Open Ownership (OO) is driving the global shift towards transparency over who owns and controls companies, known as beneficial ownership transparency (BOT). We are working to create a world where governments, businesses, and citizens can readily access and effectively use accurate, complete, and high-quality evidence and information on the true owners of companies, not only to achieve transparency, but to reduce key global and national risks such as corruption and tax evasion, and create a more sustainable business environment.

To achieve this, our team of programme delivery, technology, and policy and research experts:

• Provides technical assistance to implement beneficial ownership transparency reforms

• Builds technology and capacity to use beneficial ownership data

• Conducts research and advocates to shape global policy and practice

We are a remote organisation with a global team of 15 individuals based in Argentina, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the United Kingdom (UK) where currently 50% of the organisation is based. We offer a fast-paced environment with an emphasis on agility and flexibility. People who enjoy learning and variety in their work will be particularly well-suited for our team. Although home-based, our remote team does meet in-person at least once a year (restrictions allowing).

Purpose of the post 

You will join a distributed team across the region and beyond, working on delivery of Open Ownership’s support to priority national governments in the region including, but not limited to,  Indonesia, Mongolia and the Philippines, delivering high-quality technical assistance. 
You’ll proactively work with colleagues across the organisation to develop and manage a portfolio of country relationships, apply Open Ownership’s tools to support national governments implementing beneficial ownership transparency, and share this knowledge across and beyond the organisation.

Key tasks and responsibilities

1. Lead Open Ownership’s support to national governments in the region  implementing BOT

• Deliver scoping assessments of the current status and context for BOT in your portfolio countries, drawing in expertise from policy and technical colleagues as required

• Based on Open Ownership’s Implementation Guide and Principles for Effective Beneficial Ownership Disclosure, develop and deliver tailored programmes to support countries to implement legal, technical and other changes required to publish open and impactful beneficial ownership data

• Provide high-quality demand driven technical assistance to national implementers on a range BOT implementation query topics

• Prepare responses to national consultations within the countries in your portfolio, working closely with the policy and research team

• Manage national level projects and grants to achieve high quality outputs. Grant management may include drafting project proposals, donor reports and fundraising efforts as determined

2. Develop and sustain working relationships with national stakeholders in countries of focus

• Grow and deepen relationships with in-country stakeholders across government, civil society and the private sector 

• Identify opportunities to further Open Ownership’s work in the region  in line with the 2022 - 2024 Open Ownership strategy.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to leverage related work being undertaken by others and maximise impact and use of Open Ownership tools and resources 

• Sustain partnerships with key Open Ownership partner organisations in the delivery of country projects and programmes as required 

3. Develop and share knowledge arising from Open Ownership’s in-country work

• Develop and share knowledge about national implementation contexts, successes and challenges

• Work with colleagues to feed national knowledge and learning into Open Ownership’s research and policy work, tools and package of country support

• Contribute to Open Ownership’s monitoring, evaluation and learning processes at project and organisation level

Candidate profile

You will be an action-oriented individual with a keen eye for detail. You’ll understand and have a passion for how policy, technology and data can together drive positive impact. 

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

• Experience of building relationships with senior stakeholders to influence policy

• Experience of managing international and national projects in a relevant field (e.g. natural resource governance, anti-corruption, digital transformation)

• Knowledge of priority for countries (Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines) for Open Ownership technical delivery and 6 + years relevant work history. Preference will be given to knowledge and experience working in or based in Indonesia, Mongolia or the Philippines 

• Knowledge of national and/or international policy in a field such as anti-corruption, good governance, open data, national security

• Business fluent one or more relevant languages for the region(s) of expertise

• Confidence with Microsoft Office and G-Suite, experience with Notion would be an asset 

• Willing and able to travel internationally up to 30% FTE ( travel restrictions permitting)

• A confident communicator, with an aptitude for explaining complex issues in an easily digestible manner

• A self-starter and can manage competing priorities without much supervision 

• Experience with managing direct reports and consultants. 

• A quick learner, able to swiftly understand information about complex issues. 

• Good attention to detail and highly organised

• Entrepreneurial and look for opportunities to solve problems and adaptable to changing context 

Application process 

We want to hear from all voices, and particularly encourage individuals of diverse and marginalised communities to apply.  If there is a requirement in the job description which you feel you don’t quite meet but you are still keen to apply then please do. We are particularly keen to hear from candidates based in Southeast Asia. 

Please note that Open Ownership is a fiscally sponsored organisation and the contract will be executed in the name of our fiscal sponsor Global Impact, a non-profit, on behalf of Open Ownership. 

Open Ownership uses the Applied platform for our recruitment which is designed to promote diversity and inclusion through anonymised applications and scenario-based questions. Our initial process will be solely based on your anonymised answers within the Applied platform. We will also ask you to submit your CV, but your CV will not be reviewed unless we decide to invite you to interview. If you reach the final stage of interviews, we will retain your details for future posts at Open Ownership, unless you tell us otherwise.

To apply, please complete the question-based process here by 23:59 BST on 14th August 2022.