Impact Program Assistant

About the Role

Impact Program Assistant

Remote

Location: The role is remote and location is flexible, assuming some overlap with the Central European timezone.

Position overview

A fixed-term, one-year position on OCCRP’s Impact Team, to help expand the impact of our investigations and data on combating corruption and organized crime, through partnerships, outreach, and analysis.

Job description

This position offers the opportunity to work with some of the leading opponents of corruption and organized crime, designing and executing innovative projects and collaborations. 

This person would join OCCRP’s Impact Department which works to expand the use of investigative journalism by groups dedicated to protecting democracy and combatting corruption and organized crime. 

The role is remote and location is flexible, assuming adequate overlap with the Central European timezone. 

The term of the position is one-year. Subject to future funding and high performance, an extension would be considered.

Duties and responsibilities include: 

• Support the operations of a project aimed at accelerating data-focused cooperation between investigative journalists and academic researchers;

• Coordinate activities with civil society organizations on the theme of identifying assets acquired with illicit funds and the associated asset recovery efforts;

• Encourage follow up on OCCRP network investigations by initiating outreach and cooperative activities;

• Contributions to grant reporting, fundraising, network mapping, contact organization, and other tasks as assigned.  

As part of a small team, the work will include everything from program design and the analysis of investigative reporting to administrative tasks related to contracting, managing the team’s contacts, and other activities.

Useful expertise and experience would include: 

• A Bachelors degree, with Masters level qualifications preferred, in a relevant field such as political science, economics, criminology, journalism, etc. 

• A robust understanding of international corruption, organized crime, and/or illicit finance, and various anti-corruption responses, with an understanding of asset recovery issues an added bonus;

• Familiarity with investigative journalism;

• Excellent coordination skills, with experience conducting collaborative projects and working in international teams;

• Strong research and English-language writing skills;

• Highly organized and able to improve how the team tracks its various contacts and interactions;

• Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects.