Medical Writer - Research - Comprehensive Cancer Center

Mayo Clinic•Rochester, MN

22h

About The Position

This role involves writing original text and creating technical documents for research and reporting purposes within a Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Medical Writer will collect, organize, interpret, and classify information, research, analyze, and edit technical, statistical, medical, and scientific material to ensure accurate document preparation. This includes reviewing grants and investigator-initiated trials before submission. The position also requires project management for writing assignments, mentoring faculty on writing skills to improve funding success rates, and serving as an editor for manuscripts to ensure compliance with formatting guidelines and policies. The Medical Writer will interpret complex information to create clear, concise, and audience-friendly materials for the communications department, ensuring compliance with regulatory and institutional policies. Staying updated on scientific developments and best practices in scientific writing, grant development, and research development is crucial. Regular engagement with MCCCC leadership and principal investigators for outlining, communication style confirmation, and decision parameters is expected. The role also involves working with leadership to obtain approvals and assemble abstract collections for scientific conferences and meetings.

Requirements

Master's degree preferred. A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) is required, preferably in the field of bio-medical science, lab or nursing.
Minimum of 5 years experience in a medical or complex administrative setting required.
Exceptional interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
Required to maintain confidentiality of information, demonstrate good decision-making and judgment and have attention to detail and follow-through skills.
Must be willing to adapt within a rapidly changing environment.
Must be able to manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment and exercise appropriate judgment and organizational skills when prioritizing projects and tasks.
Must have the ability to work independently in ambiguous situations under pressure and have strong coping skills.
Must be dependable, self directed and able to take the initiative to organize and direct personnel in the various aspects of research studies.
Must be proficient in the use of computers, Microsoft applications and databases.
Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills and have the ability to effectively and independently manage a large workload with minimal supervision.

Nice To Haves

Previous research/education background with IRB and/or a regulatory/legal environment preferred.
Medical writing, data management, comprehension of complex structures, continuous improvement and project management skills are preferred.
Science-related doctoral degree
Knowledge of basic, clinical, translational and population research
Experience with business consultation and project management
Strong customer focus, trust-building, communication, critical thinking, and influencing skills
Demonstrated experience writing successful grants to the National Institutes of Health (especially R01, P01, P30, and P50 mechanisms)
Familiarity with NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (P30) applications
Experience with other federal funding agencies (e.g., CDMRP/DoD), major foundations, limited submissions, and philanthropic proposals
Strong understanding of the scientific and administrative components of multi-project or team science grants (e.g., SPOREs, P01s, U01s)
Strong interest in scientific publishing
Exceptional communication skills and superb attention to detail
Ability to write in a clear, concise, and accurate language that can be understood by technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to generate graphical abstracts for grants, organizational diagrams, and other graphics related to effective visual communication
Ability to understand complex scientific information, theories, and practices
Ability to travel as necessary

Responsibilities

Write original text and create technical documents and other materials by collecting, organizing, interpreting, and classifying information for research and reporting purposes.
Research, analyze and edit a variety of technical, statistical, medical, and scientific material to ensure the accurate preparation of documents; including reviewing grants and investigator-initiated trials prior to submission to funding agencies or regulatory review.
Assume role of project manager for writing assignments, which include project planning, time management, keeping team members informed and on task, and submitting finished projects on time and in specified format.
Mentor faculty on their writing skills to increase the funding success rate.
Serve as editor for manuscripts to ensure they are drafted in accordance with MCCCC formatting as well as within the reporting guidelines and policies of the respective grant or journal.
Interpret technical, medical, and scientific information and write clear, concise and audience friendly (public and medical professionals) news articles and other key materials for communications department.
Assure compliance with regulatory and institutional policies as applicable.
Stay up to date with cutting-edge scientific developments, both conceptual and technical, and scientific writing best practices and innovations in scientific writing, grant development and research development to continuously improve best practices.
Engage in regular discussion with MCCCC leadership and principal investigator(s) to draft outlines, confirm communication style, and decision parameters.
Work with leadership to obtain approval for and assemble collections of abstracts to be distributed in conjunction with key scientific conferences and meetings.