Acting Health Editor

Remote first within the UK, with an office available in Central London and regular monthly team meetings in the office., 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. 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 Job Definition Your job is to lead our work combatting health misinformation. You'll lead a team of three health fact checkers (two health policy journalists and a clinical fact checker) to cover all aspects of health misinformation circulating in the UK. You'll need to work fast, and make quick, confident and smart decisions on the health stories that matter as we seek to fact check the misinformation identified by our monitoring. You'll also need to prioritise ruthlessly, ensuring we focus our limited resources on the stories where we can really make a difference. You'll organise our health monitoring, commission and edit fact checks to tight deadlines, and work with colleagues from across Full Fact to ensure we identify and tackle underlying solvable problems. We're ideally looking for candidates with significant experience as an editor or journalist, and preferably with some knowledge of either health policy or clinical information, but prior fact-checking experience isn't necessary. You will need to be able to quickly master and explain tricky, nuanced topics in clear, concise copy - and must have an eye for a story. You'll also need to be able to manage, motivate and mentor a small team of dedicated journalists. Outcomes

• Leading Full Fact's fact checking work on health, including health policy and medical misinformation
• Running the health team within editorial (with line management responsibility for three fact checkers)
• Assigning work on health fact checking, setting deadlines and ensuring they are hit
• Reviewing and signing off health fact checks and other content, ensuring everything we publish is of a high standard and escalating to the editor or chief executive where needed
• Overseeing the health fact checking team's production process, including tracking our workflow day-to-day, ensuring we hit publication targets and updating on progress daily
• Leading our day-to-day health monitoring process to an agreed plan, to ensure we are covering a balanced range of sources, including politicians, the mainstream media and social media.
• Helping edit other fact checks and editorial content, including from our politics and news & online teams
• Working closely with other teams within Full Fact to identify where we can take action, for example by asking for corrections to be made or standards improved
• Representing Full Fact in the media, as required
• Leading Full Fact's engagement with the health sector, and engaging with external third parties to further the work of Full Fact and share expertise
• Working on other longer-term or strategic projects
• Evaluating and reporting on our work to combat health misinformation, The interview panel will be Steve Nowottny (Editor) and Claire Milne (Health Editor) and Grace Rahman (News & Online Editor).
The process starts off with an anonymised covering letter and CV. This will be read by at least two people to produce a shortlist for interview. The first round interviews will be a phone (not video) interview, lasting no more than half an hour, at a time that's convenient for you. We will record it so at least two people can review each interview to decide who we invite back for the second round. The recordings will be deleted at the end of the process. The second round will include a structured interview and a timed task which assumes no prior knowledge. The task can be completed prior to the interview, at a time that most suits you. The interview will be with the full panel by video and last no more than an hour. We'll tell you everything you need to know to prepare, including anything we'd recommend reading in advance.


• You are committed to the political neutrality of our work and have a good understanding of impartiality (please see the rules on our website).
• Understanding of public debate in the UK and sensitivity to the political context we work in.
Job skills/competencies
• Political impartiality and sensitivity
• Strong research, writing and editing skills
• Strong understanding of public debate in the UK and sensitivity to the political context Full Fact works in
• Good communication skills, and a track record of communicating with a non-specialist audience in any format
• An understanding of Full Fact's styles and principles, and an ability to translate this into all of the work produced by the editorial team through writing and reviewing
• An ability to understand and master new topics rapidly
• Significant experience working in journalism or a related field with demonstrable editing experience
• Understanding of digital channels, audiences and formats
• Ideally - good understanding of health policy and/or clinical topics
• Ideally - line management experience
  
  Full Fact is the UK's independent factchecking charity.
We provide free tools, information and advice so that anyone can check the claims we hear from politicians and the media.

£41,400 - £56,129 pro-rata per annum, Starting salary of £41,400 - £56,129 pro-rata per annum depending on experience. Workplace Pension Generous holidays
• 25 days holiday pro rata plus bank holidays.
• In addition, we close the office and stop working for a period between Christmas and New Year.
• Day off for moving home.