Title: Medical Literacy Editor, Patient Engagement
Duration: 9 months
Location: Remote
 
Top 3 must-have skills:

• Ability to edit content
• Good communication skills
• Experience in medical/clinical or STM publishing

 
Summary: The Medical Literacy Editor works with the Patient Engagement Editorial team to ensure Patient Engagement content complies with established templates and adheres to health literacy and plain language principles, standard terminology, style, consistency, grammar, punctuation, and appropriate reading levels. 
 
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Organize and structure new manuscripts and scripts to comply with client templates
• Edit new manuscripts and scripts to comply with health literacy and plain language principles, client style, standard terminology, and for consistency, grammar, punctuation, and ensure the appropriate reading level for documents
• Work as a team to maintain schedule for new and existing documents
• Communicate with assigned clinical reviewers. Query reviewers regarding accuracy of clinical content, current practices and guidelines, new research and technology, and other clinical best-practices and references during the review process for new as well as existing documents
• Ensure documents edited are aligned with other documents in the topic grouping during scheduled review
• Publish new documents and update existing documents, using content authoring tool

    
Essential Qualifications:    

• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, journalism, or related field      
• Working knowledge of the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition, and the AMA Manual of Style, 11th edition 
• At least 3 years’ experience in clinical/medical publishing 
• Strong writing and communication skills 
• Excellent knowledge of clinical/medical terminology 
• Excellent time management and organizational skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines   

 
Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in plain language or health literacy editing        
• Experience communicating with and working with clinical professionals       
• Experience working in a highly matrixed corporate environment      
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing processes and procedures when applicable

 

 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $24.71/hr.