Copyeditor

Medscape is looking for an experienced Associate Content Editor who will be responsible for creating email content, copy editing, proofreading materials and supporting the Content and Account Management teams to deliver high-quality content through medical education programmes.

Medscape Medical Affairs is a new division of Medscape focused on delivering medical education and medical communication solutions. As a new and developing division, the suitable candidate must embrace and contribute to an exciting culture of business growth and development. This is a unique opportunity to become part of a start-up environment within an industry-leading global organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Editing existing and original content that is published globally on our leading healthcare professional site along with other materials, including text, images, and graphics
• Ensuring consistency and correctness in spelling, punctuation, grammar, syntax, and usage per AMA and Medscape house style; applying judicious substantive edits, as well as offering suggestions for improving clarity, format, and flow (all while upholding the author’s voice)
• Revising scientific language for usage, flow, and clarity, as well as ensuring facts, data, and scientific units have been used consistently
• Formatting reference citations according to modified AMA style
• Fact checking, proofreading print collateral and webpages, and conducting other quality control reviews
• Creating copy for email drivers and Medscape Invitations
• Providing insight and guidance to other team members on editorial style, policies, and best practices
• Interacting with Faculty to obtain information required for asset development
• Drafting Faculty contracts, liaising with Faculty to obtain signatures, and managing the Faculty payment system
• Researching, purchasing, cataloguing, and/or distributing our reference materials, images, copyrighted materials, research study reports and publications via various cloud-based databases
• Identifying the need to, and supporting the process to, obtain permission from copyright holders to republish images
• Maintaining friendly and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders by clearly articulating with an effective communication style
• Continuously identifying opportunities for process improvement
• Completing other responsibilities, as assigned

Requirements

• Have a solid editorial background in multiple medical therapeutic areas (eg, oncology, infectious diseases, cardiology, endocrinology, neurology) and in the healthcare industry (pharmaceutical terminology, clinical trial designs, understanding of biostatistics, peer-review journals, etc)
• Be someone who’s comfortable editing in Microsoft Word using track changes, as well as in PowerPoint
• Possess a positive attitude, friendly query style, and who knows how to prioritize multiple deadlines in a high-volume environment and return work on time
• Enjoy the opportunity to write and wordsmith, as needed
• Obtain satisfaction in the accuracy and consistency of your work
• Be a true team player who jumps in and tackles new assignments and looks for ways to help assist colleagues in the department
• Be comfortable in a highly deadline-driven environment, and able to pivot quickly between tasks and adapt to rapidly shifting priorities
• Enjoy leveraging technology to make your job easier

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a life science, English, or journalism, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ related medical/scientific editing experience, preferably in a large medical education and/or medical communications company, and/or professional medical publisher
• Proven medical editing skills, with high level of attention to detail and experience in a broad variety of medical therapeutic areas
• In-depth knowledge of medical/scientific phrasing, nuances, and terminology, including statistical concepts
• Experience with internet technologies and online/electronic editing
• Demonstrated understanding of editorial processes and procedures
• Proficient in AMA style and experience with in-house styles
• Familiarity with PubMed and similar sites to locate scientific publications
• Excellent time management and organizational skills, with the ability to efficiently coordinate and work on multiple tasks simultaneously in a highly deadline-driven environment, while taking into consideration global stakeholders based across multiple time zones
• Ability and desire to meet deadlines and deliver results with minimum supervision by creatively using existing resources in a productive and/or innovative way, to quickly deal with unforeseen issues, and suggesting plausible solutions to ensure that timelines are consistently met
• Self-motivated, possessing a positive attitude and very high energy, with a willingness to accept varied assignments
• Exceptional focus on accuracy, attention to detail, and consistency of work, without being officious
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills
• Excellent computer software skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint Online, Gmail)