American Oversight

General

• Monitor news and track other sources to identify emerging issues where American Oversight’s investigations can have the greatest impact
• Craft strategic, litigation-ready public records requests to federal, state, and local agencies aimed at exposing decision-making, funding flows, and political influence.
• Conduct rigorous review of document productions to identify key facts, patterns, inconsistencies, and gaps; analyze documents in context to surface unreported insights and emerging trends, and synthesize findings into clear, accurate, and strategically useful outputs such as newsworthy narratives that advance government accountability or actionable insights that equip partners’ advocacy and litigation.
• Support American Oversight’s external engagement by contributing to meetings, briefings, and background conversations with journalists, advocates, and allies.
• Communicate proactively with government agencies regarding public records requests, triaging priorities and working closely with the Legal team to ensure timely and effective pursuit of responsive materials.
• Support document processing and information management, ensuring incoming records are well-organized, searchable, and accessible.
• Draft public-facing content — including blog posts, reports, talking points, and briefing materials — that distills investigative findings into clear, contextualized, and actionable narratives, as needed.
• Contribute to organizational initiatives and special projects as needed, bringing an investigative lens to emerging priorities and cross-functional efforts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Investigator