Education: Ph.D./M. Pharm/Pharm D or any other Medical degree: BAMS/BHMS/MMBS/BDS/MD
Experience: 4+ years
Position Requirements:
- 4+ years experience in editing, including experience with an online Health, Wellness, News and/or Lifestyle brand
- Acumen to deliver consistently high-quality editorial in multiple formats to capture and maintain the interest of physicians and reflect a high standard of literacy and accuracy
- Editing of individual stories to verify accuracy and reflect good news judgment in a fast paced news environment
- Good organizational ability, good verbal communication skills, attention to detail and the capacity to work effectively under pressure
- Experience creating interactive content and working in a CMS
- Ability to work both independently with minimal supervision and collaboratively as various projects required
- A sophisticated understanding of medicine in general and the medical specialty in detail
- High productivity evidenced in ability to meet daily digital and print deadlines, solve editorial problems rapidly, and perform tasks on schedule to meet embargoes
Role & Responsibilities:
- Assigning and editing high-quality, engaging, and medically-accurate content, particularly in the areas of
- Psychology, Neurology, Allergy, Infectious Diseases, HIV, Dermatology, Rheumatology, Oncology,
- Gastroenterology, Gynecology or Cardiology
- Edit articles to verify accuracy, rewriting as needed as well as evaluating and integrating perspectives from editorial reviewers
- Managing the editorial workflow from start to finish
- Work with freelancers as needed
- Managing multiple projects while meeting tight deadlines
- Analyze traffic metrics and audience engagement as part of strategic editorial planning
- Providing new approaches for sometimes dry or difficult content for professional and consumer audiences
- Collaborating on strategic content with other departments, e.g. SEO Team, Medical Reviewers, Photo Editors, Content Editors, and Strategists as needed
- Review key specialty journals and medical news outlets
- Monitor competing information sources
- Edit relevant daily content for web
- Collaborate with web editors, graphics, art to enhance online content with value-added information such as graphics, photos, video, audio, original source documents, etc.
- Approve articles and subject lines for newsletters
- Collaborate on social media initiatives developed for specialty
