Policy Advisor, Business and Human Rights

We are seeking a Sustainability Policy Analyst with strong analytical and writing capabilities to support our work across responsible business sustainable finance workforce issues and responsible AI. This role will focus on monitoring regulatory developments producing timely and accessible policy briefings and leading the content aspects of policy consultations. A key part of the role is to interpret policy changes brief internal and external stakeholders design structured feedback frameworks and synthesise stakeholder input into high-quality consultation submissions. The successful candidate will also interpret insights drawn from our datasets and connect them to evolving policy expectations and market trends.

In this role as a Sustainability Policy Analyst you will:

• Track major regulatory and policy developments across priority regions in areas including ESG disclosures labour rights responsible AI and sustainable finance.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of global policy trends relevant to our programmes.
• Produce concise high-quality policy briefings and insight notes for internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Translate complex regulatory documents and policy consultations into clear actionable summaries.
• Support research and thought leadership with well-grounded policy analysis.
• Brief stakeholders on key policy developments to support informed contributions.
• Consolidate and synthesise stakeholder feedback into high-quality consultation submissions and letters aligned with organisational priorities.
• Ensure the accuracy clarity and policy nuance of all consultation outputs.
• Interpret insights from our datasets (workforce social and AI governance) and assess their relevance to emerging or existing policy requirements.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen policy narratives with evidence from our data.
• Provide regular policy updates and insight summaries to colleagues across the organisation.

Youre a fit for the role of Sustainability Policy Analyst if your background includes:

Minimum of 2 years experience in policy analysis research regulatory affairs ESG responsible technology or related fields.
Strong academic or professional grounding in public policy political economy international affairs ESG regulation or responsible technology.
Familiarity with themes such as sustainability reporting labour rights responsible AI or sustainable finance.
Knowledge of evolving ESG regulations like SFDR SDR CSRD CSDDD and frameworks including ISSB TISFD UNGP etc.
Excellent writing skills with the ability to distil complex policy content into clear concise insights.
Strong analytical skills including the ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative insights and link them to regulatory trends.
Ability to lead content-driven aspects of policy consultations: analysing consultation themes briefing stakeholders designing feedback structures and drafting consultation responses.
Strong conceptual thinking with attention to accuracy nuance and policy coherence.
Highly organised capable of managing multiple policy timelines and producing timely high-quality outputs.
Experience contributing to policy consultations or writing consultation submissions.
Understanding of how regulatory developments shape business practices investor expectations and ESG reporting.
Interest in responsible technology labour rights sustainable finance or related fields.
Comfortable with Excel for data analysis and basic visualisation.
Experience with data tools/software (e.g. Stata Python Power BI/Tableau).

#Interested in working for a dynamic global organization with a focus on social impact With hubs all over the world from Bangkok to Madrid to Rio de Janeiro join a truly international team with a shared goal of helping to build societies around the world that are free fair and informed.
Unique Approach: Our expertise in media and the law is world class. Our Relevance: With a focus on advancing media freedom fostering more inclusive economies and promoting human rights our work has never been more needed than right now.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market-leading benefits.
We are dedicated to the continual professional development of our employees and offer access to both in-house and external training opportunities.

About Thomson Reuters Foundation

TheThomson Reuters Foundationisthe corporatefoundation of Thomson Reuters the global news and information services company. As an independent charity registered in the UK and USA we leverage our media legal and data driven expertise to strengthen independent journalism enable access to the law and promote responsible business. Through news media development free legal assistance and data intelligence we aim to build free fair and informed societies.

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As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that we seek talented qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race color sex/gender including pregnancy gender identity and expression national origin religion sexual orientation disability age marital status citizen status veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here .

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