Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking organisation, is recruiting an Acting Health Editor to cover a period of maternity leave. Applications close 10am Monday, November 25. Salary £41,400 – £56,129 pro-rata per year. Remote working, central London office available.
FullFact say, “If you are interested in applying but not sure you have all the skills, please do apply. We are open both to supporting learning on the job and to rearranging tasks within the team to suit the skillsets of the best applicant.”
About the job
Health misinformation can cause direct damage to people’s health, put communities at risk and impact choices about whether to seek treatment. This is an exciting opportunity to lead our health fact-checking team within the organisation and combat bad information that could put lives at risk.
Full Fact fights bad information. Our team of independent fact checkers, technologists and campaigners works to find, expose and counter it. You’ll shape and develop fact-checking that already gets thousands of media pick-ups each year, reaches millions of readers, and has real impact tackling the harm caused by misleading information.
You’ll use your skills to help make public debate more trustworthy. Our health fact checking has seen NHS England correct information about measles vaccine coverage and the Office for National Statistics change the way it presents data on deaths due to flu or pneumonia, while our fact checking during the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to Full Fact being awarded the President’s medal by the British Academy.
This is a job for someone who wants to both grow an audience and make a difference, working with the support of our Editor and Full Fact’s wider team including communications, policy and artificial intelligence specialists.
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