Fact Checker, Editor

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $68k - $80k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✏️ Editor

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Project On Government Oversight

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1981

🤝 Non-profit

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Government • Social Impact

Project On Government Oversight is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting accountability and effectiveness within the federal government. It investigates corruption, injustice, and abuse of power within government institutions, advocating for commonsense reforms to strengthen democracy and promote transparency. POGO engages in civic advocacy, public policy analysis, and congressional oversight to ensure a government that serves all people fairly. The organization focuses on key issues including accountability, checks and balances, civil and human rights, corruption, abuse of power, and national security.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• 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