Do you love facts? So does Gapminder, and we are looking for more people like us.

During the past 10 years Gapminder has become world-famous for dismantling global misconceptions and promoting a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. We systematically ask people fact-questions about the world, wanting to reveal and dismantle the largest misconceptions about basic global facts in all kinds of topics, from demography to climate change and the global financing system, and many more.

Today, our free teaching tools reach more than 5 million people across the world each year. We want to reach more people and dismantle even more misconceptions to have a global impact on people’s worldview. With large upcoming projects to do just that, we are now looking for more Ignorance Hunters, people with different backgrounds and expertise, but with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and facts.

About the Ignorance hunting role

In this role you will be digging deep to find facts, which you enjoy. You don’t give up until you find and understand them.

Your responsibility will be to find important and relevant facts, making sure they are correct, and phrase them in simple language and questions.

You have a natural instinct for what the general public might know and what they probably have no idea about. You will find the data behind the published and publicized facts and can look for underlying patterns and correlations with related topics.

Responsibility

You will be working in a team with Ignorance hunters, to independently identify the most relevant facts that can be translated into questions, that will be tested on the public.

Basic qualities and requirements

• You have a basic knowledge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and global development.
• Experience from working with research is an asset.
• You have very good numerical, analytical and fact-checking skills and are able to use them to find interesting facts.
• You have a good understanding of how people think.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Other languages are an asset.
• You are able to clearly communicate and collaborate with team members and external consultants.
• Ability to work independently and to take initiatives.

Location

Anywhere, online (there is office space in Stockholm, Sweden if you live close by)

Terms, to be discussed

• Temporary contract or consultancy contract, with start immediately for a 3-6 months project (could evolve into a position at Gapminder Foundation)
• Full or part time, super-flexible working hours

How to apply

If this sounds interesting, please send in your application 2019-12-19 at the latest by following these steps:

1. Take the Gapminder Test: http://forms.gapminder.org/s3/test-2018
2. Send in a short letter of introduction (max 1 A4) (or very short video!), explaining why you think you fit this job description.
3. Send in your CV (short version) to [email protected]

The position will be filled as soon as possible, so do not wait to send in your application!

 

About Gapminder

Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder fights devastating misconceptions about global development. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics. Gapminder promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. Gapminder collaborates with universities, UN, public agencies and non-governmental organizations. All Gapminder activities are governed by the board. We do not award grants. Gapminder Foundation is registered at Stockholm County Administration Board.

Do you love facts? So does Gapminder, and we are looking for more people like us.

During the past 10 years Gapminder has become world-famous for dismantling global misconceptions and promoting a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. We systematically ask people fact-questions about the world, wanting to reveal and dismantle the largest misconceptions about basic global facts in all kinds of topics, from demography to climate change and the global financing system, and many more.

Data accuracy is absolutely key to us. That’s why we triple-check every fact and number we use.

In the coming weeks and months, we need more fact checkers to help us on a big misconception project. That’s why we are looking for you!

About you and the fact-checker role

Ideally, we are looking for someone with a background in journalism. You can’t be afraid to pick up the phone to lots of experts to ask their opinion about a dataset or a data source.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working with numbers. You don’t have to be a mathematician or statistician, but you have to be able to make simple calculations.

You have to be absolutely committed to accuracy. We need to use the most reliable and also the latest data and it is up to the fact-checker to make sure we have both. We cannot compromise our standards for accuracy.

Because most data has some limitations, we need you to think critically, weighing up the feedback you have received from experts to make a recommendation about how we use the data and, if we do, what we need to include in our public communication in order for it not to be misleading.

Responsibilities

Your responsibility will be to check, double check, and triple check facts with experts. We need to be aware of any doubts or margins of error in the data we use, even if it comes from international NGOs with stellar reputations.

