Fact Checker/Editor

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, often under tight deadlines.
• Review, assess, and provide feedback to ensure POGO’s written projects are accurate, fair, clear, and nonpartisan.
• Assist as needed with proofreading and maintaining POGO’s style guide.
• Collaborate with writers to help their ideas and stories succeed.

This role ensures that POGO's written products are accurate and fair, directly supporting the organization's mission to expose waste, corruption, and abuse of power in the federal government, thereby promoting a more effective and accountable government that serves the public.

• Four years of experience fact checking or researching for a newsroom, nonprofit, or other content-producing organization.
• Demonstrated experience editing a range of content types and ability to fact check emails, op-eds, testimony, reports, breaking news investigations.
• Knowledge of AP style and commitment to accuracy, nonpartisanship, and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated commitment to working collaboratively and to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.

Competitive nonprofit salary commensurate with experience in the range of $68,000-$80,000. Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance; 403(b) employee investment plan with employer contribution; life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage; paid holiday, vacation, and sick leave. This is a full-time, nonexempt, at-will position eligible for remote work within the United States.

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog founded in 1981 that works to expose waste, corruption, abuse of power, and other instances where the government fails to serve the public, championing reforms for a more effective, ethical, and accountable federal government.