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Investigative Journalist

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📰 Journalist

🗣️🇧🇷🇵🇹 Portuguese Required

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Posted on Instituto Cordial's careers page, not through a job board

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Instituto Cordial

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Instituto Cordial is a Brazil-based social development institute and consultancy that uses data, applied research, and cross-sector collaboration to design, evaluate, and scale public-interest initiatives. It provides projects and consulting for governments, companies and civil-society organizations, offers impact-acceleration services (strategy, indicators, evaluation), and manages initiatives addressing mobility, public health, education and urban policy. Its work focuses on evidence-based decision-making, measurement of social impact, and convening networks to inform public policy and improve program effectiveness.

📋 Description

• Conduct investigations and research into the illicit market for obesity medications • Monitor news, seizures, regulatory actions, court proceedings, legislative developments, and other relevant sources • Cross-reference and systematize information from different sources to assess the scale of and understand how the illicit market operates • Identify and assess sources, documents, data, and evidence for the Observatory’s archive • Investigate cases, practices, actors, and potential routes and structures within the illicit market • Produce research inputs for quarterly bulletins, investigative dossiers, press releases, and advocacy materials • Support the identification of experts, sources, and institutions relevant to the Observatory • Contribute to the production of content for disseminating and communicating findings • Transform fragmented information into intelligence, evidence, and well-substantiated narratives to support the Brazilian Obesity Panel’s communications and policy advocacy efforts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism • Experience or additional training in investigative journalism, research, data science, public policy, healthcare, or related fields preferred • Graduate degree or specialized courses in investigative journalism, data journalism, public policy, healthcare, data science, or related fields will be considered an advantage • Strong investigative and information-gathering skills • Ability to research, cross-reference, and validate information from different sources • Analytical thinking to identify patterns, connections, and evidence related to the illicit medication market • Ability to work with data, public documents, and regulatory or judicial information • Strong writing skills and the ability to synthesize complex information • Organizational skills and autonomy to conduct investigations and systematize sources and evidence • Open-source research and public database research • Information gathering and fact-checking • Research into regulatory actions, court proceedings, and judicial decisions • Interviewing and source relationship management • Production of reports, bulletins, press releases, and investigative content • Organization and systematization of information

🏖️ Benefits

• Commitment to diversity and inclusion, including women, Black people, Indigenous people, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and people with special needs • Remote work • Possibility of renewing the contract every six months, up to a total term of two years

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