Fact Checker/Editor

Responsibilities include:

• Manage multiple project simultaneously, often under tight deadlines.

• Review, assess, and provide feedback to ensure POGO’s written projects are accurate, fair, clear, and nonpartisan.

• Assist as needed with proofreading.

• Assist as needed with maintaining POGO’s style guide.

• Collaborate with POGO’s writers to help their ideas and stories succeed.

• Brainstorm, develop, and implement ways to ensure that POGO’s written products reflect the organization’s commitment to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

• Maintain close collaboration and communication with other editorial team members.

• Maintain understanding of best practices in fact checking and editing through regular professional development.

Qualifications include:

• Four years of experience fact checking or researching for a newsroom, nonprofit, or other content-producing organization

• Demonstrated experience editing a range of different content types and the ability to fact check a range of work including emails, op-eds, testimony, reports, breaking news investigations.

• Knowledge of AP style

• Commitment to accuracy, nonpartisanship, and attention to detail.

• Demonstrated commitment to working in a collaborative, respectful manner demonstrating a strong commitment to POGO’s justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.

• Demonstrated track record of taking initiative to solve problems and adapt to changing circumstances.

• Ability to manage confidential information with discretion.

• (+) Familiarity with US federal government policy, structure, and operations preferred.

• (+) Familiarity with general principles and best practices for public sector transparency and accountability preferred.

Compensation, benefits, and other information:

This position is eligible for remote work from anywhere within the United States provided you are available during POGO’s work hours of 9AM-6PM EST.

This is a full time, nonexempt, at will position. This position is grant funded for a period of one year and continued employment is contingent upon the receipt of direct grant funds. This position includes the listed benefits:

• Competitive nonprofit salary commensurate with experience in the range of 68K-80K

• Health, dental and vision insurance

• 403(b) employee investment plan available, with employer contribution once eligible

• Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage

• Paid holiday, vacation, and sick leave

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