverables are carried out in a timely, satisfactory fashion with minor supervision.
• Positively maintained relationships with external and internal stakeholders.

Contract Arrangement

Full-time with fixed-term employment agreement up to 1 (one) year period.

What we offer

• Salary that is commensurate with experience and skills
• Competitive and comprehensive benefit package
• Access to the WRI global network
• Opportunity to join and/or get involved in different working groups
• A workplace that strives to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work
• A chance to have an impact and to develop your career within a mission driven organization

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: 1700 (DKI Jakarta local time), 15 April 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, 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