Description:
This role will support the Human Rights Lead and VP Social Sustainability to:
- Assess, develop and coordinate responses to emerging human rights issues, including articles, external queries, complaints, etc.
- Monitor external human rights trends and developments
- Develop qualitative and qualitative performance metrics to track internal progress and effectiveness with respect to human rights performance – as part of CSDDD compliance
- Work with the social performance community / central squad to keep them informed of human rights trends and mainstream human rights into social performance work of bp
- Support the development of enhanced human rights due diligence or other approaches, including those identified through CSRD / CSDDD needs analysis
Key Accountabilities:
- Work with functions and human rights leads to identify, analyse and respond to external human rights allegations, queries, complaints, etc. Responsible for developing draft responses, under supervision of Human Rights Lead, keeping track of responses and developing an 'issues/allegations’ log.
- Support Human Rights lead in external relationship management, maintaining a schedule of annual engagements and updating information in Borealis as needed
- Conduct horizon scanning, monitor external trends and use this together with queries, and regulatory developments, as an input to determine help Human Rights Lead and VP Social Sustainability, and other SMEs in key functions to develop proposals to modify or enhance its approach to human rights risk and impact management at asset level
- Support the analysis of bp’s current processes and systems for human rights due diligence, including meaningful collaborator engagement and remedy, to identify potential opportunities for improvement.
- Support the development and implementation of potential opportunities for improvement through development of standards and approaches, e.g. around local grievance mechanisms, escalation and remedy, approaches to meaningful collaborator engagement and consultation, etc.
- Support the development and maintenance of an annual human rights saliency review processes.
- Support the review and identification of internal processes to align escalation and remedy of potentially significant local human rights issues identified.
- Work with functions and businesses to develop bp culture such that identification and remedy of human rights issues is celebrated and there is greater psychological safety around this. Approaches could include greater awareness raising, internal campaigns, etc.
- Support the development, update and maintenance of human rights related policies and positions.
Role Requirements:
- Subject matter expertise - Expertise in human rights broadly or focused on communities.
- Social sustainability - Understands the principles and practices of social sustainability, including Indigenous people and displacement management.
- Labour rights and modern slavery - experience in the management of human rights, labour rights and modern slavery risks through the supply chain, including bp workers and contractors.
- Research and insights - experienced in using research techniques to gain insights that inform the user experience and business strategy of products at bp.
- Intelligence writing and briefing - Demonstrates the cohesive application of each step of the intelligence cycle; setting requirements, data collection, analysis, and feedback through writing and briefings. Specifically, provide relevant and effective written and verbal recommendations to bp collaborators.