Medical Copy Editor, Examinations

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE BOARDS OF NURSING, INC. (NCSBN)

OPEN POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT – JOB POSTING: #1024

POSITION TITLE / BAND: Medical Copy Editor, Examinations

STATUS: Full time / Exempt

REPORTS TO: Senior Manager, Examinations

DIVISION: Examinations

LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois

ABOUT NCSBN

The National Council States Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is a not-for-profit organization whose membership includes the nursing regulatory bodies in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, four U.S. territories, 9 Canadian Provinces, and 27 international jurisdictions. Our mission empowers and supports nursing regulators in their mandate to protect the public. NCSBN promotes leadership, excellence and innovation in addressing local and global regulatory and healthcare challenges through strategic alliances and partnership with its members and other organizations, both public and private.

NCSBN is engaged in a transformative process to better support its strategic direction and initiatives focusing on its mission to empower and support nursing regulators in their mandate to protect the public. The building blocks of achieving NCSBN’s vision of leading regulatory excellence are encapsulated in the following four focusing concepts:

• Collaboration
• Performance Measures and Metrics
• Governance
• Data and Technology

These focusing concepts require NCSBN to gain and maintain individuals with key skills related to communication, change management, performance management, quality improvement, policy, board development, strategic partnering, data analytics, and economics.

JOB SUMMARY

Supports the organizational mission and vision by contributing medical editorial expertise to the Examinations Department. Reviews all exam items to ensure correctness and appropriateness in style, grammar, spelling, clarity, and format. Makes appropriate recommendations to ensure compliance with current style manual guidelines. Adhere to and support the values and cultural framework developed by the Examinations Department.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reviews and edits exam items for style, grammar, spelling and clarity (multiple rounds of review, including a quality control review) to ensure accuracy.
• Collaborates with internal teams to ensure review and editing of items is done according to timelines and production schedule. Reviews, edits, and fixes raw material of items as the initial step before sending to the content development team. Supports utilization, maintenance, and updates to style guide.
• Provides editorial expertise to review, edit and proofread reports, scientific papers and journals, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations and other department documents to ensure quality and consistency with style guide as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s in English, Journalism or related fields required
• 5 – 7 years of technical editing and proofreading experience
• 5 – 7 years of medical terminology/medical editing experience required
• Knowledge of AMA style
• Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology preferred
• Extremely detail oriented, thorough, and accurate
• Experience supporting and maintaining the integrity of style guides/manuals
• Editing experience with computer-based exams preferred
• Computer Skills: Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint); familiarity interacting with multiple databases

NCSBN BENEFIT HIGHLIGHTS

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Vacation and Sick Time Off
• Holiday Pay
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Staff Professional Development Funds
• Flexible Spending Plan
• Commuter Benefit Plan
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Work Schedules (Hybrid Work-from-Home and On-Site)
• Office Wellness Room
• Office Café and Lounge Area

TO BE CONSIDERED

Interested candidates must submit their resume as soon as possible.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is an equal employment opportunity employer. Decisions affecting employment are considered without regard to disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected characteristic.