[Hiring] Senior Analyst - Forest Crime Investigations @The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC)

Role Description

The GI-TOC is seeking a Senior Analyst based in Indonesia to lead its country-level investigative work on forest crime under the NICFI-funded “From Roots to Enrichment” initiative (2026–2029), and to serve as GI-TOC’s primary focal point for engagement with Indonesian government counterparts on forest crime and related organized crime issues.

Indonesia’s deforestation story is driven by:

• Criminal networks moving illegal timber through legitimate supply chains
• Illegal mining (gold, nickel, tin) that clears forest at the extractive frontier
• Land-grabbing operations that launder stolen concessions into plantation agriculture
• Corrupt officials, financiers, and trading houses that make these activities profitable

The role builds on existing GI-TOC engagement with illicit flows in Indonesia, including:

• Investigative and OSINT-based work under the ECO-SOLVE programme on wildlife trafficking
• Collaboration with civil society organisations working on deforestation, mining, and Indigenous issues

Qualifications

• Minimum 5–7 years’ relevant experience in investigations, analysis, or intelligence work on organised crime, environmental crime, mining, corruption, or related areas
• Working knowledge of Indonesia’s law enforcement, prosecutorial, and environmental governance architecture
• Demonstrated track record on environmental crime, illegal mining, illegal logging, land conversion, or closely adjacent fields in Indonesia
• Existing working relationships with Indonesian enforcement agencies, prosecutors, environmental ministries, financial intelligence, anti-corruption bodies, or credible civil society counterparts
• Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English, written and oral
• Demonstrated ability to work in politically sensitive environments

Requirements

• Coordination experience, managing the work of multiple teams or workstreams simultaneously
• Familiarity with the role of corporate actors in enabling forest crime
• Existing relationships with investigative journalists, academic networks, or civil society organisations working on forest and mining crime
• Strong OSINT capability, including corporate tracing, land and concession registry work, satellite imagery interpretation, and open-source financial analysis
• Experience producing outputs that have been taken up by enforcement authorities or used in policy processes

Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Support for professional development and learning

Personal Attributes

• Investigative and self-directed
• Politically astute
• Discreet and security-conscious
• Relationship manager
• Operationally resilient
• Personable
• A clear writer