Basic qualities and requirements

• You have a background in journalism or similar
• Knowledge and interest in the Sustainable Development Goals and global development is valuable
• You have good numerical, analytical and fact-checking skills
• You have a detailed and critical mindset
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Other languages are an asset.
• You are able to clearly communicate and collaborate with team members and external consultants.
• Ability to work independently and to take initiatives

Location

Anywhere, online (there is office space in Stockholm, Sweden if you live close by)

Terms, to be discussed

• Temporary contract, with start immediately for a 3-6 months project (could evolve into a position at Gapminder Foundation)
• Full or part time, super-flexible working hours

How to apply

If this sounds interesting, please send in your application 2019-12-19 at the latest by following these steps:

1. Take the Gapminder Test: http://forms.gapminder.org/s3/test-2018
2. Send in a short letter of introduction (max 1 A4) (or very short video!), explaining why you think you fit this job description.
3. Send in your CV (short version) to [email protected]

The position will be filled as soon as possible, so do not wait to send in your application!

 

About Gapminder

Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder fights devastating misconceptions about global development. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics. Gapminder promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. Gapminder collaborates with universities, UN, public agencies and non-governmental organizations. All Gapminder activities are governed by the board. We do not award grants. Gapminder Foundation is registered at Stockholm County Administration Board.

Most people misunderstand how everyday life is for the majority of people in Africa. Even for those in Africa, it can be hard to understand how the billion other people live without travelling to see some of them.

To try to counter the many misconceptions and out-of-date views there are about how people live, Gapminder invented Dollar Street, a free website in which photographers have documented life on different income levels across the world. It started with people’s homes, and will now be extended to include healthcare and education.

Thanks to funding from Code for Africa’s innovateAFRICA programme, Gapminder was able to send photographers out to schools and health clinics in Tanzania.

Itope Clinic, Tanzania

It is an important first step in showing even more pictures of everyday life for people in countries that most people never have the chance to visit, yet often have an opinion of based on what they have seen on TV and read in the news.

Because life on Dollar Street is ordered by income rather than by country, we are currently developing a method to calculate the income or expenditure of schools and health clinics, so we can compare how they look on different levels.

Classroom, Tanzania

In addition, Code for Africa’s funding will also simplify the selection and sharing of photos from Dollar Street for use on social media, websites and by teachers in the classroom, making it even easier to show that income – and not nationality or culture – is the most important factor when it comes to the way people live.

Today we are happy to announce that Gapminder is partnering with Expo 2020 Dubai to “flip your worldview”. We are conducting public knowledge surveys across the world to identify common global misconceptions and we are developing data-driven explanations to replace those misconceptions with fact-based understanding. We hope that this collaboration will let millions of expo-visitors quickly flip their worldviews. An exciting experience that will equip them with an accurate picture of the current state of the world and ongoing global trends, which will let them make better decisions and create positive change for the future.

EXPO 2020 Dubai’s press release says:

Expo 2020 Dubai has announced a collaboration with the Swedish-based Gapminder Foundation to turn Expo 2020 visitors into global champions for change. The news comes as Expo 2020 marks the one-year countdown to The World’s Greatest Show of human brilliance and achievement.

Anna and Ola Rosling will work with Expo 2020 Dubai to create a series of questions to challenge visitors’ understanding of the world. This follows the results of Expo 2020’s Global Optimism Outlook Survey, which highlighted people’s desire for increased communication, knowledge-sharing and cross-border collaboration.

“The world is far more optimistic than is often felt,” said Ola Rosling, Chairman, and Co-Founder, Gapminder Foundation. “The Gapminder Foundation was born to allow people to be able to learn more about the world for themselves in a clear, unbiased manner. We see challenges in the world every day but this, in turn, creates opportunities. The magic happens when the world comes together to inspire change on a global scale, and that’s exactly the intent of Expo 2020 Dubai. Therefore, we’re truly excited to be part of this project, to help people  make better informed choices that lead to positive change for the future.”

The project will be developed between now and October 2020, when Expo officially opens, in collaboration with participating nations. A series of questions will then be placed across the Expo 2020 site, where data will be gathered and transformed into a factual analysis of our understanding and perception of the world around us.

