The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is looking for an impact producer to join our Enablers team.

It is a critical moment in covering how the UK’s top firms and politicians have enabled wrongdoing and questionable conduct from corrupt politicians, oligarchs and the ultra-rich across the world – a subject coming under unprecedented scrutiny in the wake of the West’s economic crackdown against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

The Bureau is looking for an impact producer to help turn our reporting into concrete action – helping inform public debate, spur legislative action and more.

About The Bureau & The Project

The Bureau is the UK’s largest independent investigative journalism organisation. It exists to inform the public about the realities of power in today’s world. Our investigations seek to expose systemic wrongs, challenge misinformation and spark change. With no corporate or political agenda, we bring to light serious issues affecting individuals and communities in the UK and around the world. We work strategically and collaboratively to maximise the impact of our reporting and share our findings openly with local, national and international media outlets to reach as many people as possible.

About the enablers project

We have been reporting on how London’s elite professions have been serving as enablers to overseas interests for several years now, including campaigning for the release of the Russia report in 2019.

Our Enablers project, launched in the summer of 2020, investigates how top-paid business executives, lawyers and political advisers in the UK are enabling oligarchs, dictators and criminals around the world. This story has gone untold for too long.

A lot of mainstream reporting has been done on the crimes, abuses and financial misdeeds of malicious foreign states and wealthy individuals – but very little has been brought to light about the lawyers, PR advisers, accountants, estate agents and bankers that take care of the details and help them get away with it.

About the impact team

At the Bureau we want our journalism to spur change and we believe we need people in our team to ensure this happens. We have impact producers in our global health and environment teams, and community organisers on our Bureau Local team. These are relatively new and innovative roles in journalism and serve to drive change among institutions, business and affected communities with our work. We are not looking for someone that has been an impact producer before, but someone that has the broad-ranging skills to drive journalistic impact forward in this vital area.

The Role

This is an opportunity to build a new phase of a high–profile project at a time of rapid expansion for our organisation.

We are looking for someone creative and energetic who is passionate about driving positive change through collaborative journalism. You will be excited about reimagining what journalism could and should look like. You will have a keen interest in power structures, visible and hidden, and how to work strategically and thoughtfully within them. You will be a great people-person and communicator.

The Bureau is looking for an individual with experience working in or around Westminster, with clear understanding of parliamentary processes and time spent having worked on legislation in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. A wide contacts book of MPs, parliamentary assistants, select committee clerks, is also essential.

Once in post, the successful candidate will be regularly liaising with MPs and their teams, and briefing them on our investigations, so a strong understanding of how best to communicate, and at what stages of the legislative process to communicate is crucial.

Duties might include, but would not be limited to, identifying and liaising with publishing partners who can reach specific target audiences; helping organise briefings for parliamentarians or NGOs based on our reporting and working with in-country organisations to enable our journalism to connect with and benefit affected communities. You will also ensure that our reporting gets as much pickup from other media organisations as possible.

You will work with the reporting team to help scope stories and the potential they have to drive change; once investigations are underway you will build impact strategies that ensure the journalism reaches audiences in the most useful way.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver impact strategies for the Enablers team’s major investigations
• Help shape and deliver the Enablers team’s overarching goals
• Contribute to story ideation, pitching, development and delivery
• Help shape and test ideas for making our journalism more diverse and inclusive
• Build and manage relationships with communities, organisations and individuals who can benefit from our reporting and/or use it to drive change
• Help ensure our reporting is picked up by other media organisations
• Monitor and evaluate impact of investigations and the project’s work more broadly

Experience and skills

• Experience working in the UK parliament -either House of Commons or House of Lords, or in another role where they are in close contact with MPs and staffers and have direct experience of the parliamentary process
• Network in Westminster – MPs, Lords, parliamentary assistants, clerks, researchers
• Collaborative team player
• A passion for accountability journalism
• Interest in innovation and experimentation within journalism
• Desire to drive positive change
• Great communication skills, spoken and written

Desirable experience and skills

• Newsroom or journalistic experience
• Ideas for imaginative storytelling
• Background in an enablers-related field
• Presenting and public speaking
• Running campaigns

The role is intended to be primarily based in our London office – which operates a hybrid working policy – but there is room for flexibility. The Bureau is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a diverse, inclusive and adaptable environment where people are encouraged and supported to do their best work.

We are particularly interested in supporting and encouraging applicants from groups that are under-represented in the media. This is envisaged as a full-time role but we are open to a four-day-a-week role or flexible working to help to support parents and carers.

Salary guide: £32,000–£36,000, depending on experience, on an initial two-year contract.

To Apply

Send a CV and covering letter to enablerstjob@tbij.com by 18 April 2022. Please mention Journo Resources when you apply, it really helps us out.

Please also fill out our Equality Monitoring Form here, which is anonymous, so we can better track who we are reaching.