Function: Inexperienced Finance Reporter
Contract: full-time, 12 months (with potential for extension with renewed funding)
Location: hybrid working association between house and our London workplace
Wage: £40,000-45,000, depending on expertise

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is in search of an skilled monetary journalist to affix our international Surroundings workforce.

We’re increasing our award-winning protection of the impacts of the worldwide meals and vitality techniques on our local weather, nature and communities. That is a very powerful story on the earth. We wish to guarantee it’s informed effectively and informed urgently.

We’re in search of a journalist with no less than 5 years’ expertise of robust monetary or environmental reporting – or any mixture of the 2 – to affix this core workforce, initially for 12 months.

Concerning the Bureau

The Bureau is the UK’s largest impartial investigative journalism organisation. It exists to tell the general public concerning the realities of energy in in the present day’s world. Our investigations search to reveal systemic wrongs, problem misinformation and spark change. With no company or political agenda, we convey to mild critical points affecting people and communities within the UK and all over the world.

We work collaboratively to maximise the affect of our fact-based reporting and share our findings overtly with native, nationwide and worldwide media shops to achieve as many individuals as attainable.

You possibly can learn extra about us right here.

About our surroundings protection

We have now been reporting on the environmental impacts of the meals and vitality industries for a number of years.

We now have new funding to broaden the scope of this work – bringing in additional workforce members and supporting extra progressive storytelling. We pleasure ourselves on the real-world affect of our tales, and driving lasting and systemic change.

The core UK-based setting workforce on the Bureau consists of an editor, reporters and an affect producer. We additionally work with common freelancers, environmental teams and researchers globally.

The position

It’s an thrilling time to affix our mission-driven investigative journalism outfit and construct on our authentic, high-impact work on finance for fossil gas industries.

The best candidate would have vital expertise of overlaying the local weather disaster and the position of economic establishments within the transition to a low-carbon financial system. They might additionally have the ability to show some expertise of investigative or off-diary journalism.

Please observe: in the event you possess some however not all of the attributes we checklist under, please nonetheless take into account placing in an utility. This checklist is a information, not a definitive set of necessities, and we’re joyful to think about proficient and enthusiastic candidates who don’t meet the complete checklist.

Expertise and abilities

• Confirmed observe report of robust monetary journalism
• Not less than 5 years’ journalism expertise
• Appreciable investigative or long-form journalism expertise
• Good contacts within the fields of finance, setting and enterprise
• Understanding of media legislation and journalism ethics
• Diligence and a focus to element
• A collaborative workforce participant
• A ardour for accountability journalism

Fascinating expertise and abilities

• Environmental or local weather reporting background
• Information journalism abilities
• Investigative reporting
• Good story concepts

This can be a full-time position, with a hybrid working association between house and our London workplace. Nevertheless, the Bureau is dedicated to supporting individuals who require a extra versatile method to working, and dealing preparations are open to dialogue.

The Bureau is dedicated to being an inclusive and numerous employer offering alternatives for all, the place folks can come to do their greatest work. We actively encourage purposes from folks from BAME communities, deprived backgrounds or different teams presently underrepresented within the media business.

To use

Ship a CV and overlaying letter to [email protected] by 19 September 2022

Interviews can be in early October.

Please additionally fill out our equality monitoring kind right here, which is nameless, so we are able to higher observe who we’re reaching.