Manal Al Bayat, Chief Community Engagement Officer, Expo 2020 Dubai said: “We are now just one year away from The World’s Greatest Show of human brilliance – one year away from bringing millions of people together with 192 participating nations, in the spirit of optimism, to understand the world around us, and to create and inspire people to build a better future.

“Our collaboration is part of Expo 2020 Dubai’s aim to drive positive and lasting change where it is most needed. That change cannot begin without us knowing more about the world around us, and with those we share it. We are thrilled to have Anna and Ola Rosling with us for such an important milestone, and we look forward to further developing the project ahead of opening next year.”

The Gapminder Foundation offers cost-free teaching material that allows people to develop a fact-based view on global society. The project aims to understand our knowledge of one another today. This reflects Expo’s optimistic purpose to connect millions from around the world to be inspired to create a better future. Working with Novus and IpsosMori, the Foundation polled 20,000 people in 31 countries.

They found that when people were asked a series of eighteen questions about global trends such as average income levels, the number of people aged over 65, or how the global population is distributed across continents, the average respondent got just 2.9 questions right.

By contrast, someone selecting one of three possible responses at random would be expected to score 6 out of 18. This difference demonstrates the extent to which people’s knowledge of wider world can be incorrect.

Expo 2020 Dubai opens its doors to the public on 20 October 2020. For more information, visit www.expo2020dubai.ae

During the past 10 years Gapminder has become world famous for dismantling global misconceptions and explaining a fact-based worldview. Our free teaching tools reach more than 5 million people across the world each year and our plan is to reach many more.

Job Description

During the past 10 years Gapminder has become world famous for dismantling global misconceptions and explaining a fact-based worldview. Our free teaching tools reach more than 5 million people across the world each year. We think that number should be much higher. Therefore we are now planning to build more tools and better services to fight global misconceptions, and that’s why we need you: an experienced product manager who knows how to deliver digital products and other services to different target audiences across the world.

As a product manager, you will start on an experimental project to visualize medicine supply chains in middle and low income countries. You can read more about the project below. Because this would only take up half of your time,  we would like you to spend the rest of the time on our other activities, such as the Corporate Education initiative and the Global Misconceptions Study, among others. You will also be managing or contributing to our other projects.

We need someone who has managed agile software development before, and who has experience working with usability designers. You can set up training programs, guide content producers, negotiate with publishing partners, plan marketing campaigns and launches to maximize the attention from the target audience. And you are good at measuring results with metrics that let you improve the process and find better strategies. You enjoy constantly planning and re-planning, predicting and solving upcoming problems to reach deadlines, and you love facilitating team collaboration to make sure things get delivered on time.

With you on board, Gapminder will invent and deliver new services that should reach hundreds of millions of curious people around the world and help them get a fact-based worldview.

Experimental project, visualising medicine supply chain maturity

The goal is to make potential improvements to a medicine supply chain easy to understand with the aid of photos and videos. So the project seeks to create a Minimum Viable Product (a simple online semi-interactive platform or a mock, for example) based on the Dollar Street framework (more info below) that shows warehouses and their services in different maturity levels. The project started last November and in this role you will be responsible for finishing the project before March 2020.

We’re based in Stockholm, but it is not essential for the  project manager to be there. It is important, however, to be available to travel to Stockholm to meet with our team members on a regular basis.

Basic information about the project

Provisory title: Dollar Street for Supply Chain

Summary: Make visual documentation (photos+videos+questionnaire) of warehouses in different countries to try to illustrate different levels of maturity for the national health supply chain of those countries. Maybe we’ll be able to document a factory,  point of entry, and district clinics as well. Initially, the focus is on the warehouses at the end of the supply chain.

