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About the Role
Guardian Australia is seeking a data journalist with coding and writing skills to join our data and interactives team to create award-winning data and visual journalism.
Responsibilities
- Find and tell stories within simple or complex data using a variety of research and analysis skills.
- Write clearly and quickly for breaking news, explainers, datablogs and investigative reports.
- Create data visualisations ranging from quick, responsive charts to more detailed and complex interactive features.
- Automate data gathering and analysis with Python, R or another language.
- Collaborate with developers, editors and other Guardian Australia journalists on news and special features.
Requirements
- Ability to find and research data sources.
- Proven data analysis skills.
- Use of R, Python or another programming language, particularly for data analysis, scraping, visualisation, and automation.
- Previous experience in designing and building data visualisations and interactive graphics.
- Experience with d3 and svelte is a plus, but not essential.
- Experience in writing news or analysis based on own data analysis.
- Previous experience working as a data journalist is desirable, but not essential for a candidate with strong analysis and visualisation skills from outside the media.
- An interest in new and experimental methods of storytelling.
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to this role.
- A passion for independent journalism and an understanding of our editorial code and values.
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to build effective working relationships with people at all levels, and to collaborate with small team.
- Tactful, adaptable team player.
- Highly motivated, proactive, with strong initiative.
- Efficient, organised and good at meeting strict deadlines.
- Proactively ensure skills up-to-date.
- Share inspiration with team.
- High attention to detail.
- Capable of adapting quickly to a fast changing environment.
- Confident in own capabilities.
- Up-to-speed on the latest trends and technologies.
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Full-time
- Permanent
Benefits
- Employee assistance program (EAP) to support employee wellbeing
- Paid volunteer leave
- Dedicated diversity and inclusion employee groups, action plans (including our Reconciliation Action Plan) and cultural competency training
- Guardian digital subscription
About the Company
- Guardian Australia is part of Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of theguardian.com.
- As a leading global media organisation, we are renowned for our pioneering independent journalism and our award-winning digital products.
- We believe that our role in the Australian media is to give a voice to the most marginalised people in society and value and respect all differences in all people — including people of colour, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from different social classes, people with diverse gender and sexual identities, and people with disabilities (seen and unseen).
- We believe that these communities must be centred in the work we do, bringing a new perspective and a diversity of thought.
- We also encourage flexible working and aim to create a work environment where all employees feel respected.
- GNM Australia Limited (Guardian Australia) is proud to be a fair and ethical employer.
Equal Opportunity
- We value and respect all differences in all people — including people of colour, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from different social classes, people with diverse gender and sexual identities, and people with disabilities (seen and unseen).
- We encourage flexible working and aim to create a work environment where all employees feel respected.