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Posted: 22-Apr-25
Location: Oakland, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: 80,000-95,000
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Salary Details:
El Tímpano is seeking an experienced reporter and newsroom mentor to join our award-winning team as a Senior Health Reporter/Editor.
The Sr. Health Reporter/Editor will produce original enterprise coverage on health issues that impact the daily lives of the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrants. You will examine interwoven systems, policies, narratives, and beliefs that fuel the most complex issues affecting these communities, on topics including healthcare access, mental health, food security, and environmental health, among others. You will also support the Managing Editor to edit and coach other staff journalists and freelancers.
El Timpano is not an ordinary newsroom. For six years, we have earned recognition and inspired emulation across the field of local news for our investment in listening, developing trust, and designing approaches to reporting in collaboration with the Latino and Mayan immigrants we cover and serve. Community engagement is core to how we work and systems thinking guides our coverage. Our reporters will be trained in and expected to utilize community engagement strategies to strengthen and support their reporting, surface story ideas and sources, collect novel data, and ensure their reporting centers and reaches those most impacted.
This position will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Pitch, report and produce feature stories (in English) on news deadlines for digital platforms. Your enterprise coverage will provide depth, context, an analysis of systems and solutions, and compelling storytelling
- Provide other newsroom editorial support (expected to take 10% of the time)
- Work closely with El Tímpano’s service journalism team to ensure that our reporting is not just about Latino and Mayan immigrants, but conducted with them and produces actionable news and information for them
- Partner with reporters and editors from different newsrooms for editorial collaborations
- Occasionally speak at events, in community, and to other media outlets about your reporting
- Like all El Tímpano team members, this position will be expected to take part in occasional in-person outreach
- Other programmatic, editorial, or administrative activities as they emerge to support the needs of a growing non-profit organization
You are a great fit if you…
- Are a bilingual journalist (Spanish-English), with 5+ years’ experience, as well as personal or professional familiarity with Latino immigrant communities
- Demonstrate a sensitive approach to telling stories with, for, and about vulnerable and underserved communities
- Are relentless in your pursuit of justice, accountability and a complex understanding of social inequities through your reporting
- Have strong writing, reporting and interviewing skills, as well as excellent news judgment, and a proven ability to identify and originate stories, report accurately, meet deadlines, and deliver solid reporting
- Have experience using public documents, online research, social media, and other reporting methods to report stories, and are excited about using community engagement tactics
- Enjoy coaching and mentoring other journalists to provide guidance, editing, and support to strengthen their reporting
- Are able to work simultaneously on short- and long-term projects
- Have excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication, including the ability to communicate respectfully and inclusively in diverse environments with colleagues, community members, and external peers
- Thrive in a start-up environment where you are expected to learn and iterate as you go, collaborate with a team and adapt as the organization grows and evolves
- Are passionate about El Tímpano’s mission of informing, engaging and amplifying the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants
Preferred
- Are familiar with the Bay Area, its local issues, and its Latino immigrant communities
- Investigative reporting experience
Some great candidates may not check all the boxes above, and may have valuable skills not included here. If that’s you, please don’t hesitate to apply and tell us why you would thrive in this role. If you have any questions in advance of applying for this position, we encourage you to reach out to Heather Tirado Gilligan (htgilligan@eltimpano.org) to address your questions via email or a brief call.