The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) seeks a part-time Researcher to conduct the following activities in Athens, Greece between October 2023 and February 2024. The Researcher will work closely with IHRB’s Global Programme Manager, Built Environment as well as with other project partners. We envisage that 30-45 days will be required in total for this work.

This research in Athens is part of a project comprising similar research cycles in four pairs of cities over two years, and will be conducted in parallel with research in Valparaiso, Chile.

The global project “Building for Today and for the Future” is developing a collaborative agenda for a just transition of the built environment. It will identify pathways to ensure that decarbonisation and resilience efforts in cities concurrently reduce social inequity and respect human rights. Where there are specific obstacles on these pathways, the project will seek to address and overcome them.

The three interconnected outcomes and activities of the project are:

Strengthening the evidence base: Deep-dive action research in eight cities globally, linking up to their relevant national and regional contexts;

Shifting mindsets: Visioning sessions that invite diverse local stakeholders to imagine what a just and sustainable built environment looks like;

Changing policy and practice: Strategic communications and policy advocacy to influence government and industry practices.

Job Email id: recruitment(at)ihrb.org