Global Integrity, an award-winning international non-profit organization dedicated to tracking governance and corruption trends around the world, is seeking interested journalists, researchers, social scientists, and other experts with a background in governance and corruption issues to prepare its Global Integrity Report: 2008.

The Global Integrity Report is a compilation of in-depth country assessments prepared by local experts that combines qualitative journalistic reporting with quantitative data gathering to produce a powerful "snapshot" of the strengths and weaknesses of national anti-corruption mechanisms. The Report is widely used by development experts and donors; reform-minded governments; private sector investors; and grassroots journalists and advocates to prioritize governance challenges and promote anti-corruption reform efforts.

In January 2008 Global Integrity released its Global Integrity Report: 2007, covering 55 diverse countries around the world. Our goal for 2008 is to generate our innovative assessments for roughly 70 countries. Final country selection has not yet been determined and is influenced by the interest expressed by qualified country experts, all of whom are compensated for their efforts.

Interested candidates should send a CV/resume with full contact information to info@globalintegrity.org no later than May 15, 2008. Please see the Fact Sheet below for further details about the fieldwork.

We look forward to working with you to produce a truly groundbreaking report in 2008.

Nathaniel Heller Managing Director

Marianne Camerer International Director

The Global Integrity Report: 2008 - Fact Sheet

What We Do: Our core product, which we are aiming to produce for 70 countries in 2008, is the Global Integrity Report, itself made up of individual country assessments. The two primary elements of each country assessment are the Integrity Indicators scorecard and the Reporter's Notebook. In each country that we cover, we hire a lead researcher to carry out investigative research (through interviews and document research) to score our more than 300 Integrity Indicators. The Indicators assess the laws, institutions, and mechanisms designed to curb or deter abuses of power in any country; the degree to which those mechanisms are implemented in practice; and the extent to which citizens have access to those anti-corruption mechanisms. In parallel, we hire a lead reporter in the same country to prepare a short (approximately 1,250 words) qualitative "Reporter's Notebook" that highlights, in narrative form, the current climate of corruption in the country — how corruption looks, tastes, feels and smells to the average citizen. Finally, we hire 3-5 peer reviewers (both in-country and out-of-country experts) who blindly review both the Reporter's Notebooks and the Integrity Indicators to contribute additional information, comments, and criticisms of both products — the peer review comments are published as an integral component of the final report. You can find examples of our country reports as well as a detailed description of our methodology and impact on our website: http://www.globalintegrity.org.

Who We Are Looking For: We are seeking qualified and motivated experts to work with Global Integrity as we go into the field in 2008. We are inviting interested journalists, researchers, social scientists, and academic experts from any country with expertise in governance and corruption issues to send a resume/curriculum vitae (including your full contact information and names of three references) to info@globalintegrity.org no later than May 15, 2008. Our experts' professionalism, objectivity, and independence are critical qualifications; a working proficiency in English is also necessary. Reporters and researchers should be currently working in-country; peer reviewers can be both in-country and out-of-country experts. The majority of our experts have at least 3-5 years professional working experience. Candidates should identify their specific country (or countries) of expertise and preferred email address.

Timing: Based on previous field work experience, we anticipate lead researchers and journalists beginning their field work by early-June 2008. Peer reviewers will receive the raw reporting and data for their review beginning in late-August/early-September 2008. Our goal is to release the Global Integrity Report: 2008 in December 2008/January 2009.

Country Selection: The selection of the 70 countries to be included in the 2008 report is not yet final and in part will depend on our ability to assemble a qualified team in each country. As such, we are inviting qualified experts from any country to express their interest in joining our team for 2008. We aim to repeat a number of the countries assessed in our 2004, 2006, and 2007 Reports.

Compensation: We compensate all of our experts for their efforts. Global Integrity contracts with individuals, not institutions, and final payment schedules and deadlines are agreed upon in a contract before work commences. We typically pay our lead reporters approximately US$1,250 for preparing the Reporter's Notebooks, our lead researchers approximately US$2,000 for scoring the Integrity Indicators, and our peer reviewers US$250 for each country assessment they review (some review more than one country assessment and are compensated additionally).