Lead Investigator Project “Dark Money”

About the Role

Reporting to the Director of Campaigns, with a dotted line to the Executive Director and Commissioning Editor, the post-holder will supply Good Law Project with a pipeline of exposés that will win commissions from the UK’s leading news outlets, including broadcast where possible, thereby contributing to the exposure of the Tufton Street axis, and helping to clean up our politics.

What we’re looking for:

• Track record of powerful investigative journalism, successfully pitching and bringing newsworthy stories of illicit activity conducted by harmful organisations or individuals to public attention
• Experience of reporting and managing risk (whilst still having appetite for substantial risk)
• Demonstrable experience of self-managing, remote working, reporting on a regular basis to the commissioning client
• Experience of working with open source data and proprietary databases
• Demonstrable experience of working with different departments across an organisation
• Great strategic nous – knowing when to push and when to find another route
• Digital journalist – instinct and experience for publishing across text, video, social media

Job Pack

You can download the full job pack which includes:

• the job purpose, the job description and person specification
• interview stages and dates
• Good Law Project values

Contact

If you have any questions about the role please contact: jobs@goodlawproject

Encouragement of equal opportunity and reasonable adjustments

Encouragement of equal opportunity and reasonable adjustments: We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and don’t discriminate on the basis of age, disability, LGBTQ+ or relationship status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion and belief, sex or social class. We particularly welcome applications from racialised ethnic groups or those with lived experience of disadvantage.