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Salary: £53,100 to £59,000 per annum, depending on experience
Contract: Fixed-term maternity cover, full-time, 11 months.
Location: London (hybrid, two days a week in office)
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is looking for an experienced, dynamic, and ambitious editor to lead its Enablers team. This is a fixed‑term maternity cover. The team has delivered explosive exposés of the UK’s role in facilitating corruption and wrongdoing around the world over the past five years, tackling the flow of dirty money that undermines democracy and society. Our reporting has met the Bureau’s core mission of achieving real-world impact, with investigations that have led to criminal charges and prosecutions worldwide.
We pursue under‑reported topics in a person‑centred way, showing the impacts of wrongdoing on real people. We aim to produce stories that are accessible and relevant to a broad UK audience, not just those who follow finance and corruption news. We need someone who can get stuck in at all stages of the editorial process, support the team’s two reporters, ensure ongoing work aligns with the team’s strategy, maximise impact through partnership and content levers, and keep a steady stream of quicker stories for our audience.
Responsibilities
* Lead a three‑person team delivering hard‑hitting and impactful investigations, providing a high standard of well‑structured management.
* Ensure the effective delivery of several big, ambitious projects already underway.
* Guide the team’s reporting and ensure it is robust.
* Oversee the team’s impact strategy and deliver impact tasks in the absence of the usual impact producer.
* Edit copy and oversee a rigorous fact‑checking and right‑of‑reply process, and identify any legal or other risks involved.
* Conceive of and deliver innovative output that reaches a broad range of audiences beyond investigations.
* Produce or contribute to social media, podcast, and video output.
* Help meet our ambitious diversity, equity, and inclusion targets across journalism, personnel, and policies.
* Manage reporting partnerships with freelancers and other outlets.
* Oversee project budgets, with support from our Finance team.
* Support the Development team in producing funder applications, reports, and budgets.
* Represent the Bureau at events, conferences, and in the media.
You’ll be a good fit if:
* You are ambitious and passionate about your work, and can put the public interest of your journalism first.
* You can show that you are deeply interested in enablers of corruption and know who the major players are.
* You have at least five years’ experience of leading investigations – coming up with story ideas, following leads, handling robust evidence, developing contacts, and protecting vulnerable sources.
* You have a rigorous understanding of the methods and techniques of investigative journalism, from data and FOI to cultivating human sources.
* You are diligent with right‑to‑reply and legal processes, with an excellent understanding of media law and journalism ethics.
* You can edit copy to a high standard.
* Your leadership style is collaborative, and you are excited about being a facilitative leader rather than a top‑down one; you align with the Bureau’s values of openness, communication, and solution‑focused development.
* You believe in journalism’s role in making a difference and think organisations must actively ensure their work is heard and sparks change.
* You are willing to take creative risks on new ideas, including innovative ways of telling complex stories that are often hard for people outside the City of London to follow.
* You consider how diversity and equity issues are relevant to this area and have ideas that go beyond tokenism in addressing them.
About the Bureau
The Bureau is the UK’s largest independent investigative journalism organisation. It exists to inform the public about the realities of power. Our investigations expose systemic wrongs, challenge misinformation, and spark change, with no corporate or political agenda. We collaborate strategically to maximise the impact of our reporting and share our findings openly with local, national, and international media outlets.
Benefits
* 25 days of annual leave
* Option to work a nine‑day fortnight (by reducing annual leave)
* Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
* EAP – Employee assistance programme
* Enhanced sick pay
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay (after 12 months’ service)
* Learning and development opportunities
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme
To apply
Please email an up‑to‑date CV and covering letter to enablersjob@tbij.com by the end of the day on Wednesday 26th November. You should also fill out our anonymous Equality Monitoring Form here to help us track who we are reaching.
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