Copy Editor
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About The Position
We're looking to add a Medical Proofreader/Copy Editor to our team. This new role will manage the quality and accuracy of multi-platform materials and collaborate with editorial, creative, digital, and projects teams to maintain high editorial standards, ensuring that all materials are error-free and follow exacting standards of delivery. This position is fully remote, with the option to work from our NJ-based office, if needed. Come join our close-knit and growing team of talent! In this role, you will focus on editing, copyediting, and proofreading materials at multiple stages, and consult with editors, project managers, and production on clarity, sense, consistency, and accuracy of printed, online, and e-newsletter content. You will manage projects and workflows including estimate of turn times, prioritization, assignment of resources, and coordination of approvals to meet multiple, competing deadlines. Collaboration across multiple departments is essential, and you will be a proactive team player - working to heighten the quality of all relationships, workflows, and deliverables. You will bring extensive experience editing in AMA style (11th edition), AP, and Chicago Manual of Style. Additionally, you will work with various platforms and markup tools including Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Google Docs; knowledge of InCopy and InDesign is helpful. Understanding principles of design, page layout, typography, and text formatting is crucial. You will maintain consistently high standards on complex and varied projects with multiple, concurrent deliverables, working within the style of each brand and project. Ensuring accurate reference citations, number reference, AMA format, tables, charts, figures, etc., is part of your responsibilities. You will provide fact-checking as needed and update and maintain house and brand-specific style guides. Delegating and managing assignments of outside support staff when necessary will also be part of your role. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and proven success meeting deadlines are essential for this position.
