International Centre for Tax and Development

Attorney

• Review the main Indonesian legal and regulatory provisions relevant to red mud management and utilization
• Assess how existing rules apply to red mud handling, storage, transport, testing, treatment, reprocessing, utilization, and site-level management
• Identify legal and regulatory issues affecting the feasibility of red mud valorization and utilization options
• Assess institutional roles and coordination needs across ministries, regulators, technical agencies, and subnational authorities
• Identify areas requiring legal clarification, regulatory guidance, policy direction, or institutional coordination
• Compare the implications of the current regulatory baseline with improved regulatory or policy approaches
• Provide practical recommendations for the overall business case and implementation roadmap
• Conduct desk research of Indonesian laws, regulations, policy documents, government guidance, standards, and secondary literature
• Conduct targeted stakeholder consultations with officials, technical experts, legal experts, industry representatives, and relevant institutions
• Coordinate with IISD, IGF, TEKMIRA, and CORE Indonesia to align legal analysis with technical, economic, environmental, and operational findings
• Validate findings and incorporate feedback from IISD and relevant stakeholders
• Prepare an approximately 5–7 page chapter in English, excluding references or annexed legal tables
• Report to IISD’s project lead and work closely with IISD and IGF experts
• Participate in coordination meetings, internal review discussions, and reasonable clarification or revision requests
• Maintain confidentiality of draft outputs, stakeholder inputs, institutional positions, and internal project materials

Consultant – Legal and Regulatory Considerations, Red Mud Management

Research Analyst

• Conduct research on ESG management practices of Chinese copper and cobalt mining and processing companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Analyze engagement models between Chinese actors and international ESG standard-setting bodies
• Conduct desk-based research and review policy documents, academic literature, and industry reports
• Participate in inception discussions with the project team
• Prepare a detailed chapter outline for approval
• Conduct stakeholder interviews as needed with government agencies, industry associations, standards-setting bodies, mining companies, civil society, and affected local communities
• Collect, document, anonymize, and aggregate primary data as required
• Prepare an inception note describing methodology, research approach, and chapter structure
• Draft an approximately 3,000-word report chapter with complete citations and references
• Provide comparative analysis of ESG practices over time and across major mining companies and mineral processors in the DRC
• Analyze the scope, operationalization, limitations, and potential of Chinese-international ESG standards engagement arrangements
• Develop recommendations to improve ESG practices of Chinese copper and cobalt mining and processing companies in the DRC
• Revise the chapter based on reviewer comments
• Participate in review meetings as required
• Deliver an annotated chapter outline, stakeholder interview summary report, first draft, and final revised draft

Consultant – Research on Chinese Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices

• Conduct research on ESG performance and challenges in the DRC’s copper and cobalt mining and mineral processing industries
• Draft a chapter on ESG implementation progress and remaining challenges
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, both virtual and in person
• Conduct potential fieldwork, including mine-site visits and visits to communities affected by mining and mineral processing
• Analyze legal and regulatory texts, policy documents, academic literature, and industry reports
• Conduct complementary desk-based research
• Participate in inception discussions with the project team
• Prepare a detailed chapter outline for approval
• Draft a chapter with complete citations and references to secondary sources and primary data
• Revise the chapter based on internal and external reviewer comments
• Participate in review meetings as required
• Deliver an inception note, annotated chapter outline, stakeholder interview summary report, first draft, and final draft
• Provide recommendations to improve ESG practices of copper and cobalt mining and processing companies in the DRC

Consultant – Legal and Regulatory Considerations, Red Mud Management

Consultant – Research on Chinese Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices

Research Consultant – Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices in Mining and Mineral Processing