Fact Checker - Cape Town Durban and Pretoria at HSRC

• The Publishing unit of the Human Sciences Research Council requires a freelance fact checker for its scholarly publications. In addition to the responsibilities and requirements set out below, there may be a project-specific brief.

Minimum Requirements    

• Relevant experience in journalism, publishing or an independent writing career.
• In your CV, include a list of projects (state publisher and date of publication as relevant) and your function. Do not exceed twenty items.
• A tertiary qualification in any of the following: humanities, social sciences, economics, hard sciences or information sciences.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Using the manuscript supplied, determine the correctness of the factual statements in the text with the aim to remove content errors before publication.