Main tasks:

• Book the visits to the warehouses/clinics/factories in the specific countries that will be part of this project.
• Coordinate the documentation/visit logistics with photographers, consultants and representatives of warehouses/clinics/factories.
• Travel to these countries to oversee the visits.
• Coordinate with Gapminder’s team for them to tag the photos and videos in our experimental online platform.
• Coordinate with video editors, graphic designers and programmers who will create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with the material collected and lessons learned from the project.
• Update Ola Rosling and Gapminder team on a regular basis about the status of the project.
• Update the funders regularly on the status of the project.
• Organise and categorise the material collected and help to analyse it in accordance with the supply chain maturity model.
• Keep track of expenses and activities performed and coordinate with our Head of Finance and Administration on the financial status of the project. Plan for forthcoming activities.
• Write the final report for the project for the funders and help our finance and admin manager to produce the financial report.

Requirements:

• At least two years experience in project/product management
• Ability to work independently and to take initiative
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Required to travel abroad to accompany the documentation of warehouses and other locations
• Excellent written and spoken English. Swedish not required
• Experience of working with a team of software developers is desirable
• Answer all questions from the Gapminder Test correctly, proving that you know the basic global facts

Terms, to be discussed:

• Temporary contract, from September 2019 to end of March 2020
• Full-time, super flexible working hours

How to apply

Send an email to: [email protected], with the following attachments:

• The pdf-diploma you received when you passed the Gapminder Test: gapm.io/test18
• Your CV
• A short letter of introduction (or very short video!), explaining why you think you fit this job description

To understand the Dollar Street framework, watch our co-founder’s TED talk:  See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Job Description

During the past 10 years, Gapminder has become world famous for explaining a fact-based worldview and for teaching Factfulness. We have built a huge global online audience, but most of our ideas have not yet been published: we keep inventing new stuff all the time!

We need a creative person who loves to explain complex content through different types of visuals (e.g. animated infographics). You are excellent at creating content for websites and social media platforms quickly. You will also make sure that all of our materials and outputs are in line with our style guidelines before they are published. You have some experience in making videos and short animations, either by yourself or with external contractors.

You enjoy being in a constant planning and re-planning mode, predicting and solving upcoming problems for future deadlines, and you love facilitating team collaboration to make sure things get delivered in time. If you can make this happen, Gapminder has the channels to reach hundreds of millions of curious people around the world. People who are fed up with the avalanche of overdramatic media reports in their online feeds. People who want to see a fact-based worldview on a daily basis, to reduce unnecessary stress and make better decisions.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for translating our content and the data we work with into amazing visuals:

• Creating full infographics (animated and/or static), charts, simple graphs, gifs and other visual content for interactive experiences or for publication in our digital and print channels.
• Providing the graphic component to our communication packages and reviewing other materials ahead of launches to ensure brand coherence and alignment to our style guidelines.
• Producing templates for online and print materials (e.g. press releases, HTML emails (headers and footers), document layouts, PPT presentations, posters).
• Editing and retouching images.
• Filming, editing and producing short videos for different purposes and channels.
• Collaborating with external contractors for graphic design, animations and video production projects if needed.

Basic Qualifications

• You have at least 2 years of work-life experience.
• You have good numerical and analytical skills and are able to use them to translate data into amazing visuals.
• Your have infographics in your portfolio, with data-driven graphics and easy-to-understand statistical diagrams.
• You are a star using the Adobe Creative Cloud.
• You are structured, organised and have a goal-achieving attitude.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Other languages are
  an asset.
• You are able to clearly communicate and collaborate with team members and external
  consultants.
• You are able to manage many projects at once.

Location

Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden – and you can work from home a lot!

Timing

It is a full time position (on a consultancy basis), which could evolve into a staff position at the Gapminder Foundation. The work will start as soon as possible, when we have found the right person for the job. We will send feedback to all applicants no later than 27 May 2019.

How to apply

Send an email to: [email protected], with the following attachments:

• The pdf-diploma you received when you passed the Gapminder Test: gapm.io/test18
• Your CV and portfolio.
• A short letter of introduction (or very short video!), explaining why you think you fit this job description.

Please note that the persons invited to an interview will be asked to do a test.