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🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

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American Oversight

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🏛️ Government

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Compliance

Government • Non-profit • Compliance

American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that focuses on promoting truth, accountability, and democracy by enforcing the public's right to access government records. They engage in investigations and litigation to uncover evidence of government misconduct, and work to ensure transparency in government activities, with a particular emphasis on issues like election integrity, attacks on education, and voting rights. Their efforts are aimed at strengthening democratic principles and holding those in power accountable for their actions.

📋 Description

• Monitor news and track other sources to identify emerging issues where American Oversight’s investigations can have the greatest impact • Craft strategic, litigation-ready public records requests to federal, state, and local agencies aimed at exposing decision-making, funding flows, and political influence. • Conduct rigorous review of document productions to identify key facts, patterns, inconsistencies, and gaps; analyze documents in context to surface unreported insights and emerging trends, and synthesize findings into clear, accurate, and strategically useful outputs such as newsworthy narratives that advance government accountability or actionable insights that equip partners’ advocacy and litigation. • Support American Oversight’s external engagement by contributing to meetings, briefings, and background conversations with journalists, advocates, and allies. • Communicate proactively with government agencies regarding public records requests, triaging priorities and working closely with the Legal team to ensure timely and effective pursuit of responsive materials. • Support document processing and information management, ensuring incoming records are well-organized, searchable, and accessible. • Draft public-facing content — including blog posts, reports, talking points, and briefing materials — that distills investigative findings into clear, contextualized, and actionable narratives, as needed. • Contribute to organizational initiatives and special projects as needed, bringing an investigative lens to emerging priorities and cross-functional efforts. • Other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years post-graduate experience in government investigations, investigative journalism, or policy research, or a related field involving in-depth investigative research and analyses. • Interest in American Oversight’s mission of government accountability and transparency; commitment to public interest advocacy. • Strong skills in the following areas: Problem Solving and Critical Thinking • Communication • Project and Time Management • Judgment and Decision Making • Strategic Thinking • Collaboration • An understanding of and fluency in relevant news developments, the political landscape, and how public records can inform news coverage, and government action, and accountability. • Experience working in and/or desire to contribute to workplaces with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. • Self-motivated, collegial, and able to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. • Strong technology skills with an aptitude to learn quickly, ramp up on, or test new platforms or technology (e.g., AirTable). • Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides) and file-sharing platforms (Dropbox).

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • Generous paid time off • Paid office closure from Christmas Eve to New Years’ Day • 403(b) with up to 4% employer match • Flexible scheduling policy aligned with core business hours • Summer Fridays • Up to $100/month reimbursement for internet services and personal device • Professional development stipend • $400/yr home office stipend • Commuter benefits