Data Journalist Sustainable Views - 12 month FTC
Data Journalist Sustainable Views - 12 month FTC
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About us
The Financial Times is one of the worlds leading news organisations globally recognised for its authority integrity and accuracy with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.
At the FT curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here youre given the chance to reach millions create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world.
In our warm collaborative culture youll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth career aspirations and wellbeing.
Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. With no fixed path youll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere.
Build a newsworthy career at the FT.
Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion
We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.
The role
Sustainable Views part of FT Specialist is the leading publication for corporate sustainability experts covering policy and regulation related to environmental and social governance globally.
We are looking for a Data Journalist to join the team on a 12 month fixed term contract. This role offers the chance to join a growing editorial team and bring new value to readers in one of the most exciting beats in business journalism.
The successful applicant will be asked to identify unique stories sourced from publicly available and proprietary datasets and tell these stories in an engaging way. You will cover stories such as changes to regulation related to climate change environmental protection and restorationsustainable finance and social issues for a business audience. Your writing should clearlycommunicate the importance of the story to less dataadept readers and your use of visualisation should help to reinforce this.
You will engage with the wider editorial team helping to drive adoption of industryleading data storytelling techniques. In addition to working with publicly available datasets you will also have access to internal datasets including our industryleading repository of sustainable finance legislation.
Key responsibilities
- Work with the editor and journalists to identify emerging news trends in data and datasets that shed further light on themes being identified by the wider editorial team
- Write unique stories based on trends identified in datasets
- Support the wider editorial team and be a champion for highquality data and visual storytelling
Required skills and experience
- Experience or training in data analysis and/or data journalism
- Cleaning functions & sing from publicly available sources and ability to find the story beneath statistics using Excel and R coding; also experience of HTML & GitHub.
- Ability to relate data and statistics to the public interest and communicate clearly to readers with varying levels of data literacy.
- Strong accurate writing skills.
Whats in it for you Our benefits
Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing bestinclass perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave medical cover inclusive parental leave packages subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.
Weve embraced a 50 hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging inperson camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.
Accessibility
We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions email and a member of our team will be happy to help.
Further information
At the FT we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may leverage AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills experience and qualifications.
Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.
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