Seasonal Fantasy Football Researcher

<div class="job-details__description-content basic-formatter" data-bind="html: pageData().job.description"> <p>The Fantasy Football Researcher helps to drive the development and distribution of fantasy research throughout NFL Media platforms, ensuring editorial consistency and factual accuracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drives the research and dissemination of fantasy football research throughout NFL Media, including within NFL.com articles, podcasts, FAST shows, and NFL Pro within NFL+ Premium</li> <li>Contributes to daily content distribution plan that pushes targeted research materials to content creators throughout the Media Group</li> <li>Develops original storylines, notes, nuggets and “boards” that provide statistical context around fantasy football topics, matchups and news</li> <li>Recognizes and anticipates league and team trends, applying appropriate statistics to create content</li> <li>Ensures factual accuracy of all content generated</li> <li>Works within our standards for high quality research content while maintaining tireless work ethic on a consistent basis</li> <li>Works closely with producers, editors, digital team, talent and writers</li> <li>Utilizes broad football knowledge and awareness of the NFL Media Group’s platform to anticipate the research needs</li> <li>Collaborate with research team on best practices regarding both dedicated show research and general research support</li> <li>Recommends changes to enhance current research methods and standards</li> <li>Must be able to adhere to strict deadlines and react to breaking news</li> <li>Strong writing and editing skills are required</li> <li>Strong attention to detail skills are required</li> <li>Must be able to communicate information accurately</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>1-3 years professional experience working within the fantasy football content space, statistics or covering sports events and news</li> <li>Undergraduate degree</li> <li>Must have strong foundation of knowledge about football statistics and fantasy football scoring systems and league types</li> <li>Must be technologically savvy, with strong command of Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel</li> <li>Must have strong familiarity with digital and social platforms</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience in sports media</li> <li>Previous work experience working for or covering fantasy football</li> <li>Experience generating your own fantasy football content</li> <li>Proven ability to